Tonight was open house at my daughter’s school and I loved it!  I wanted to open her teacher’s new box of Expo markers and neatly print “Mrs. Christenson” on the board.  You see, I have loved school since … well as long as I can remember and a bachelors degree + a couple of master degrees later… well I obviously still love school.  I received a post on my Facebook / Twitter wall this morning that brought a smile to my face.  One of my favorite students (a real sweet and smart kiddo who is now a beautiful grown-up  and mommy) remembered her awesome insect collection she had created in AP Biology class.  Other students (who are now Facebook Friends) chimed in that years later after medical school, law school, and becoming teachers themselves… they too still have or think about creepy crawlies.  I swear, senior memories and laughter makes me giddy.

The SENIOR year of high school is such a fun time.  The pathway of success is leading to so many adventures!   I am excited to help our area high school seniors celebrate this special time in their life by documenting a little bit of who they are at this point in their journey.  I am lucky to have at each of our area high schools, a junior/senior who shares timeless images with friends and in doing so gets some free goodies of their own.  Lately it seems that our reps love to have their own “senior rep cards” and I oblige…. such beautiful kiddos!

If you know of a high school  junior or senior who would like to be our studio representative, please send them over!

It is one of my favorite times of the year, the start of school.  I think I have loved the start of school since I was a 5 year old kindergardener.  There is  just nothing like packing your school box, labeling all the supplies, and unzipping a brand new backpack.   Oh yea, and the shiny first-day-shoes are second to none.  So with school in session, it is time to bring about the 2011-12  High School Senior Photoshoot Campaign!  This is what I give my reps (for FREE of course):

-Fashion photoshoot
-Acordian albums
-Prints
-Cards

With that said, if you or someone you know is a Junior/Senior High School cutie in the San Antonio area (San Antonio, Boerne, Schertz, and New Braunfels)  and loves school, send them my way!  This year, I only need 3 more reps and senior sessions are booking fast!

I absolutely love high school senior photoshoots.  i don’t get the opportunity to do them often because wedding season in San Antonio tends to be year round.  But this love is perhaps fostered because one of my favorite loves was being a high school science teacher for so many years.

High school seniors are so fun, funky, fresh, and full of life, I swear when I am around them I feel 20 years younger, hip, funny, and have more skip in my step.  This is Miss R and she is fun and all of those things previously mentioned.  I met Miss R while doing a photoshoot and she loved the click-click-click of my shutter.  On this day she asked if I would be willing to take her senior pictures for her. This event was nearly a year and a half ago.  She knew she wanted me to capture some images for her, she just simply waited for the time to pass when she could officially call herself a “senior”.  Miss R showed up to the photoshoot and her hair was beautiful and her make-up was just right.  She was ready to rock the camera.  Mom and dad were not so pleased that she did not straighten her hair to perfection, perhaps in rememberance of the little girl pony tails (it was always so hard to let go).  However, after the prints came, they (along with the perfectness that Miss R and myself new they would be) realized, “Yes, it was perfect…perfect for us”.

This helps me to think about the fact that sometimes we continue to wait to take a photo because we need to cut/color our hair, loose weight, buy a new outfit, wait for the perfect light, wait for a pimple to go away, etc.  Instead we need to just capture the moment for what it is and who we are.

Congratulations Miss R and lots of fun as the adventure begins!