The following are just AJ’s football pictures, he will be visiting the studio this winter when his mowhak grows out.  LOL

Here is my favorite…

I had a blast with AJ and his mom.   Football is a big part of their life and AJ’s high school career so we wanted to make sure it was well documented with pictures.  I can’t wait to have him back in the studio this winter to take some more non-football related shots.

Good luck to AJ and the rest of the Plymouth Football Team!!  I will be watching to see how you guys do throughout the year so keep me posted on facebook!

I really like these next two shots.  My lovely and talented husband made me a reflector to put under her face so I could try a different lighting technique.  I really like how it turned out.  Thanks Bob!!!

The next shot was taken by her house, it is so pretty out there.

Thanks Abby for the wonderful evening!  Both of Abby’s parents came with.  I love when dad’s are there for their daughter’s sessions.  I think they enjoy watching their daughter’s do the “model” thing and I like it because they are really good reflector holders.  LOL  So girls if your dad wants to come bring them along, the more the merrier.

Have a wonderful senior year!!  :)

Bethanni ROCKED her Senior Session!!!!

I had a ball during this session.  I just wish it wasn’t so hot out.  Bethanni brought her best friend with.  I highly recommend that.  We put her to work plus they will both have memories of Bethanni’s senior photo session.

Waves to Bethanni’s mom too!!!

We went to downtown Chesterton, Indiana for Rusana’s senior pictures.  There were a ton of great spots.  It is just too bad it was so hot and the mosquitos were just horrible at the end. (really the story of my life)

Rusana held the reflector for me at her sister’s senior session last year, her mom got her chance this time.

Thanks girls for a fun evening.  It was nice to go some place totally different for a change.

Stunning sunset, stunning girl, and lots of mosquitos.  Luckily my clients are troopers and they don’t mind the heat and bugs.  Love u guys!

LOVE THIS SHOT!!!!

And here is Kassie’s family.  I loved how when we were done with family pictures Kip (her dad) and her little (yet taller) brother Kris stayed and hung out with us.  I hope it was a time that you all will never forget.  Kip- I was sooo close to posting the shot of you with the hat on, but I didn’t know if it was for public viewing.  You owe me!

I had a blast with Becca and her gang.  I just love that first picture of her on the truck.  Big thanks to Doug Shannon for bringing it over to the studio for her to use.

I LOVE, LOVE this picture.  He was standing in the water with his suit on, how cool is that!

It was getting really dark out, but we just kept shooting.

Mark is Culver all the way.  He is in everything!!

Super duper fun evening with Mark, his mom and his brother.  So glad they will be back in a few years for his brother’s senior pictures.  Mark you will have to come with when I take those.

Enjoy your senior year Mark!!!

Mark’s mom was a great help, she had clothes ready to go so he grabbed and changed really quick.  It was great team work!  I even had his brother stand in a couple times so I could test lighting so when Mark was ready we just threw him in and snapped away.

The sky was constantly changing all evening.  It was like a show was being put on for our photo shoot.  These next two pictures were taken within about 15 mins of each other.

Liz is the 2010 Mint Festival Queen.

Liz works at a vet clinic and loves animals and they love her too…

During the session Liz asked me, “Is every session this much fun?”  I had a hard time answering that because I am thinking what to say because I wouldn’t consider what we had gone thru “fun”.  Let me try to quickly fill you in on my evening with Liz.

- The horses broke the fence that day and they were in the pen we would be shooting in, so we had to move them to the other pen. (not easy, but we got it)

-While getting Liz’s horse saddled her best friend Sam got stepped on by the horse.  (she was wearing flip flops)  So I played nurse for a few seconds and then both Sam and I had to get back to helping Liz.

- While shooting Liz and her one horse another horse knocked the broken fence over and came in the pen with us and thought it would be fun to pick on the photographer.  LOL

-In between takes I put my light stand in the barn and tried to put it out of the way.  I knocked down a feed sack and I had a pile of dirt dumped on me.  I just stood there for a second and said a bad word (not like me) and then dusted myself off and helped Liz.

