I must admit, I work with some pretty gorgeous girls at the coffee shop!! Rachel agreed to do a fun, senior portrait style, photo shoot with me yesterday – I was so excited to be taking photos that I didn’t care about the gusting wind and threatening sprinkles!! Move over yucky weather, I want to take some pretty pictures!!

Thanks again, Rachel for being my model. :-)

Class of 2011 – get excited for senior pictures because I am ready!!

She had been to the coffee shop before – I remembered her name. She asked if I played volleyball because she was looking for someone to play with or go antiquing with. I told her I would go antiquing, but I’m not very agile on the volleyball court.

We made dates, we rescheduled dates, we cancelled dates and FINALLY, on Friday, we had ice cream. And it was fabulous.

And then I made her model for me so I could try out my new lens. And practice with an old one. Isn’t she cute?

p.s. I’ve decided I LOVE backlighting.

The first three are with my 16-35mm lens.

And the next three are with my new 85mm lens!!

As Neil Diamond once said, “Thank the Lord for the night time.” And that is exactly what Schuyler and I did tonight – we squeezed in a fun photo session where we played with some awesome night-time lighting. Schuyler is moving to CA in a few days and all of us at the coffee shop are going to miss him terribly. Enjoy the photos!!

I love my photography job. And I also love my coffee shop job. I love them both because I get to work with such fun, awesome people!!

I work with Alex one evening a week and it is not enough!! Sometimes I wish she was not a senior in high school so that she could work more hours and I could see her more often! However, since she IS a senior in high school, that gave us an excuse to go around and do some fun photos this weekend! :-)

Don’t you think this next photo could fit right into a clothing catalog??

My one and only senior from Rosholt this year is my neighbor (and some sort of cousin) Landon! I love coming to Rosholt to do photos because there are so many fun places to do photos either at my parents’ farm or on relatives’ land!!

Landon has been super busy this summer playing basketball – he has probably traveled more this summer than I have in my high school and college career combined!!

I could tell Landon was more comfortable with the serious look, but we had to get a couple smiling ones in for mom!! :-)

I thought for sure I would have to bring a ladder with me to do Landon’s photos – to give you an example of how tall he is on this next photo, the ledge he has his elbows on was at eye-level for me. I looked pretty silly with my elbows up there showing him how to pose!!

I told you Landon was busy with basketball this summer, but I forgot to mention that he is AWESOME at basketball! He scored his 1,000th point early on in his Junior year. A lot of guys don’t even get that in their Senior year!!

Thanks for pretending to have a good time taking photos yesterday, Landon! :-)

Enjoy these images – you’ll be able to see the rest of them by the end of this week!!