Wow, I must say this is one of my favorite sessions, but I want to preface it with the fact that this is my niece, so I’ve had more freedom with her session and we have PLAYED a lot with our time together. We started out in my studio a month ago, then the next day moved to the “graffiti garages” in Tacoma and the last stop (about a week ago) was in The Dalles, Oregon, where she lives and is a senior at The Dalles-Wahtonka High School this year. So, there is a lot of variety in her photos, but that is a good way to describe Sydney. She is the youngest, her older sister is a junior in college, so Sydney is the last at home and is enjoying her senior year, having lots of fun with friends, working hard in her classes, taking some college courses, playing sports, involved in the ASB, and is a member of the 4H (won the top award for her goat at their county fair)…this girl is the whole package! She has goals for her future, ideas about what she wants out of life, plans for the next steps and yet, still realizes that she can balance all the parts of her life to make it work. Can you tell that I think pretty highly of her? Well, I do…and that is not to say that her older sister (Samantha) is not just as amazing, because she is…their parents have done an incredible job raising two beautiful and well adjusted girls who will both be very successful in whatever they do in life!
So, back to Sydney, she is beautiful, tall and graceful, athletic, very social, has a GREAT laugh and very kind and thoughtful…and so in having the privilege of taking her senior photos, I wanted to try and capture all aspects of who she is…hopefully, I have done just that. We had lots of fun, did lots of laughing and goofing around and in the end, I at least love her photos…and hope she does! So, without further ado…here are MANY photos of Syd…as we call her…enjoy!
Sydney has this idea to recreate a photo or something similar to one she saw of Lady Di…I don’t know about you, but I think she is way prettier!
I love Syd’s laugh…so contagious…what a beautiful smile to go with it!
Last shot of the day at the Tacoma graffiti garages…couldn’t resist this shot…good thing it was covered as it was raining….what’s new!
As you can see, we had fun and Syd is tall, so jumping is easy for her and she can get quite high…it was fun and there was lots of laughter during our day in The Dalles!
This old house that Syd was sitting in the doorway of was a perfect setting for our photos…it just seemed to fit her…lots of character and so many stories within!
You can see, we had fun, being silly and showing that serious isn’t always the way to go…
Isn’t Sydney beautiful…what a delight to photograph, a natural beauty who is SO sweet and down to earth!
I love this photo and when I found this quote…it just seem to fit Sydney…and I couldn’t resist adding it to the photo…it all seemed to go together perfectly!
A week ago today I had the pleasure of meeting Isaac who is a senior this year at The Dalles Wahtonka High School and will graduate next spring. Fall around the Northwest can be beautiful, but it can also be “not so nice” and we were fortunate enough to have something “in between” which worked out just great for my session with Isaac, although you will see in the last photos, there were raindrops, but we both persevered and finished up, none the worse for wear! What a nice young man Isaac is, with some great goals and ideas about his future. He plays three sports for school, football, basketball and tennis and is undecided about whether or not to play a sport in college. I’m pretty certain that whatever he chooses, he’ll do well and find a good balance between athletics and academics. Unfortunately, he broke his collar bone in the first football game of the season this year and was hopeful that the doctor would release him to play in the play-off games in the next weeks…I’ve got my fingers crossed for you, Isaac and will check and see if you got the okay! As for college, this young man has some great choices and has been accepted in nearly, if not all, of those he applied to…now the tough part, figuring out just which one is the right now. He’s interested in engineering and from just the short time I spent with him, I can tell, he will be successful in life…he has a confidence about himself that will carry him far in life…a bit quiet, but hey, who wouldn’t be with some strange woman with a couple of cameras and asking you to do all sorts of things! I must say, that it’s not so easy to be on the other side of the camera, so I give props to Isaac (and all my other clients) for sharing some of “themselves” with me and allowing me to capture some special memories of them…for their family and friends!
If you look closely at this, you can see the raindrops…boy, did we ever have good timing! Thank you, Isaac and Marie (mom) for allowing me the opportunity to capture some commerative photos of Isaac!