-We couldn’t get Liz’s chaps to zip up.   If you are someone that has worn chaps before you understand.  It isn’t easy every, but when everyone is sweating and miserable it is rough.  Sam and I got them zipped up though, we were a great team!

- The dogs, well they acted like dogs.  LOL

-We all were sweating big time it was so humid out.  I actually had Liz run back home before we headed to train museum to freshen up because the poor girl was a mess after dealing with horses and dogs.

That is most of it in a nutshell.  Did Liz have fun?  She said she did and that is all that matters.  Her mom I know didn’t have fun dealing with the dogs, but I think she enjoyed watching her daughter have fun, Sam got stepped on so I am thinking even if she had fun that kinda ruined her evening, and you know what, despite all the craziness I had fun too, and we got awesome pictures!!!

Since Sam got stepped and still sucked it up and helped her best friend out she get the Photography by Jayme Best Helper Award.  Thanks Sam for your help, I know Liz appreciated it and so did I.

I am going to start off  by sharing the last couple photos of the hot and humid evening with Courtney.  We were waiting for just alittle bit so the sun went down alititle more and all the sudden Courtney yells “RAINBOW!” so we scurry and grabbed a few shots before it was gone which didn’t take long it all.  It is pretty amazing there even was one last night because it only rained a few drops where we were.

Courtney brought her best buddy Megan… (yep the same Megan that was on the blog last week with the 4 horses)

Everyone has a friend that seems to be good at everything, well Courtney is that friend to many people.

First off, she sews.  The outfit she is wearing and the ones hanging on the stand she made.  Pretty cool huh!  She will be modeling the one she is wearing down at State Fair.  And then there are alot of trophies there in the picture from other 4H projects.

And she is one AMAZING gymnast.  Do you see what the jacket says there in the back…. “National Champion”

She is a cheerleader too. (I really good one!)  We are going to take her cheerleading pictures in the fall because she still has more medals to win in that category.

Huge thanks to Megan for helping with all of Courtney’s stuff!  I had so much fun with you guys, wish it wasn’t so humid, but if I had to sweat with someone I would rather it be you girls.  LOL

SISTERS!

Meet Taylor, she is 7 and is such a good sister…

Here’s Ella.  She’s TWO!  She is fun to be around and likes to do whatever her big sister Taylor is doing.

And this is their little baby sister Georgia.  She is only two months old and when you look at her you just can’t help but saying, AWWW!

Thanks girls for being soo good for me.  I had a blast taking your pictures.  I hope you had fun at your great grandma’s house after you left here.

This is one of my favorite shots!  Gotta love cool old trucks.

Amanda’s horse cowboy wanted to eat grass the entire time, so it wasn’t easy to get his head up or to get his attention.  Luckily Amanda’s mom figured out a good truck and once she did it worked ever time.

Getting in the water was their idea, and I am so glad Amanda wanted to, I just love this shot.

How cool is this…

Amanda’s boyfriend Connor is a sweetie.  He is also a good reflector holder too.  Not so good at getting a horses attention but that’s okay, he did his job.

I LOVE this jumping shot.  Amanda is a fun girl and this totally shows her personality.

This was one of those sessions where everything just worked out perfectly.  The evening was cool for a July day and the sky was pretty blue and Amanda and her mom had some great ideas, I got to just stand by and let everything fall into place and snap the pictures.

Thanks for the awesome evening gang!!!

I ended up with 3 mosquito bites trying to get this picture….

Still can’t believe we managed to get this photo.  Luckily Megan has nice horses, most people couldn’t do something like this.

It got alittle bit too dark on us, we kinda goofed off alittle too much.  I still have one shot I need to get but I will get that next week when Megan comes to Courtney’s senior session.  Speaking of Courtney….

Ever heard the song  ”Too Much Fun” by Daryle Singletary.  Yeah well Courtney had too much fun the other night.  She got dressed up in some of my kid props.

She tried to leave the studio with my stuff but I wouldn’t let her.  She was a good reflector holder.

Thanks girls (well and Jim too) for the fun evening.  I can’t wait until Courtney’s so we can have round 2 of “too much fun!”