Travis is currently choosing between NINE colleges.  He is certain to do great things!

Guys are so easy to shoot–minimal outfit changes, no worries about hair and wind…we knocked out Travis’s portraits in 45 minutes!

Garden of the Gods has such awesome backdrops!

Brooke is sooooo pretty!

Check out the color of those eyes!

I loved this door!

This would normally be where I wrap up a sneak peek, but I had too many favorites!

She is so incredibly beautiful!  I can’t believe she’s more comfortable behind the camera than in front of it!

When I spotted this little log and got excited, she walked right over to it and hopped up on it like this.  So totally adorable!

We found lots of great little spots…

I completely adore the color of the weeds in this shot!

There’s a great spot of unused train tracks next to the main train tracks through town that’s perfect for pictures.  (I’m a sissy when it comes to train track safety and feel compelled to point out that these shots are from an area that is used to hold cars with plaques that say things like “property of the railroad museum.”)

That museum property makes such a good prop!

Savannah is definitely a photographer.  Because just out of frame in this shot is a big pile of dog-poo.  But it was the only patch of ground that would work for this shot, so she handled it like a champ!  (And then went home to bathe in bleach.)

Right off the pages of a magazine…

Ummm…yeah.  I would kill for eyes like those!

She was a natural model.  Her smiles and expressions were always exactly right!

Here’s one of his fantastic shots of Andrea (we spent some quality time under this tree escaping the rain):

Another “hide from the rain” strategy!

Andrea is so cute and fun, I knew we needed a trip to the orange wall. (Don’t get me started on how jealous I am that Andrea can run around in drizzle for an hour and still have hair that looks this good!)

Manitou Springs has so many hidden spots:

This is my favorite. Check out that light! (Kudos go to Nic for being Reflector Master on this one.)

Another new fun photo frame option:

Thanks again, Andrea, for being so easy to photograph! We hope you enjoy your senior year!

We shot her senior portraits yesterday at Helen Hunt Falls in Colorado Springs. It was my first time at the park and I couldn’t believe how cool it was!

Aren’t her eyes amazing?!

My total fave from the shoot:

We decided to go to my favorite spot in Colorado Springs–not Manitou or Garden of the Gods or downtown, but the fields, barns, and fences of Falcon just east of the Springs.  It meant braving the crazy woman that wanted to know exactly what these pictures were for (rural Colorado being hot on the terrorist hit list), but it was so worth it.

She’d never had her portrait taken by a professional photographer before, so Justine said she was a little nervous.  Well, I have never seen anyone so natural in front of a camera!  She’s a total pro.

I love this shot as she tries to stop laughing:

(You’d never know from the smile that there were a couple of dogs behind that fence desperate to eat her.)

And we’ll end with my favorite from the day: