Something special about Hayley is that she had been a bone marrow donor for her sister, Ashlyn, about a year ago. Ashlyn has survived cancer thanks to Hayley and made a shirt with ribs on it for her to commemorate this. There are 2 pink hearts on the back of the shirt that show where Hayley had the bone marrow removed.

Hayley has been such a pleasure to photograph. She’s been so much fun and we’ve loved all the ideas she’s thrown our way. Thanks Hayley for allowing us to be a part of your Senior year! Here’s a slideshow of photos from her recent session.

We had so much fun photographing Hayley.  Can’t wait for your next session in a couple of months, Hayley!

I had an idea of doing a Trash the Dress session with Hayley.  Having her in her prom dress in a woodsy area by the railroad tracks.  I didn’t want to do anything too crazy to get Hayley’s dress dirty before prom, but I liked the idea of a pretty dress in an unlikely setting.  I talked the idea over with Hayley and she loved the idea.

This was another new idea of ours we had tried on Hayley.  That’s something that we love about spokesmodel sessions is that we’re able to try some ideas and see how they work.  Hayley had mentioned that she loves dancing and liked the idea of having a disco ball in her photos.  We took a series of photos that had this theme of fun and colorful backgrounds that fit Hayley’s personality well along with a night time look to them.  Hayley was excited to have something new done in her photos that her other classmates wouldn’t have seen before.

More photos to come from Hayley’s session on Monday!

Hayley is a fun, easy going girl and we had so much photographing her.  She is very flexible and was up for trying some new things for her photo session.  A lot of you probably remember a few years ago we photographed Ashlyn, who is Hayley’s older sister.  Hayley had actually been Ashlyn’s bone marrow donor so that is a special bond  they share.  We always enjoy working with Hayley’s family.  They are such amazing people.

This is Hayley’s prom dress.  It is so beautiful and worked well contrasting the rough, woodsy background.

We will be posting more photos from Hayley’s session in the upcoming days.  Check out more from her session tomorrow!

Over the past year, we kept in contact with Ashlyn and her family and we wanted to do something special for her.   So I contacted Ashlyn’s mom, Anne, and asked her if she could give me the names of Ashlyn’s best friends so we could get them together for a photo session to make a surprise for her.  So we photographed her friends and we created a collage canvas for Ashlyn of some of the best photos from this session and all her friends wrote messages to Ashlyn around the photos.

We went to Valley Junction for the session and had so much fun with all the girls.

This was one of the girls’ favorites.  They had the ladders on the side of the box car blocked off but the girls climbed up anyway so we could get this photo.

This is one of my favorites from the day.  Emily wanted to have something special to Ashlyn in the photos so she kidnapped some of Ashlyn’s Converse shoes with Anne’s help.

Two of the girls were in Color Guard with Ashlyn so we made sure to take a couple of photos with their flags.

Thanks Emily, Jane, Hannah, Sara, Tessa and Alli for helping us photograph this special session for Ashlyn.   Thanks for being so flexible and up for all our crazy ideas.  We had a blast.  We hope you have a great time in college this Fall.

We are currently accepting appointments now through August for Seniors who will be graduating in 2010.  Because of our high quality standards and the personal attention we give to each of our clients, we can only accept a limited number of Seniors so call today at  321 – 8910 to learn more.

More blog postings of senior portrait sessions

We hope to be hearing from you soon!

This portrait shows some of things Ashlyn loves best. She likes collecting Converse shoes and enjoys making word collages in her free time. Her word collage was so cool to look at and it is just such a fun way that she expresses herself.

I had had this idea for Ashlyn’s session for her to wear a really elegant dress against an urban, edgy background. Two things you don’t expect to see together. Ashlyn loved the idea and we had fun with it. I like how her dress and the door complement each other with their colors. I think she looks like a model in this portrait.

I like how she looks like such a powerful woman in this portrait. Kevin did a wonderful job with the lighting on this one.

This is a new product we just started offering this year for Seniors. Seniors can get wallets with their autograph on them to pass out to their friends.

Ashlyn had chosen our top Senior session, the Luxe Life, which includes several different settings for the on-location part of her session. I think this alley turned out to be Ashlyn, Kevin and mine’s favorite location of all. The moody alley suites our photography style well. For part of the session, I took Ashlyn up on this fire escape which was great. After we walked off of it, I felt bad because she had been wearing heels, but Ashlyn is such a good sport and was up for doing anything in the name of good photos!

Here is a collage we made up from some of her portraits.

Thank you Ashlyn, Anne and Danny for being so incredible to work with. You have been such a blessing to us. Have a great Senior year, Ashlyn!

We will continue to post some high resolution images of Ashlyn, but for now, here is a video that we put together of our favorite images from Ashlyn’s sessions:

Seniors – if you haven’t had senior portraits created for you yet, don’t hesitate! You must call us immediately in order to be able to make many of the schools’ deadlines for yearbooks.

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