Katelind is from North Jersey and wanted to have her senior pictures in both urban and nature settings. During her consultation we scratched our heads for a few minutes trying to think of the right location but all we could come up with was a lot of hmmms and uhhhs. Then it occurred to us that the mother of all urban locations was just across the river in New York City. Not only that, but it also has… wait for it… this place called Central Park which might present some interesting nature settings. Sweet! So try to imagine a senior photographer who loves urban settings and has been feeling a little confined by a mid-sized midwestern town bent on urban renewal and a beautiful high school senior who grew up in North Dakota. Can you say kids in a candy store? I think my 10 year old daughter Lanie, who assisted me on the photo shoot, was like the the only sober person in our entourage. She’d just look at me and say “What’s the big deal?”. So we started our photo shoot with a tour or Soho, took a subway up to Central Park and shot nature pictures until we ran out of light and then took a few more. So what do you think of Katelind in the Big Apple?

This New York City shoot also put new meaning to the phrase “There’s an App for that!”. I used iPhone apps to find where to park, where to find pizza, subway maps and timetables, and even photo opportunities in Central Park. Don’t know how I ever got by without my iPhone.

We had our first Jersey Shore Trash the Dress party at Sunset Beach in Cape May, NJ earlier this month with some of our favorite models. Everything was clicking including a great sunset over the water, calm waves and beautiful models. Does this look like fun or what?

We usually measure success on a senior portrait photo shoot based on how many awesome images we get, but in Kayla’s case we were just glad she lived through it. We finished her photo shoot with water skiing lifestyle pictures at Saylorville Lake and things got scary after Uncle Jerry steered Kayla a little too close to the dam. Like broke-her-ski-on-the-rocks too close. This was definitely one of those “Oh Shit!” moments that gets your heart pumping and your brain dialing 911. Then, with the quick thinking and coolness of Captain Sully’s Miracle on the Hudson, Kayla navigated between the rocks on the dam and a floating tree trunk just waiting to break both of her legs and managed to land in about a foot of water, breaking only one ski, and calmly said “I’m OK!”. Then like a champ, Kayla gets another pair of skis and takes a couple more laps past the dam like nothing happened. These first two pictures we’re taken after Kayla’s close encounter. We love Kayla’s beauty and adventerous spirit - a true model-warrior.

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Check out Bailey from Adel, IA.  Bailey applied to be one of our senior models over a year ago after seeing a friend’s Senior Album and we are so glad she did. Bailey also models for Toyota and was selected to walk the Runway at Prom DSM last January. Bailey took advantage of two of our urban model events in addition to her fashion photo shoot in Des Moines and a nature/lifestyle photo shoot at her grandfather’s farm and had an incredible selection of great images to choose from when it came time to pick images for her own senior album. We hope to work with Bailey again and see her once again on the runway at Prom DSM.

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Zack hails from Abbington, PA, but wanted a senior portrait photographer in Avalon, NJ to created his senior portraits at the beach in Avalon where his family vacations during the summer. Since beach portraits and seniors are our specialties, we were delighted to help. We also managed to create some sports senior portraits at the ball field and even a few studio shots in Zack’s garage.