I love senior portrait season!  Senior portraits are definitely one of my favorite parts of being a photographer, and with a high school senior as gorgeous as Justine, it is a very easy job!

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: