Capital High School Homecoming | Portraits

I first met Shelby this past July volunteering at Summer Hummer (which, by the way, is my FAVORITE part of summer). I met her through Nghia, who I've known pretty much my whole life. I love Shelby and the fact that she is always happy. She loves Jesus and it's apparent that He is active in her life. Love love love it. She asked me a few weeks ago whether or not I would take some quick portraits of her and her group last Saturday for their Homecoming and I was more than happy to do it! We took these at the Lacey Community Center where there was a little forest of these beautiful trees. Love it. Hope you kids had a great time at the dance!

Josh and Julissa

Rohin and Haley

Nghia and Shelby

Some group shots!

Thank You Red Slippers Photography Seniors! | {Preview} Portraits

This weekend was my last weekend of doing senior portraits for the Fall season. Even though it was a great first run of this little business of mine, I feel a huge relief. I might be wrong, but I've shot 39 (give or take) Seniors and I am so incredibly grateful to each and every single one of them. Thank you for trusting me with your senior portraits. It's an exciting time and when I was a Senior, I definitely looked forward to getting mine done. I feel so honored that you chose me as your Senior portrait photographer.

On Saturday, (praise Jesus) no rain fell. It was cold but dry. By late morning, the sun had come out! I took portraits of two new Seniors, Kristina and Kamron, and then I had a second session with Andra and Bailey. Kamron's girlfriend, Kenzi, came along for his session as well. I took her portraits the weekend before (but have yet to blog them so keep checking back!). After the Senior sessions, I was able to take some Homecoming portraits for some kids from Capital High School. Nghia has been a lifetime friend and I met Shelby this past summer volunteering at Summer Hummer. I met them and their friends at the Lacey Community Center where there was a little forest of these trees that I absolutely loved.

Enjoy these previews guys! I really appreciate your patience with the rest of them as I am studying for midterms this week. :)

Kristina

Andra

Kamron

Kamron and Kenzi

Bailey

Josh and Julissa

Haley and Rohin

Nghia and Shelby

Black Hills' High School Homecoming Pt. 1 | Portraits

Here I go, attempting to individually blog the sessions I had this past weekend. I was just so pumped about these Homecoming images so I wanted to blog this first group of Black Hills' dancers. Ha. Anyway, I'm sure you'll recognize Bailey and her boyfriend Isaiah. If you've been following my blog for awhile now, you'll also recognize Dixon, who I took senior pictures for awhile ago.

Anyway, these kids were a lot of fun to photograph and it definitely helped that I am pretty good friends with all of them. I was on a time constraint but I took approximately 200 frames within 20 minutes. (The final image count was 56, but I'm getting better at shooting, shooting, shooting).

I love this first location. It's kind of my own secret place but since I've taken so many photos there now, it's not so secret anymore. I was driving past it a few weeks ago and I noticed all the piles of yellow leaves and I thought to myself, 'I have to shoot there!' Gorgeous, is it not?

Dixon, Lexy, Bailey and Isaiah- I hope you guys had a blast at Homecoming. The rest of your images will be up on my Flickr within the next few days. Thanks for having me take these photos. I adore them.

They are so cute together! I love it.

They're kinda happy.

Funny story about this image- State Patrol pulled up and told me that I could get run over. I realize the risk- thanks for informing me officer. :)

I had to do it

Love this

Bailey pulled off the Grecian goddess look real well ;)

Just a Weekend of Doing What I Love | {Preview} Portraits

I think that this past weekend was one of the busiest weekends I have had yet. I never get tired of photographing but doing it for 8+ hours in a day gets me wanting to crash by the end of the day. Needless to say, I am stoked on these images. I learned some things this weekend, learned not what to do next time, learned what I can do next time... it was exhausting, yes, but not regrettable. :)

On Saturday I took pictures of five Seniors and two high school Homecoming groups (7 couples). The rain was ridiculous and kept going on and off. On Sunday, I shot another three Seniors. Here are some image previews from my weekend. More detailed blog posts to come!

North Thurston Homecoming | Portraits

Yesterday, I was a madwoman shooting four sessions and in-between running home to unload cards and grab some food. On top of that, I had just acquired a cold.... BUT despite all of that, I got some rad sessions in.

Melissa, one of the girls from my youth group, asked me a bit ago to take some portraits of her and her friends on Homecoming day and I was more than happy to oblige. These kids were looking sharp, I dare say. I love Homecoming and all the fun that goes with it!

Here are some previews- I will have all of them on my Flickr in the next few days. Hope you kids had fun!

Melissa and Niki

Jenny and Brandon

Joonhae and Tim

Adrienne and Kosta

The lovely ladies