I must say this is a first: two senior portrait siblings on the same day! Actually Chelsea and Justin are step-sibs. I shot their older brother RJ’s seniors a couple of years ago, so it was fun meeting them and comparing them to RJ. These two are as different as night and day, and they remind me of me and my brother Chuck at that age: best friends who squabble a lot! Chelsea wanted “pretty” and Justin wanted “urban”, so I definitely had to switch gears when it came time to switch teenagers!
Not counting the nanny, there were 16 beautiful family members in this group! It was quite a job, but spending an afternoon with the M family was really fun. We had three generations there to celebrate Grandpa’s birthday, including seven gorgeous kids. What a houseful! We shot these at the grandparents’ home in Black Forest, under dramatic skies and beautiful Indian summer late afternoon light. Here are a handful of my faves from our day. Nice looking group eh?
This is my cousin Mitch! Well, he’s my cousin a few times removed. Let me see if I can get this straight… Mitch’s dad’s mom is my mom’s cousin I think. So that makes Mitch my cousin five times removed or something like that. Right? Anyway, he’s a cool kid! Mitch is a senior at Pine Creek up in Gleneagle. He’s really into skateboarding (as you can see from these pictures) and is a generally easygoing guy, just like his dad. The last time I saw Mitch he was only about 11 or 12 years old, so it was fun to catch up! We had so much fun taking these. I think we captured his spirit pretty well.
Thanks guys, I had a blast! Tamera
Here’s a cool kid that’s a senior at my alma mater, Doherty. Michael’s mom used to work with my mom several years ago; when it came time for Mike’s senior portraits Rosalie remembered that I’m a photographer, so she looked me up. I hadn’t seen her in a number of years and she’s just the same! What a nice person, and Mike grew up to look just like his mom. We had a lot of fun taking these portraits. Most of them were taken in and around Monument Valley Park, but a couple of weeks ago I had spied this cool graffiti wall south of downtown so I convinced Mike to let me take a few snaps of him there too. Wow, does it ever look cool! Well it doesn’t hurt to have a cool kid for your subject!
Thanks guys for brightening my day! Tamera
Ollie is the king of the hill!
Sometimes when you ask four year old boys to smile, this is what you get.
Showing me their muscles
I love how Reid’s little tongue is sticking out with the effort of balancing on this chain. It’s so cute!
I love love LOVE this picture! It just screams “I’m four!”
It was such a hot day, after our shoot we went for ice cream at Baskin Robbins. Within moments Ollie was covered in the stuff.