I’ve been impressed lately with the graduating seniors I’ve had the pleasure of photographing this spring. So much talent. Like Sarah here. Plays the violin. Rocking ballet dancer. Full ride to the University of Arizona. Although her dream school is Scripps College in California. Good choice anyways, who wants to live in Tucson right? Sarah is friends with Brianna, another senior I met earlier this year. She brought along her freshman sister Madeline, and you could just feel how close they are to each other. I couldn’t even get them to confess to being normal siblings and annoying each other….

Here’s two images from last night’s senior shoot with Sarah! An amazing young lady, super smart, bound for great things.  

I love the Teri family. They have been amazingly supportive to me over the last few years. I shot their going away part of the parents not too long ago. They’ve purchased my Stormchasing books. They refer their friends to me. They’ve been there with encouraging words throughout a lot of our recent dealings with adopting Eli. They are just awesome people. And here is yet another awesome part of that family…Kyle. He’s graduating from Mesquite High School this year and he loves his dog Captain and his Honda. His younger sister Julie also joined us for a few shots…

On Sunday afternoon I had the incredible pleasure of taking some senior portraits for a young man named Austin Gutwein. I’m not even joking when I say that you should keep an eye on this guy, because he’s going places. He started an amazing charity to help African orphans called Hoops of Hope at the age of nine. He raised $3,000 that first year by shooting 2000+ free throws, and to-date his charity has gone global and brought in over $2.5 million! 40,000 people in over 27 countries have participated to help these orphans in Africa. All because he had…

It’s been a long time since I was in high school. A long time. In fact, the big two-decade reunion is coming up next year. Yikes. Feels like so long ago. For Brianna though, it’s her final year and the sky is the limit. She loves playing guitar and may attend a college here in town or in California, perhaps the San Francisco area. She doesn’t know yet, which is half the fun of being in her position. Nothing is written, you get to find your path. She showed up for her session with family in tow…older sister down from…

I met up with graduating senior Brianna and her family on Friday. Here’s two.

There is a beautiful story behind this photoshoot, one that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It’s not my story to tell though, but all you need to know is that these two kids have some amazing friends in their lives who care about them big time. Jessica and John are brother & sister, graduating the same year, but definitely not twins. John had to “go and be an overachiever” Jessica said, so he skipped a grade and hence they got to do their senior portraits together on the same day. You can tell they are totally close…