Kendall, I’m so excited for you as you embark on your adventure to spend your senior year of high school in Germany! Have fun!
Category Archives: high school senior portraits
Kendall wanted some fun pictures to enclose in her graduation announcement, and it just worked out that her session was exactly 22 years to the date that I graduated from high school. Twenty-two years! I remember that day as if it were yesterday. Although, looking back, it still feels like high school took four decades for me to get through — well, except for algebra and the day we had to cut up frogs in biology (thank you, Bill Barry, for stealthily cutting mine for me without getting caught!), those seemed more like a lifetime.
Each decade since then seems more like one long week.
Best of luck to you, Kendall …
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Deepali is the second eldest of six children. When she was 14, she enrolled in a photography class. She wore braces, prescription eyeglasses and was the only female student in a room full of teenage boys. She handled herself beautifully. I know all this because I was their instructor. Deepali never missed a class and got an A on her final exam (although she tells me she’s since lost the Holga!)
Now she’s wrapping up high school and coming into her own as a strikingly confident young woman.
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Brian is a different person today than he was in August when he came to me for some updated senior portraits; he arrived a former high school senior, carrying with him notes from Latin class in preparation for an upcoming placement test. In just a few short weeks, he’s left high school behind and long since settled in as a freshman at William & Mary. His family misses him terribly (most especially his two younger brothers, who now enjoy having their own bedrooms since Brian moved out!) and his mother has waited graciously and patiently for the last couple of weeks for me to finish editing these images while the rest of us in Northern Virginia live through the craze of fall and bustle that the start of school brings…
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Annalise is a rising senior at West Springfield High School and both she and her mother are girls after my own heart: Annalise is a shoe girl and loves fun scarves, and her mother wants only black and whites for a family portrait wall dating back to the great-grandparents.
Of course, I couldn’t resist a test shot of her with my 35mm Zeiss — turns out, that lens loves Annalise and I used it more extensively on her than I have on any session to date. My vote for shot-of-the-day came from the Zeiss; can you guess which one?
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Alyssa is the youngest of three girls; she sings, dances and plays soccer; she just graduated from West Springfield High School, where she earned her letterman’s jacket on the football field; she’s a pro gamer and rumor has it she’ll win faster using only her elbows than most of us can eeek out with opposable thumbs.
Speaking of personality…
It’s a shame I couldn’t photograph the sound of Alyssa’s ’69 Mustang as she pulled up for our shoot. The car is her baby, restored by her with help from her father. As we were outside shooting, a man in an SUV rolled up and asked if he could buy the Mustang from her on the spot. Without taking her eyes off my lens, she just smiled and answered “Sorry!”
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Amazingly talented family; an accomplished ballerina (in addition to finishing her senior year in high school) and a master’s candidate in modern dance, these young women are as impressive as they are beautiful.
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Part of what I love the most about photographing high school seniors is the transformation of one in front of my lens from youth to adulthood. Kaitlyn took this one step further in showing me both a striking young woman and an elegant, fluid ballerina. I kept thinking, “Graceful…she is so graceful.”
Very exciting time of life for her. After the shoot, she headed downtown to audition for the Houston Ballet!
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High school seniors are fascinating to work with. I love talking with them about their responsibilities and plans for adulthood while photographing them as they laugh and dip back into the carefree youth that is all they know. This West Springfield High School senior was no different. She moved from elegant to playful, teenager to grown woman in front of my lens and I kept glancing over at her mother in between frames, wondering how it must be to watch your baby girl so grown up.
Brittany is a vibrant subject (her favorite color is orange) and she chose a fiery time of year to be photographed in Northern Virginia, so I was stunned by what came next. As I went through my images, marking my favorites, I saw what’s been drawing me to photograph people from as long ago as the fourth grade: the perfect black and white portrait.
(Of course, I’ll present Brittany and her mother with the picturesque Virginia autumn background in color!)
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