Lovely Carly

I had such a wonderful time photographing Carly Marksberry for her senior photos this week. Carly is an amazing young woman with a big heart. She truly is stunning, inside and out. Her hope is to work with special needs children when she graduates.

We went to Midtown Atlanta for our shoot and found some special locations there. My favorite prop of the day was a red scooter that Freddie Miller from the Jonathan Adler store let us borrow. He walked outside while we were shooting and offered to let us use it. We were pleasantly surprised and jumped at the chance. Thank you, Freddie!

Enjoy some of the magical photos we captured of Carly.

Pretty Patterns

Scooter Cutie

Sassy and Stylish

Bridge Beauty

Happy in Red

Sweet

So Pretty

Sunshine on the Bridge

Perfect

As the Train Goes By

Black and White Classic

Just Carly

This is Ethan. He is an adorable young man, very centered in who he is, and yes, girls right now is taken.

He is the son of  some very dear friends of ours, Brad and Debbie Slawter. Brad and Debbie were with Chris and me on our very first official date. They were already engaged to be married at the time, and were gracious enough to spend time with the “new couple”. Chris and Brad have actually been friends for much longer than that, and I will never forget the smile on his face that night, as if he knew Chris and I would go on to be together forever.  Their family is special to ours, and our kids have grown up great friends, even though they have not lived in close proximity to one another for very long at all. My girls adore their eldest, Aubrey, and Ethan and Johnny have so much in common. I think if they lived here, they would be inseparable, both loving guitar, good music, and the same sense of humor and spirit of adventure.

Anyway, they came through town several weeks ago and asked me to shoot Ethan’s senior photos.  I was honored to do so. It was about 99 degrees that day. I thought we would melt in the afternoon sun, but we did great. Ethan kept us laughing and with Johnny behind the soft box, we had it coming from all directions. It was a good day. Plus, look at this kid! What a joy to be around.

We love you Slawter family! Happy senior year! It goes by so fast.

Johnny and I had a great time shooting Justin Davis’s senior photo session on his beautiful family farm in Dacula, GA. We certainly didn’t have a shortage of beautiful places to shoot. The light was perfect as well as the weather. My favorite photos of the day were in an old barn on the property. The sunlight was beaming through the wooden planks and I had Johnny throw some dust behind Justin to get a nice hazy effect. Beautiful. We did have to leave there pretty quickly though; Evidently the bees that were nesting in the ground didn’t take too kindly to their dust being thrown around. Yikes! I can move fast at the sound of an angry bee.

Congratulations, Justin.

I had the pleasure of photographing Taylor Ronne last week for his senior photos. What a great guy!  Taylor is so funny and talented. His mom and dad, Deb and Dave, are good friends of ours and Dave serves with my husband, Chris, at 12 Stone Church in the redemptive arts department.

As you can tell, Taylor loves his wheels, as most teenage boys do, his dogs, and his family, who all came to watch and participate behind the scenes. We had such a great time. I always love it when my kids assist me, and Annie assisted me on this shoot, bringing the tunes and helping everyone to loosen up and dance.  :)

Taylor, I hope you love these pictures as much as I do! May your senior year be your best one yet!

I had the joy of photographing this handsome senior a couple weeks ago. Evan loves nature and the water, so we chose to go to Hurricane Shoals Park , where there are plenty of places for a young man to explore.  Aside from dropping my pocket wizard in the river ( which Johnny retrieved and rescued!), it was a very restful and enjoyable shoot. Here are just a few of our time with Evan.

I had the pleasure of photographing beautiful Sutton for her senior pictures last week. As you can see from the photos below, she is stunning and so at ease in front of the camera. The best part is, Sutton has a beautiful heart too. I have known her parents for many years and they are such wonderful people.

Blessings on your senior year, Sutton. May it be your best and most favorite year in high school!