Cassi’s senior session was at her home—a gorgeous custom “Tuscan Villa” home with beautiful photo opportunities EVERYWHERE. Of course, lighting trumps location every time, so the first priorities were to hunt for the great lighting and place my beautiful subject in that lighting with elements and “pieces” of the gorgeous surroundings I had available to work with.

Cassi (her full name is Cassandra—which is as beautiful as she is) has an amazing sense of style and had some fabulous outfits/accessories and shoes picked out when I arrived. She also chose the STYLE SESSION with makeup done by our on-location makeup artist, Sara W. Cassi has an amazingly photogenic look—and she can show a classic side as well as a fun and trendy side.

Narrowing down to faves was hard—but here they are, our top favorites from her senior photo session in El Dorado Hills:

She chose some bright, bold colors (which are IN this season—have you noticed?) and she combined them with some great fashionable styles that were fun to photograph. One outfit in particular was very “bohemian chic, very “Free People” style, and we chose to photograph it in a nature setting by the river.

Her green dress combined with boots were so awesome in the setting we were in—like I said, Cheyenne has style and knows what colors look awesome on her! She had her boyfriend with her the day of the shoot—so we shot a few of them together too and I’m sure you’ll agree that they are a handsome couple! :)

Here are just a few of our favorites from her senior pictures, set in Folsom:

I’m always so amazed at the change in a teen in just a few short years—M’Kayla has grown up into a beautiful senior since the last time I saw her and she has the most GORGEOUS green eyes you’ve ever seen! She chose the “Style Session” (make up by Sara W) and the clothes she chose for her session were AMAZING and stylish. Wait until you see the skirt ensemble we photographed by the river.

M’Kayla’s mom is a fashion-ista herself and knew that this season bright-bold colors are IN mixed with white jeans, so for the updated “sisters” image that she likes to get each year her girls graduate she chose exactly that—bright colors!

Here are are favorites from her session—and a few from the past session we did when Alexis graduated including the sisters “then” and the sisters “now”. So fun to see the changes! Savannah is NEXT!

Blake was SO easy to photograph—he’s very photogenic and has a HUGE smile that is genuine and contagious. The truth is, in our business, the girls are just more excited about senior portraits because it’s like a mini “model session”…and, well, the guys are usually doing it to please mom for her senior portrait of him. But Blake was super willing and easy-going—and he did it with that amazing and gorgeous smile of his! He was great to work with.

He was a fabulous football player for the Trojans—so capturing his personality (or, “game face” as I call) in his jersey was a definite must. I’ve enjoyed photographing all of the graduating seniors in this family—here are a few of our favorites from Blake’s senior pictures:

So. Many. Fabulous. Catch-ups.

Starting with NATALIE.

She made me laugh. She made me smile. I was drawn into her world for 2 hours and I was so artistically inspired by her. She is the girl-next-door with charm and beauty and sweetness and personality that takes you for a ride around the block without even stopping.

As a photographer I was mesmerized and could have shot her all day long. But alas it ended on a sweet note dotted with a mustache ring from a candy vendor she picked up along the way…sometime in her busy and fun life in between classes at high-school and dancing.

She wants to break into acting. She needs to. Because she can pull out a million different faces and looks that would make any Hollywood agent giddy. She will be moving down to the LA area after graduating from high school in a few short weeks and if she makes it big you can say you saw her here on this little blog first.

So without further ado, meet Miss Natalie…in a special feature that’s all about her…

and her little dog Brielle.