Eventful, to say the least…

It seems that I have a story to go with every shoot lately! And this shoot was certainly no different. We were about 3/4 done with the shoot, and we had just headed back to our vehicles for a possible location change, when all of a sudden—BAM!, a huge noise rang through the air. We turned our heads and saw a terrible car accident about 50 feet from us. My senior’s mom and I both called 911 and heard kids in one of the vehicles screaming and crying (from the shock…they weren’t injured) so we headed over to help in any way we could. Both drivers were very shaken up, and soon an ambulance and firetruck came and the medics took over.  After they arrived, I took this photo:

It was a scary situation, and it took my adrenaline a couple hours to subside.

So here are the beautiful photos from that shoot. These are what make this session memorable to me. They are some of my favorite senior images ever, especially this first umbrella photo. Sofi, I love your sense of style and I had a wonderful time photographing you. Hopefully next time it will be a less eventful meeting!

Mosquitoes Beware

I know this senior thought I was crazy when I lathered on the 10 gallons of bug spray, but when I explained the inhalation/mosquito attack situation from my previous shoot, she understood I was crazy like a fox, not just plain crazy. (Grant told me to write the fox part. He is so lame.)

Lindsey, I hope you have a wonderful senior year, and I know that whatever path you choose will be a blessing to many people.

Next time = Bug spray

This shoot was a memorable one. Everything was going just fine until we decided to try a new location. It was an old, run-down farm that I had been wanting to use as a location for a while. I had finally tracked down the owner and gotten permission to shoot there, so we decided to try it out that evening. Well, no one warned me about the millions of mosquitoes that would start swarming me as soon as we got on the property! In fact, they were so bad (like 20-30 on me and around me at a time) that right after I took this shot…

I inhaled one.

Not only was this highly embarrassing (hacking up a lung in front of my clients), but also super disgusting! The feeling of bug-in-windpipe did not go away easily.

Luckily, when we left the property, the mosquitoes stayed there!

Here are the rest of the photos…

Copycat. Me. I am a Copycat.

When I arrived to this session a few weeks ago, we were looking through this little guy’s clothes that mom had picked out for the photos, and I saw this great little Paul Frank sweatshirt. I said, “Oh yay! We will totally do some in this, I love Paul Frank stuff.” Then she proceeded to tell me that Paul Frank had a limited time line at TARGET. You are kidding me!!! (I believe I said this about 10 times.) Wait, Paul Frank boys clothes…in my price range?  D o e s .   N o t .  C o m p u t e .

So this is where the copycat part comes in:

After the session was over, I immediately drove to Target to buy Paul Frank stuff for my boys. And it felt dang good!

Here is proof. Ian and Cy’s picture on the first day of school, lol!

Now here are the photos from the session! You may recognize this family from a maternity and a newborn shoot last year…

The Queen’s Birthday

Happy Birthday to Queen of the Castle magazine! I appreciate all that they do for the women of the Chippewa Valley, and the opportunities I have had to work with them over the years. I had the privilege of shooting the cover of their latest issue, and had a blast doing it. So if you get a chance, pick up a copy and check it out!