Kelly '11 "BOYD CO SR."

OMGoodness, Kelly is such a "SUPERMODEL" I think we could've photographed her all day long!!! She is absolutley GORGEOUS and I think her Mom was super sweet too and really helped out so much during the session. Kelly brought in really beautiful clothes to wear for her session and did a wonderful job putting it all together to get lots of different looks! I think she has great taste in clothes and her style is fabulous!! I think most everything she wore was from the "ROSE TREE". She came in for a consultation before her session and I think that gave her some ideas of what she wanted to wear. It's always good to bring outfits from all the different seasons, since your senior portraits will represent your entire senior year not just what the weather is like at the time of your session. I loved the close-up pose of her in the hat, but the only bad part about it is you can't see the outfit that she was wearing in this pose. OMGoodness......she had on a "KILLER" pair of black studded stilletto strappy shoes & jean shorts that definitely proved the old ZZtop song "SHE'S GOT LEGS"!!!! LOL!! Also the white skirt outfit was just the perfect outfit for an idea I had been tossing around in my mind. I was going for sort of like a shabby chic cottage look with a touch of victorian elegance (plus I got to use my new little chandelier). Ha-ha!! I know that Bill wasn't too happy with me wanting to bring the old doors in from outside, but after saying one of his famous lines he carried them in anyways....yeessSSS DEAR!!! He is simply the B E S T, even though he had to bring out the wasp & hornet spray due to one of the doors had a wasp nest on it!!! YIKES!!! Sometimes I do feel really bad for all the things that I have him do during a session, climbing ladders and then getting down in the floor and all kinds of stuff like that!! I come up with most of the ideas for poses and backgrounds & such then he figures out a way to make it all happen! So together I guess we make a pretty good team, or at least he hasn't put me out of the camera room yet! LOL!!! I think Kelly has sooOOOOOo many good poses that it will definitely be hard to narrow down their choices. Please accept our apologies for being a little behind schedule, but as some of you may already know Bill was in the hospital this past week. He is doing better now that he is home and will have to take it kind of easy for a few days. Thank you to everyone for being patient with us and for being so understanding thru all of this. Well I hope that everyone enjoys this "SNEAK-PEEK" of Kelly's senior session! I think that she is still with her family at the beach maybe, I hope that they are all having lots of fun! Enjoy :)

"Holly 2011" Boyd Co. Sr.

Holly is a very talented artist as you can tell by the pose with some of her award winning art pieces!!! Thanks Mom for going back home to get those, I think they really turned out nice. She is also extremely creative and is really into video games and even wants to get a degree in designing or creating new video games (I can't remember exactly what its called). Her session was a lot of fun and it was so nice of her best friend Jaime to come along and be her support or "STYLIST" for the day!!! LOL!!! I ended up having a customer come in during her session and had to leave Jaime in charge of setting up the ones with the video games and I thought she did a fabulous job, Thanks Jaime! I especially loved the close-up pose in the purple dress & pearls and also the one with the hair blowing with the American flag!!! We photographed Holly's older brother Brad when he was a senior at Boyd County, I think he was a Distinguished Leader too!!! I'm sure their parents are extremely proud of both of them. It was good to see your Mom again and I think she knew every single word to the songs we were playing during your session. I think we must have the same taste when it comes to music & buying CD's. Well I hope that everyone enjoys Holly's "Sneak-Peeks" and more to come later. ; )

2011 BCDL "Jaime"

Jaime has the most bubbly personality and so much fun to photograph, not to mention she is very photogenic as well. Lots of times Jaime was ready for the next pose almost faster than we were, but hey we are about as slow as turtles these days! LOL!!! I absolutely L O V E, L O V E, LOVED the pose in the orange skirt with the hair blowing!!!! She was willing not only to work in front of the camera, but was helping with all of the behind the scenes work too!! We appreciated all of her help moving props and backgrounds in and out....you really didn't have to do that Jaime but you were sooOOOoo sweet & so much help to us and we "THANK YOU"!! :)) Also Aunt Janet was very helpful setting up the sports equip. for her volleyball pose, that was so nice of her too. Then Ms.Jacy was Jaime's "STYLIST" if you will (ha,ha,he-he),she also created a couple of poses for Jaime to do without even meaning to!!! I think we all had a good time during her session. Then the very next day Jaime came back in with her friend Holly and was her "Ms. Jacy" for the day, so she got to experience the whole senior session thing from all sides! We photographed Jaime's older brother Jacob when he was a senior and it was nice to visit with the family and have the opportunity to photograph Jaime for her senior portraits! I hope that everyone enjoys this little "Sneak-Peek" of her images with lots more good ones to come!

