Velvet Collinsville HS Senior

Hello all so nice to see you here on my blog again.  I wanted to say a few things about one of my Reps, Velvet is a fun, sweet and silly girl who I really hadn't gotten to spend as much time with as I wanted.  Velvet is very special to her family, she is the first girl in 50 years to graduate from high school which I find amazing and wonderful.  She is a goofy girl with a lightness to her spirit that makes me so glad that the little bit of time we did get to spend together was so much fun and just special.  I really hope that you all enjoy her portraits and know that these are so special to her family and a true momentous occasion.

Bri Senior 2015 Collinsville HS

Hello everyone I thought I would stop in on this freezing cold Saturday evening and tell you about this beautiful senior I was privileged to capture a few weeks ago.  Bri is a 2015 senior from Collinsville.  She is enrolled in their CNA program and is such a sweet girl.  I had so much fun capturing her fun personality and her beauty.  I know she loves her pictures as much as I do.

Senior Reps

My Senior Girls.

I don't know if you all know this but this is my fourth year having a Rep program.  I spend a lot of time with my Reps and enjoy most of it lol... The first year I had my program I had one beautiful Rep who I still see and rely on, maybe not as a rep but as a friend.  Eva comes to my home several times a week as a tutor to my oldest son and I love getting to see her and have a relationship with her even after all this time.  In my years having the Rep program I have had a lot of kids sign up to be reps, some have worked out and some have not worked out at all but I have learned something from each and everyone of them.  I have improved my craft and have developed long term (I hope) relationships with the kids.   I am very lucky and really have to remind myself of that sometimes.  This past weekend I was able to spend the morning with two of my current Seniors and I think we had a fun time and it was so special to me to be able to talk and laugh with them in a relaxed setting.  I thought with this blog I would show our time we had together but I also wanted to highlight some of my other Seniors over the years.

A picnic in the woods (1950's thriller)

October's Rep Shoot

This month the Rep's wanted to do a creepy Halloween shoot and while I appreciate the creep factor I still like things to be pretty and to tell a story.  So with that in mind I came up with a shoot loosely based off the Michael Jackson Thriller video. Don't worry there is no dancing involved with the shoot just a cute story that quickly turns dark.  Here are Ashley Nicole as the woman in white, Tori as the little insane girl, Amir as the Boy, Lily as the Girl and Bailee as the evil doll.  My story is called A Picnic in the Woods, I hope the pictures tell my story and I hope you all love it!