Inessential Stuff

Here are some pictures of Isabel!  We did her senior portraits on the South Hill at a great red barn, and later at Upper Lincoln Park.  It was waaaay colder than it appeared, a testament to Isabel’s modeling ability (I’d call it “professionalism” were she a professional model, and maybe she should be!).

If you have a facebook account, you can see more pictures from the session here.

Here are some photographs from Courtney’s senior portrait session.  We did it over a couple days (both cold), once at her school to get some track-and-field shots (under a great sky).  And then a more conventional shoot at a couple different locations.  Good fun.

I loved this shoot.  Partly, I loved the sofa.  Brilliant red.  Semi-retro styling.  Epic in every way.  In fact, the idea of using The Red Sofa in photoshoots was one of the main reasons I was willing to overpay for a used sofa, that was, in fact, the third least comfortable sofa in the world (A mildewy sofa in a basement in New Jersey, and one stuffed in an alley in Cairo are rumored to be more uncomfortable). So spectacular was The Red Sofa, that when I put it into the family room, it was thereafter known as “The Red Room”, though the sofa was the only thing red about it).

The second reason I loved this shoot was Thaly.  She is WAY more fun than these pictures suggest, which are all kind of serious.  Thaly isn’t all serious and moody.  She’s fun and genuine and warm.  It was a super combination, and these pictures are some of my favorite studio portraits.  I hope you like them too.   (Sadly, the Red Sofa is no longer with us.  Don’t ask.  But at least we have these pictures, right?  And in its honor, I still call it “The Red Room”.  But man, was that thing uncomfortable.)

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This is Aaliyah.  She was born on February 16, and these pictures were taken ten days later.  At the beginning of the shoot, she was tired, but wide-eyed, and she clearly didn’t want to sleep.  There was too much world around her, too many sounds and sights, and that strange man with the big camera was something new and peculiar, too.  I rubbed her back a little bit (which  took me back about 6 years and 8 months) and she eventually fell into dreaming.

Here is a short slide show of photographs of beautiful baby Aaliyah.

This is Matt.  I did senior pictures with him and just had a great time.  His mom had described him as “very thoughtful, introspective, intelligent, philosophical, a musician and an artist.”  I didn’t spend enough time with him to verify all those things, but from what I DID learn about him, it all seems to be true.  Though I might add that with that killer smile, he might also be a bit of a heartbreaker.

Here is a little gallery of some of my favorite pictures from the senior portrait session.

I had been wanting to do a shoot with a band for a while, but I didn’t know where to find a band.  As it ends up, Tim Wallace (second on the right), whose wedding I shot several years ago, is now in a band, and they wanted some band pictures done.

So, this past Monday, on a cold, windy, drizzly day, the band got together and we did some pictures.  They rock, so they wanted to convey that in the images, but they were polite, gracious, and pretty excited.  To paraphrase Ed Sullivan, “Level Zero has five of the nicest youngsters we’ve ever had before our camera.”

To learn more about them, check out the facebook page of Level Zero.  And, of course, check out their promotional photographs!

I have been wanting to do a country road shoot for a while (and will be doing more . . . . lots of area left unexplored there). So I arranged and shoot with Haley, who brought along her friend Julie. We drove out towards Cheney (I think they thought I was leading them on a goose-chase for a while), and found a spot.

The concept is a breakdown, as you can see. But it ended up being as much about the sunset as anything. Okay, so there are some continuity problems (few girls would breakdown on the side of the road with a wardrobe change), but it was a lot of fun, as you can see.

And though the road was fairly deserted, I think it’s pretty safe to say that these girls would have no problem finding help if they DID breakdown.