Corinne - senior 2010

Corinne and I headed out to Mendon ponds to take her senior pictures last month on my birthday! It was so much fun... mainly because Corinne is just all laughs and cuteness. In a totally grown up sort of way ;) I love this girl's smile, she holds nothing back, kinda reminds me of me... ha! But man, can she ever pull off the serious looks... one of a kind she is :) Love you Corinne!

Bekah {senior portraits}

Bekah is a girl near and dear to my heart. She is a true beauty... and she happens to be beautiful on the outside too :)

She came with me to two of my weddings this summer and assisted me, for which I am so grateful. I looked forward to her pictures so much, and we had such fun taking them! In fact, they were taken right across the street from where I live now. Down by the creek is a hidden treasure in this town, I love going down there :)

a little hippie, a little vintage, a lotta chic

In the midst of the weddings I've been doing lately, I've still managed to stay true to my first love... portraits

Jill is a senior this year and had some pretty ambitious ideas for her pictures... well, not gonna lie, I did too ;) and together, I think we did a pretty good job pulling off what she wanted.





this picture makes me sigh... *sighhhhh*














Jill you're beautiful... inside and out. Love you girl!

Jill

Initially, I was only going to post one... but I couldn't! I just couldn't! Jill has been waiting all summer to do these pictures... and honestly, so have I.

I love my job, but I love my job more when I get the chance to conspire with a fellow artist. When words like funky, edge-y and out-there are being thrown around, I can't help but contain myself (if only slightly and for the sake of my very professional demeanor at all times...)



There are so many more than just these. But I must discipline myself and finish them in order! Guess that gives me some incentive to get some work done... :)

finally, an adult family!

Diane contacted me a couple months ago with the hopes that we could come up with some new family pictures for her walls.

I knew her only by name, but have since gotten to know her and her husband, Michael, as well as her two children, Chelsea and Luke, much better... and I am a better person for having them in my life!



Shooting this family of 4 was an absolute pleasure. For once, I was able to have an idea in my mind, and execute it exactly the way I saw it ;) That doesn't happen with little kids... ha! The fact that they are all very photogenic was a huge factor too.

Good posing + good looking people = great pictures!



All of these were shot in the tiny village of Lakeville that sits right on Conesus lake.







When we were done with family pics, I stayed back with Luke and we shot some for his senior pics...

I seriously couldn't handle that he could do this:



Seriously, who does that? oh yah, Luke does.



Love these two shots... so much the same, but different and unique in their own way.





I've enjoyed working with you all so much and I'm glad to know that this won't be the only interaction I have with you! Thank you for picking me to help preserve your family at this time in life and I hope to be around to see new memories that will be made through the years!

Emily (senior pics, rochester, NY)

my name is: emily



my school is: homeschool

my graduation date is: May 22



the last thing i ate was: an apple

my dream job is: singer/songwriter



if I had $1,000 i would buy: a junky old car (hey, if it runs who cares what it looks like?)



my favorite thing in my closet: purple halter top



my favorite pastime: writing songs and singing whatever comes into my head



i have never… seen heaven

my favorite magazine: Brio



my favorite place to shop:any thrift store (they're the best!)



my favorite high school moment: don't have one. highschool's been fairly static for me, never a really bad moment.



i love amanda slakes photography because: the photographer's waayyyy cool and completely talented!

Bryan's Senior Pics (Rochester, NY Senior Photographer)

Bryan was the first senior guy I have photographed since my brother's and his friends when they were seniors... 4 years ago!

Needless to say, I was pretty nervous going into this shoot. I did my homework though and felt confident to do a good job. So here are a few I picked out for you to look at. The entire set has been posted at the online gallery on my website, but I am just trying to catch up on the last few shoots here :)





This is seriously one of my favorite shots ever. I love love love the more artistic shots that showcase something that is actually still life while including a person in the picture. If people didn't care so much about actually being seen in their pictures, I would TOTALLY do this all the time LOL!



This is great too... I had a girl earlier in the summer who also wanted pictures taken while she was reading her Bible. I seriously love using unique props... it makes pictures so much more interesting and... well, UNIQUE ;)



A field of soy beans... yep, that's what those are. They have such a cool texture and I just love the color here. It was really hard light to shoot in and we had to do this shot a couple times over to get the right exposure and the color to be so vibrant. It was totally worth it though!