Beautiful senior portraits (be prepared for a little hair envy)

This fall I did a whole lot of family photography, but I also really enjoyed a few senior portrait sessions. This gorgeous senior lives in Gallup but came to Albuquerque for senior portraits. I met her sister a few years ago for her senior portraits and she now attends UNM. I was so happy to get to see her again - still just as beautiful :) - and it's always a great idea to have a friend or sister or mom (or any combination!) who can make you smile or laugh when you get senior portraits taken.

 

We mostly stayed in the bosque, but on our way we fell in love with this fence covered in red leaves. We must have picked the perfect day for this one.




She wanted a picture lying in colorful leaves, but unfortunately all the leaves on the ground were brown, brown, brown. We tried! I love this one almost as much as I would have loved the leaves.






They also wanted some studio portraits, so lots of variety in their final gallery.


She played soccer too, like her sister did, and we had some fun with a ball. They had just finished up their season.








Some great outfits, amazing hair (so jealous), and a really fun girl to work with!


Thank you so much for making the trip to meet with me!


If you are interested in senior portraits, I'd love to chat with you and discuss it! We can meet in person or talk on the phone, or you can email me. I have more information about my senior graduation photography here, or if you like the locations we used for his senior portraits, you can see these and many more ideas here.

One of my funniest fall photography moments

I'm having a lot of fun looking through my sessions from this last fall! This family's session is one of my favorites from the season, you will see why. I first met them a long time ago... I think this was the first time I got to photograph them, back in 2009, wow.

We have gone to many great places for pictures over the last 5 years but we had never gone to Old Town, one of my favorite locations for photography. We moved pretty fast and they did a great job.
 







Their mom had some really cute props, which she told me about so we were sure to use one of them (do you sense a little foreshadowing?) towards the beginning of the pictures. So fun!


We kept going, sometimes Old Town is like that because there are lots of fun places for photography.



I don't go for too many serious pictures, but I love this. Darling.




And we kept going, and going...


And THEN, when these great kids were really all done with pictures, I was reminded of their mom's other cute props. Oh no! It is not easy to get a happy group shot of three tired kids. My favorite part of the photo session was this picture below - the younger daughter was NOT happy to hold the "Y" (she wanted to hold the "J" and for some reason that was not working). I just love seeing her disgusted face while they are holding up "JOY".


And it would not be my favorite moment if we didn't also get this shot. So cute, great job guys!


If you also love Old Town, I'd love to meet you there for a family or child photography session! Give me a call or email and we can chat about a session for you or your family. Or if you'd like to see other options, I have lots of other location ideas for portrait sessions here.

Darling newborn baby portraits

There were so many fun and beautiful photography sessions this last fall, when I had zero time to blog! I will put some of them up now, since fall really went by in a blur.

I enjoy this family so much! I met them about a year and 1/2 ago, and their baby's one year old portrait session was a photographer's dream. You can see it here. I smile whenever I see him in his tie (clean or covered in frosting).

Well, now he has a baby brother! I love it when awesome families add one more, because it just makes the world a better place.

This little guy did such a good job at his first photo session too! He slept a bunch and was happy to have us pose and move him around.
 









Sometimes the trickiest part is getting a good picture with both a two year old and a newborn. These guys did great!








If you're interested in a newborn portrait session, I'd love to talk to you about it! Give me a call or email. There are a few things to know in order to make it as successful as this one was.

I have a bunch more baby photography, along with some info on my baby plan options, on this blog page - I offer four different options for baby photography collections. If you are interested for yourself, or if you have a friend or family member you might like to gift a collection to, I have an online magazine with more information that you might like to see. You can send me your email address below and I will email you a link right away.

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Marching band!

I was asked if I'd like to help with a fundraiser for the Volcano Vista High School marching band. Yes! I certainly would. What a fun experience for me - I got to meet some really great high school kids, enjoyed the cool uniforms, and I loved the instruments.

I don't know how they wear those hats, that would be tricky for me. But then my only marching band experience was in middle school, where funnily enough my husband and I marched in the same band at the same time (but did not know each other for many more years) to a rousing version of "Party All the Time". I bet you didn't know that that song had been arranged for marching band. It's a real shame that there was no youtube back then... or is it???

Anyway - here are some awesome kids and some great instrument pictures:








It was a fun challenge for me to come up with ideas for posing that would be interesting and artistic.


I wanted to get all the students a decent variety of proofs to choose from, including a good straight shot,


and I also wanted to show their love of music if I could.












The tuba players were especially impressive. That is a lot of instrument to haul around!








Although I went to a regular public high school, somehow I got through the whole thing without ever really knowing about the color guard. I guess I did not pay attention at half time or something. So it was a fun surprise to me that they toss and catch rifles.




I also really love to incorporate instruments and hobbies into my senior portrait sessions! You can get more information about my senior photography at my website here. If you're interested in a senior session, give me a call or email for more information - I'd love to chat with you about it!