Victoria Bennett ::: Senior

Vickie and I have been planning this shoot for as long as I can remember! Which means we have been looking forward to this for forever and ever! Vickie was my intern last year as well as in my small group in the Young Womens ministry that I lead back home...and is soooo amazing! I'm so glad I have gotten to know her so well in the past year as she is one of a kind. She has some of the best style I've ever seen packed into one person. As well an awesome gift in photography. And the cherry on top is that she is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet! Her heart is huge! I'm really excited where she is headed in her life with getting her business up and running during her last year of highschool and now with graduating really being able to take off with it! I'm sure she'll go far! :) Vickie, I love you!!
Here are her gorgeous pics and a **SLIDESHOW** of all the favorites!

Haroula Kouklakis ::: Senior

Two weeks ago while I was in Chicago I headed out to Indiana to shoot Haroula's senior pics! From our emails it sounded like the place that she wanted to shoot at was incredible! Well it was worth the drive when we arrived at this gorgeous huge park! She knew what she was talking about!
Haroula was SO much fun to shoot, I finally just had to tell myself to stop shooting cause I was getting SO many shots...almost as many as a wedding! ha! She had such amazing style and was up for anything even shooting on top of a trash heap! ha!
Here are her pics!
Also check out here ***SLIDESHOW HERE***

Abby Newell!

I met Abby about 4 years ago exactly, when I was graduating highschool she was graduating 8th grade. Abby, her sister Bethany, and their mom came to drop off my cap and gown for the homeschool graduation ceremony that I was a part of. We hadn't ever met before, yet they sat on our porch and we all talked for 2 straight hours! Destined to be friends I tell you! :) Well, since then I've shot her sisters, Sarah and Bethany's senior pics...now Abby's turn! Abby is soooo wonderful and has one of the most amazing hearts I've ever seen! She is a phenomenal worship artist and and planning on heading down to Kansas City this fall to be a part of IHOP (International House of Prayer) worship school. I'm so proud of her and can't wait to see where she goes in life!! Here are her amazing pics! I LOVE her style!







Here is her slideshow too...***CLICK HERE***

Taylor Lee

A couple weeks ago at the end of the last internship my intern Vickie and I headed out to do a senior/headshot/model shoot for Taylor Lee! I really don't do this super often and was swamped with weddings during the summer so this shoot gave a nice little change to my constant shooting! Taylor and her mom met us downtown Chicago for a shoot all around town! I definitely could have shot Taylor...AND her mom all day! They were such models and completely a breeze to work with! I love it when people bring things that are TOTALLY them to the shoot too...
Taylor is seriously into Volleyball so she broke out her outfit plus some awesome skills onto the beach! We had so much fun! Check out her gorgeous pics here!!!











Here is her slideshow!!! Enjoy!

Sarah Sarah everywhere!

I did a (college) senior shoot for my friend Sarah Newell last week with Kristen and it was sooo much fun! You might recognize her a little bit because she looks alot like her sister and my friend Bethany who's shoot I did last year! Check it out **here**! Anyways..all throughout the shoot it was hilarious because Bethany would tell Sarah to do something like put her hair this way or move this and I would do it confusingly...LOL! When I get in the zone..sometimes I get slightly spacey! haha! :) Sarah was so much fun to shoot though and was so stylish in her different outfit changes! This is her last year at The Moody Bible Institute and she just got back from a couple months being in El Salvador which is just sooo awesome!! She really got a chance to minister to a ton of people and see so many lives changed! Here is her slideshow!

Today has been a crazy day!!! The family was gone the whole day so I had the house to myself and got a TON of work done until the power went out for 2 hours because of a INSANE storm! It was the best for me though because I decided to read for awhile and then got my office and bedroom cleaned...then the power came back on for 10 minutes and then went off for the rest of the night so I went out for Sushi by myself which is fun because then I listen to the other customers conversations and I've always been a big listener so it's so fun to hear about what they are doing and what business things they're doing! I know...pretty crazy..but it's fun and you can learn so much!! Then I went and worked out for awhile and came back home and the power is back on!!! YAY!!!! Internet again! It was sooo great being away from it for awhile and NOT being able to get on it even if I wanted to! Simple living is really good sometimes!:)