{Karena, Senior 2015}

Benefits of your mom being a photographer:

a.) pictures anytime you want them

b.) free senior pics...with as many sessions as you want :)

I have been looking forward to taking my daughter's Senior pictures ever since I jumped into the photography business.  We've had a crazy, bumpy summer, but we finally got the chance to have her summer portrait session (in September), and could not have asked for a more beautiful day.  Blue skies, a slight breeze...just absolutely perfect; and, as always, Karena rocked the session (with a little inspiration from ANTM...America's Next Top Model...our secret addiction).  

I can't wait to see what the fall and winter sessions bring!

So, of course, being a photographer's daughter, we got to take advantage of both fall and winter seasons...snow days rock (although, it was absolutely FRIGID that day)!!

July 4th...in September

Holy cow.  I am just getting around to posting on the blog because somehow my life slipped into turbo speed and mass chaos in one fell swoop.  The first set of pictures I'm posting are from our little town's July 4th fireworks show...and let me tell you, it was a show that rivaled many big cities...well, at least some of the smaller of the bigger cities!  I had never taken pictures of fireworks before (I know, shocker there!), and I thought it would be a good chance to practice with longer shutter speeds.  So between mosquito swats (did I mention we live in the middle of mosquito-ville?), I was actually able to catch some decent shots!

This one isn't the city's fireworks...it's my son and his sparkler art (but it was too cute not to post).