This was a bit out of the norm as far as photo sessions go for me, but I really had a fun time photographing the lovely Ms. Carson!  Most of my portrait work consists of bellies, babies and young children, but I’m so glad I had the opportunity to photograph this exciting time for this beautiful young lady… she is graduating high school this year and moving into that next stage of independence and mystery college cuisine.  Though, I told Carson that she will have the most popular dorm room at the University since her Dad taught her lots of his cooking magic from his days as a chef!  No Ramen noodles and Cocoa Puffs for this girl day and night!

For those of you wondering, we did the shoot at the very modern, sleek stylin’ Mondrian Hotel in South Scottsdale.  Lots of colors and fantastic scenery at our disposal, not to mention the awesome Civic Center grounds are right in the “backyard” of the resort!

Carson, I so enjoyed getting to spend a couple hours with you!  Best wishes for the start of an amazing future!

Joyfully, Erin

It’s been ages since I have done a senior shoot, so when I got the opportunity to take this session, I hopped on it!  

We shot at a very cool location in the desert… after all, that’s where we live and might as well embrace it, right!  One great thing about AZ is all the mountains… not the “carpet of green” type of mountains, but colorful boulder type mountains!  John wanted to do his photos in the red rocks right here in the heart of Phoenix… great choice if you ask me!  I love how the location added a lot of masculinity to the backgrounds!  Anyways, I love to encourage my clients to think outside the box for their sessions… locations other than the traditional park setting.  Don’t get me wrong, parks are great and I still shoot at them all the time.  But there are lots of places that will add awesome backdrops to your photos that don’t have an ounce of green  

John is a fantastic saxophone player, can sing (the tux is for that), is involved in the discipline of martial arts (i can’t remember which one exactly, but let me tell you, he knows his stuff!), loves the Lord, and has a great dog (Tosh… hope i spelled that right?!) who came along for some final shots of our session.  Thanks for being so easy to photograph John!  Best wishes for an awesome first year away at University!

I love this photo!  I was in high school when I first started to love reading the Bible… not just at church on Sundays, but on my own.

This last one is just funny…

Thanks again John!  Enjoy the cool weather up at NAU!!