Class of 2009: Miss Kayla

After rescheduling once due to some nasty weather, and then getting myself lost on the way out to her session, I finally made it to Kayla's house for our session.  We gathered up her clothes and the fantastic chair she wanted to use, and loaded up the car.  The destination: her boyfriend's alpaca farm.

The property was beautiful.  The light was gorgeous.  The model was perfect.  The temperature could have been a few (dozen) degrees warmer, but we faked it.  I just love shooting high school seniors who aren't afraid to get a little crazy.  Kayla's personality really shines through in her photos.  Her plan is to end up at the Portland Art Institute to pursue one of the greatest majors ever invented.  She has a passion for photography, and we were going to get some shots with her camera, but the light faded too quickly.  I had a good two hours of ideas with the amount of beautiful landscape (and subject matter) I was dealing with when the sun disappeared!  Oh well.

Kayla, you are beautiful!  I hope you thoroughly enjoy your senior portraits.  I know I loved every minute of shooting them!

The Class of 2009: Carly

As I got out of my car in Ontario, a beautiful girl with a funky polka dot sweater, gorgeous curly hair, and fun red glasses met me in the driveway. From that moment, I knew it was going to be a great shoot!

Carly and her family moved to Eastern Oregon a year ago from Lake Havasu, Arizona, and their house is adorable. We began our shoot there, then piled up Mom's SUV with the "road crew" and a couch, and made our way out to discover what Ontario had to offer. I have to say, this was one of the most fun shoots I've done. As we climbed on trains, walked through aspens, found abandoned roadways, and maybe borrowed a corn field (...shh don't tell), Carly told me of her passion for marine biology, and specifically her desire to help with the conservation of sea turtles. She busted a pose like no other, and had fun with every thing I threw at her. She certainly was a very fun and easy model!

Carly, enjoy your senior year. I would throw out a rousing "Go Tigers!" but I think my husband, and my father-in-law (Baker Bulldogs through and through) might disown me.