Bicycle safety

It is with great saddness that I am writing this blog. Last Tuesday evening Theresa's cousin grandson was killed in a bicycle accident. Apparently the chain came off the bike and he couldn't stop. There wasn't any great speed and he wasn't showing off. He started down the driveway and couldn't stop, went across the road and hit a tree. He was not wearing a helmut, if he had been this story would probably have ended with, Brian got bruised up when he hit that tree across the road. This was a kid that played football, baseball and basketball so he was use to safety equipment. He had a new dirt bike but his grandmother hadn't let him ride it because she was afraid that he would get hurt. So few people seem to realize the danger of riding a bicycle. I know that the helmut looks funny, but it can save lives, so please make sure that this important safety device is used.

TREY 2011 "BC SENIOR"

Trey came in for his senior session last week as part of the Boyd County Distinguished Leader Program. He chose to be more serious for most of his poses and we don't have a problem with that. We got a few smiles thru out his session, but all and all most of my favorites of him were the more serious looks he was giving. He just had that the "LOOK" and has so many really good poses!!!! I think that really reflected his personality much better too, he is really into History, Religion, Archeology and that sort of thing. I especially loved the one of him with the old world map!!! Trey was a bit nervous as we started out, but as the session went on he began to relax. Considering this was the first time he had been here, so that is perfectly normal. We did his Mom's senior portraits (so that tells you we have been doing this for awhile) as well as senior portraits for lots of other members of his family!! It was good to see Amber again, I had no idea when Trey scheduled his session who he was, I just never made the connection. OMGoodness, Amber looks exactly like her Mom and we just love their whole family....such good people!!!! Well I hope that Amber, Trey, Connie and everyone else enjoys this little sneak-peek of his session!!! :)

BCDL 2011 .... AUSTIN

This session with Austin ended up being so much fun! He has such a good personality and was so easy to work with, and has a great sense of humor too!!! I thought his baseball pose was one with lots of attitude...I think he had his game face on! LOL!!! It's always tuff doing those serious poses when inside your wanting to bust out laughing, and that's usually what happens right after the shot too. But Austin did great no matter weather he was smilin', chillin', being serious or just being himself!!! Baseball is such a big part of his life and I think that is when we had the most fun during his session too. Especially the bat poses....Oh & by the way Austin those turned out GREAT too! We have photographed him many times for different sports. Until recently when he came to the studio for Proms & Homecoming Dances it had been years since we had seen him. Now he's all grown up!!! It was back in his younger days of Little League Baseball, Boyd Co.JFL & Summit Elementary Basketball that I remember him the most. We always enjoyed working with his Dad as "COACH" on all those projects, but needless to say that has been awhile back. OMGoodness, time sure does fly!!! I hope that Tim, Kim, Austin and everyone else enjoys his little "Sneak-Peeks"!

Mark "BCHS SENIOR 2011"

OH HAPPY DAY, and Happy 4th of July!!!! We have been having technical difficulties like you wouldn't believe this week!! I wanna start out by apologizing to Mark for taking so long on getting his images posted! We have fought with our computer all week long. You would think since its only been 1 yr. ago that we bought the most "Super-Duper" model out there that this wouldn't be happening.... Bill has worked endless hours this week, installing and un-installing several times about every single component & software that we have on this thing!!!! But anyways I am just thankful that we have it sort'a, halfway almost there, or at least enough that I can get Mark's sneak-peeks posted. Well let me just start off by saying Mark was the most delightful, likeable, fun, pleasant, polite person to be around!!! He is also a very talented musician as well, we were treated to him playing & singing a song or 2 for us during the session. And we loved the Alan Jackson song "Don't Rock the Jukebox" and then "Amazing Grace" was absolutely beautiful and really touched our hearts more than you can imagine! Sessions such as this one is why we love doing what we do, when you get the chance to meet such a fine person like Mark. Plus he seemed to enjoy the session just about as much as we did photographing him! Bill & I just know that he will do great things with his life, for he is certainly on the right track!! Well I better wrap it up or else I'm gonna be right back into my long drawn out ramblings. It was such a pleasure to meet Mark and his Momma & I hope that everyone enjoys these! :)