Meet beautiful Kaycee and her puppy Shaye. She’s my last senior for the season… only she’s graduating from Texas State in August! So glad we did her session sooner than later if today is any indication what this summer is going to be like! It was a scorcher! Here’s a quick peek! Thanks for coming out!
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Meet beautiful Kayla (and her beautiful sister Kelsey) Today we photographed at my family ranch one of my very favorite locations. We had the wind and clouds… but still managed to rock this session. I love love love the portrait of the sister together! Whenever there are siblings that are local or near by I always encourage my seniors to invite them to their sessions… I do prefix it with, “as long as you’re going to have fun with them there the whole time. If not, we can do a portrait with them and then they don’t have to stay.” (I always want my session to be fun!) Kayla said, “Oh no! I want my sister with me we’re great friends.” I love that. 
Kayla also is totally graduated now! The Academy has already graduated. How nice to be totally done!! This beauty is going to Texas Tech in the fall.
Meet beautiful Emile. She’s a San Marcos Senior… We had our session this morning and love her cute style…She has great taste in shoes! (More of those to come on our Facebook page!) She’s in the band and plays flute and has plans on going to Texas State in the Fall. Thanks so much for coming in… here’s a quick peek!
I’m obsessed with weather. I think most photographers who do location work are… I seriously watch the news every night. I get updates on my phone from various weather aps… because when it rains… it totally messes up my whole schedule! I had been watching the prediction all week…and was dreading having to make that phone call to reschedule. Again. Lucky though… the rain held off long enough… and I finally got to photograph beautiful Rachel. Our session has been a long time coming… and I’m so glad it finally happened! This beauty just graduated from Texas State in Business. So excited and happy for her! Here’s just a quick peek…
I’m still shooting seniors! It’s down to the line folks…. but really, you only graduate high school once! Don’t miss the chance to have amazing portraits… This is beautiful Amanda. I’ve photographed her a few times now for cheerleadering etc… I have to say the camera loves her! She’s so easy to photograph! She brought her sweet baby Toby with her too! I am really loving photographing with my new box! Just a quick peek! Thanks for coming in!
It’s hard to be believe how quickly this year has gone. It’s bitter sweet each year as I get to know the senior class from San Marcos and surrounding high schools. These kids are amazing people. They’re smart and talented and SO good looking. I really have enjoyed spending time with these kids and documenting who they are at this time in their lives. While high school may be over… this really is just the beginning and the best is yet to come! I’m kinda jealous of them all… I wish I could do it all again knowing what I know now!
I truly appreciate each and every one of my clients. I would like to give the seniors that chose me to do their portraits a little thank you gift. I’m inviting each of them to stop by my studio before prom on May 18th for a complimentary portrait. With or without their date! My gift will include 2(5×7)s and 8 wallets. No appointment is necessary. My doors will be open from 4pm until 7pm. If you’re a junior or a senior that didn’t realize how totally awesome The Smile House is and you missed doing your senior portraits with me… you’re still invited to come! LOL I’ll have portrait packages available for you too. They’ll begin at $35.
Please call the studio if you’d like more information! I can’t wait to see all my Seniors dressed up! If you don’t go to San Marcos High School… and I did your senior portraits… YES, put on your party clothes and come on over for a fancy prom portrait! You’re absolutely welcome to join us too!
Meet handsome Marshall… he’s the twin brother to Evan in the post below… He’s into video games and karate and wants to do graphic arts. Which of course I think is totally awesome since that’s what I do! LOL We had a great session… I Can’t wait to show you guys some of these fighting ones! Super cool!
Today I hang out with Evan and his twin brother Marshall… I love twins of course since I’m a twin! It was like a kung fu movie in here! I almost sneak peeked with some of our karate images but decided to wait… LOL Here’s just a quick peek of handsome Evan. Looking forward to Marshall’s session tomorrow!
At any rate, I’m proud to be a member of such a great community. I’m always happy to meet new friends and talk shop. This year I definitely think there were more new to the industry photographers than I’ve ever seen. It’s so fun to watch people learn… and see them really start to “get it”. Everyone has to start somewhere! That’s what’s great about this conference… there are people there from all various degrees of experience, and most of us photographers who’ve been around a while are really nice! Those of you local to me, that have had the professional courtesy to send me a note or called me to introduce yourself know that I’m always willing to help/befriend new photographers! (As long as you’re legally in business that is.) Thank you to those that were brave enough to come say “hi”. I appreciate your professionalism and I look forward to our new friendships.
Just wanted to let everyone know that I’m going to be out of town over the next week. (April 28th – May 5th) I’m attending Texas School a week long photography workshop held in Addison Texas. It’s an amazing event that 1000′s of photographers from all over come to attend. Each student picks an instructor they want to learn under and spends a week learning new tricks of the trade and how to be a better photographer! There’s also a great tradeshow!! and I LOVE a good tradeshow!
I will have limited access to phone and email but will do my best to return calls and emails as time permits… and YES! I’m still shooting senior portraits… I don’t have many spots open though so if you want to do (in particular) a location session you should email me the minute you read this!!
AND because blogs without photos are BORING I thought I’d share a few recent favorites! I’ll have lots more peeks the first part of May!!
Meet beautiful Amanda… She’s a Diamond Line Captain and an amazing dancer! I’ve enjoyed photographing her dance over the last few years and today I had a fabulous time photographing her senior portraits. We had some location plans but today’s icky clouds and drizzle just didn’t work out… It’s all good though. She totally rocked our studio session! I had to throw in an extra peek because I just got that pink carpet and I LOVE it! She looks so fabulous on it!! I finally figured out who she reminds me of! Eva Longoria. Especially in the pink one. Thanks for coming in!!
Another one of my pretty college seniors! This is beautiful Yesenia. She’s an education major… have to respect anyone who’s going into teaching! I love this image with the desk at the apples! SO cute!! Even though it was a bit hazy today… we got lucky right at the magic hour and got some beautiful sunlight! I’m so glad too because our first attempt got rained out! Congratulations! See you soon!
Yesterday was so awesome! Meet beautiful Haley! I love my job! Pretty girl, great location! Boots/Hats and Prom Dresses! My idea of a perfect afternoon! Thanks so much for choosing me to do your senior portraits! See you soon!
Today turned out to be awesome! Seeing that it was totally miserable yesterday, I couldn’t be more happy about that. Here’s the peek for part two of Victoria’s session. While spring is unpredictable it sure is beautiful here in San Marcos. Love these images!
So today I photographed sweet Haiden. He however was NONE too pleased with our photographic plan! It involved four costume changes and he was definitely not thrilled about it. He eventually gave in… with the bribe of a sucker and my cute puppy. LOL We have some pretty funny images… Just wanted to share this quick one. In my family we call this “The Stink Face”. Doesn’t he look totally mad at me?? I hope he’ll forgive us when he’s older because these images are going to make for a fabulous collage! Always a pleasure! Thanks for coming in!
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