Strong

Hello everyone yes its a freaking miracle I am blogging twice in one week, amazing I know.  I have posted previously about my Little Black Dress shoot that I did last Sunday and how much fun it was, but I wanted to bring something else out of that shoot as well.   As a woman that's trying my best to be strong and independent,  I wanted to bring that out in the girls that Rep for me.  So many times these girls go through things that may keep them from becoming the dynamic people they were destined to become.   I wanted my girls to think about this and try to figure out who they were and what defines them.   I asked each of the girls to come up with a t-shirt that had a saying on it something that explained who they were or what defines them as a person.  They did such an awesome job and as much fun as we had doing the shoot I also hope that the girls learn that being themselves, being strong  and trying their hardest is all that matters.  

Here are my Reps portraying strength and beauty and well just themselves.

2016 / 2017 Senior Reps

Well here it is everyone the new Rep season has officially started and yesterday we shot out of the gate with a bang!!  I decided on a little black dress theme and I think the girls really pulled it off!!  Because the kids were going to be all in black and because I always seem to go with a nature type of shoot I decided to bring a bit more of an urban vibe out in the pics.  We ended up in St. Louis at The Graffiti Wall and man was it a stunning location, the riot of color really set off the girls (Oh and Aimer) to perfection..  We all had so much fun and everyone is ready for the next shoot.

Aimer

Ariann

Ashley Nicole

Ashley

Tori

Stephanie

Lily

Landri

Bailee

Alyssa

Brittany

Danielle

Kimberly

Rachel

Rebranding and Rebuilding

Rebranding and Rebuilding

Hello everyone I know it has been a super long time since I have posted anything but hopefully those times are a changing LOL.  Over the summer I decided to try and reboost my brand especially for my senior side of the business.  I have updated my branding colors from a pastel color palete to a more vibrant hot pink and bronze concept that I think fits me and my seniors to a tee.  As you can tell by my blog redesign I have done some work over on this side of things as well as to create a new website.. haloandwingsphotography.com  I am pretty proud of it and would love to see as much traffic on the site as possible.  

I think today I will post a compilation of shots from my various concept shoots and just begin again after the new Rep shoot that is coming up this Sunday.  So until then here are a few of my favorites from my decades shoots.  We managed to portray the 1920's, 1940's , 1950's and the 1960's and 70's.. Enjoy!

1920's

1940's (we are fudging it a bit with this decade)

1950's (yeah we went there a fun grease inspired theme)

1960's or 70's (however you want to think about it LOL)

Two month hiatus

Happy New Year!!!!  Its a new year and I vow to blog something every week.  I have some super exciting plans for 2015 and several of those are now in the works.  But since I have neglected this poor old blog for nearly two months I do have some catch up to be doing.

The first thing I want to catch everyone up on is what the last two months have consisted of photography wise so with out further ado here is the Ray Family:  

Ed, Sherri, Tori, Tanner and Lucky are the Ray Family and since Tori works for me as a Rep they got the royal treatment yeah I know bologna... well it sounds good anyway LOL...   I had such a great time with The Ray's and it was a beautiful day in December and we all enjoyed soaking up the rare sun and warmth.  Here are their images enjoy.

It's supposed to be snowing!

Hello all!  I finished up my last weekend of shooting this past Sunday and I am anxious for a wee break from taking pictures.  That doesn't mean I am abandoning anyone but it does mean I am taking a break from the weather by staying inside lol.    I kept telling the girls that I would still be shooting but that we were supposed to get snow and it was going to be really cold, it didn't phase these girls at all.  Saturday the girls and I went into St. Louis to see what mischief we could get into and hopefully to take some epic images.  Sadly no mischief but we did get some epic shots.  We ended up taking advantage of Forest Park and its many nooks and crannies to take some beautiful images and we got to scout out the spectacular grounds of the Lemp Mansion and Brewery.  I hope you love these shots as much as I do.

Saturday. 

Sunday...

Sunday we decided to explore the SIUe campus and we literally froze while doing it, well not literally but it sure felt like we were freezing at times lol.  What troopers these girls were they were game to keep going even when I was ready to throw in the towel.  You all have met Landri but I was privileged to take pictures of a few new girls this go around so I hope you will give them a little face book love.  Enjoy!