Check out recent Westview High School, Class of 2010 graduate, Kelsey Dettman! She is one of the 2009-2010 Iron Cats of the Year and our model subject for our recent Sports Session Spotlight! We’ve been doing a lot of ‘sports sessions’ over this past year and are excited to offer video spotlights as an add-on to your high school senior portrait Session! Check out Kelsey’s Sports Spotlight below and let us know what you think. Contact us for more details on how to schedule your own Sports Spotlight session!

Meet Mai…our rep from Century High School in Hillsboro, OR. Mai was a blast to work with and up for any challenge we presented her! As usual, I like to take it to the edge some times and she had quite the experience with posing in front of a plethora of trash barrels! I hope you had a great time! Enjoy your sneak peek!

A few weeks ago, we completed the last photo shoot from my Winter Photo Contest with my Grand Prize Winner, Brenna Greene and her 4 best friends. Brenna’s shoot also pleasantly coincided with a personal side project that I’m working on with film maker John Baldino. We’re thrilled that we had the opportunity to do this project with the group of girls that Brenna brought along and I am looking forward to seeing the final project in it’s completed state. Unfortunately, even though we did have sunny breaks throughout the day, after being inside filming video for several hours, by the time we were able to start shooting, it started to rain! Well, that’s Oregon weather for you! You can’t win ‘em all but we still had fun shooting inside. For now, here’s a quick sneak peek for Brenna and her friends, Carly, Whitney, Elizabeth and Sarah.

Meet our 4th Class of ’11 Senior Model Rep from Westview High School, Jem! While the highs didn’t reach near 70 degrees on the day of Jem’s model rep shoot, we were still able to duck outside for a few quick outdoor shots in between rain last week. Jem brought an awesome wardrobe full of color and texture. We had a blast! She’s got quite a great summer on the horizon, interning for Nike in Manila! A natural leader, she’s also got a load of awesome opportunities ahead of her and her senior year hasn’t even started yet! Enjoy your sneak peek!

Meet Alexxa. Another Class of ’11 Senior Model Rep from Oregon Episcopal School. Alexxa is smart, talented and the camera loves her! Knowing that the Oregon weather was going to change on us before just in time for spring break to end, we headed out last Saturday and caught the last bit of sunshine and also snuck in a little time for some studio shots as well! Alexxa was great at handling my unexpected hiccup with my car battery dying when we decided to head out around the blocks. Fortunately, we just kept the truck idling and were able to snap a few quick creative shots with some off camera flash at the end! Alexxa – it was awesome working with you! Looking forward to more fun this summer for your senior shoot. Enjoy your sneak peek!

Everybody told me when we had our daughter how fast she will grow and all the little idiosyncrasies of the trials and tribulations of parenthood  will seem minimal compared to how fast that little baby will grow into a beautiful girl.
I never really thought about it until recently when I realized what used to be our baby boy is now about to turn 4 years old. This post isn’t meant to embarrass Kendra, but to really highlight the fact that Kendra is one of the main reasons I started getting into senior portraits. I can’t believe that I started photographing her when she was still in middle school and she is now approaching the end of her junior year and embarking on her final year of high school! Wow! Time really does fly! There will be more pictures of Kendra and the rest of my model reps to come in the summer months but I can’t leave this post without expressing a huge thanks to you for being an awesome and willing subject. And to Jill and Kevin, of course, for allowing her to do this. At some point, we will do a photo montage of my test shoots with Kendra over the past several years.

Makeup by Jenna Fallon

Meet Chelsea….fun, energetic and full of life! Chelsea was up for anything and everything as you will see at the bottom of this post! I love it when clients are willing to be adventurous! Chelsea, I had a great time photographing you and getting to know you a little better! We still have fun softball photos to create! Enjoy your sneak peek!

Makeup by Jenna Fallon

Last week was spring break for most of the schools in this area. So, just before everybody headed out to their favorite spring break location of choice, I was lucky enough to steal a bit of time away from them on a beautiful sunny Saturday for some model reps shoot. First up was Blake, coming well prepared with a good variety of clothes, shoes and accessories to boot! I am very fortunate to have a really great team of Model Reps to work with this year! Blake’s mom kept me well entertained, snapping away several iphone photos of me in action. If I get a chance between all the model rep shoots that I need to post, I’ll post a few of her snapshots of me on Facebook! Blake…there were so many good images, it was too hard to choose!

Makeup by Jenna Fallon

Ashley was one of our lucky winners of the 2010 Winter Photo Contest! Not only was she a winner, but she is also one of our Class of 2010 Senior Model Reps for this school year! And, to make it even better, her best friend that she brought with her also happened to be one of our Class of 2009 Senior Model Reps. (honestly….this wasn’t rigged!). Anyway, we got lucky and caught a beautiful spring afternoon in Portland. The cherry blossoms are in bloom and it was absolutely gorgeous on the waterfront. Here’s a few out takes from their session.