I photographed little Sebastian over the weekend and had a blast. What a cute kid! After some set up I photographed him for about an hour which is a lot of time for a 10 month old. I’m never really sure how kids will respond to me and the camera but I think he loved it. I always tell parents of little ones that they are in charge of the photo shoot. Sometimes you get an hour, sometimes 15 minutes, sometimes less. He was very interested in the camera as you can see in a few photos down. We ended on the grass in the front yard with him crawling toward me, then on me reaching for the camera the whole time. Not shy or intimidated at all, I even got a hug! What a great way to end an awesome photo shoot.

On Sunday I photographed Baillie for her Sr. photos out at Pontiac Lake Recreation Area and then some engagement photos fore Annalise and Mike at Dodge Park. Fall was in the air, great light, great sky awesome subjects.

I was lucky enough that Anna found me in a Google search and had her mom contact me about photographing her senior portraits. She is from the central Michigan area, north of Flint, but wanted to have photographs of herself shot in and around Ann Arbor, especially the graphitti ally. If you have hung out in A2 at all you know the one, off Liberty near State. So tonight we met up on a wonderful fall evening, temps in the 50′s, to make some real cool photographs together. A big thank you to her mom for holding a light for me at times as I usually don’t work with an assistant. We hung out in the ally for quite some time and then hit up Starbucks for a coffee and change of clothes before walking to another ally/parking area that had a cool look to it. We ended in one of the parking structures like I usually do and made what I think is the best photo of the night (3rd image down). Anna was real easy to work with and was a good sport even when a little chilly when I wanted to get the light just right for the shot through the broken window. Especially since I couldn’t go inside, you know the whole trespassing thing, and was leaning into the window with the camera and just my hands then guessing on the angle of the shot. Love how the image of that below came out. I hope to shoot many more sr. photos in 2011 so if interested give me a shout!

Jennifer, JC Westwood on FB,  mentioned a while ago that she had a dress she wanted to be photographed in by some water. Ok cool, but it had to be put on hold. Monday I called her and asked if she could shoot on Tuesday after hearing it would be 87 out and windy. So this was kind of a last minute shoot. All I knew was we wanted shots of this dress with water. I decided Monday night Island Lake Recreation Area would be a good spot. So we packed up and drove there with no real planning or direction. It was a fun day of shooting and I am real happy with the resulting images. We are also working on a couple ideas that will take more planning and I hope to make those happen, stay tuned.