With all the travel and school craziness lately, I totally missed posting some of my winning prints! For July, at the Tallahassee Professional Photographers Guild meeting, I won the categories of Portrait of a Group, Portrait of a Woman, and Commercial. This month, I won for Portrait of a Man, Portrait of a Child, and my child’s image was selected to win Overall Print of the Month! Yippee!
I can already tell you I will embarrass Jonathan with this post. 🙂 I had the same thought over and over as I worked on his images– he is a real life Ken doll! He is obviously a cute guy, but more than that he so kind, down to Earth and genuine. He is easy to laugh and has such a wonderful view of the world. For his senior portrait session, he brought along all of his interests and just let Olyn and I be creative. In other words, he was the perfect senior guy client!
Janay’s mom called us to schedule her senior portraits and mentioned that they had moved from Oklahoma in the last year. Most people around Tallahassee have no idea how important senior portraits are in other states– there are plenty of states where senior portraits are as important as wedding photography. Oklahoma is definitely one of those states, so I was really honored that Janay selected us to create those images for her. We had a great warm session at Dorothy B. Oven Park and we made Janay practice everything she had seen on America’s Next Top Model!
It isn’t often that I have to miss a portrait session here at the studio, but the scheduling for Elyse’s senior portraits meant it couldn’t be helped. Olyn always has so much fun with seniors (mostly because he refuses to grow up), but I love the job he did on Elyse’s senior studio s
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Jordan is an angel. Well, her mom might not agree to that, but any senior who is willing to endure countless mosquito bites during her session without a complaint must be an angel! 🙂 Through the heat and the bugs, Jordan was a total trooper and I think we got some great images despite those challenges! 😉