We often joke, half-joke and sometimes even seriously ask our Iowa clients if they would like to have their beach senior pictures created at the Jersey Shore where we spend part of our summer shooting each year. And just about the time when the joke wasn’t so funny anymore, amazingly, one of our clients asked us. When Emily from Des Moines asked us if we could create her Senior Pictures in Ocean City, NJ, it was like being asked to the Sadie Hawkins Dance after giving up on dames. Fortuitously for all our schedules lined up and we were able to put our experience photographing seniors in Ocean City to good use on Emily’s behalf. There is something special about Ocean City that makes Seniors who have spent their childhoods vacationing there want to have their senior pictures done there and include the locations on the boardwalk that have special memories like Wonderland. We’re pretty confident none of Emily’s classmates at Dowling are going to have Senior Pictures like this.

Colby John from Winterset, IA is a young man of many parts and passions. All the usual guy things like fast cars, trendy fashion, modeling and his hair. Colby won our Urban Model Shootout and was only a few likes away from being our Class of 2012 Top Model. As one of our most active Senior Models, we got to know Colby better than most. He’s a definite ladie’s man who attended all of our model events and relished the role of being the only rooster in the hen house. Colby is also a nationally ranked gymnast and just placed first at a national gymnastics competition in Synchronized Trampoline after practicing with his partner for just 15 minutes prior to the event. BTW - Colby goes at least 6′3″ and has to be the tallest nationally ranked gymnast in the history of the sport. So while we might not pick him out of a lineup as an obvious gymnast, we have seen him jump and we are believers. Check out Colby John and all of his women, fast cars, slick hair, designer duds and atheticism he brought to his senior pictures.