New Friends & New Beginnings

Two graduation shoots, two gorgeous girls, two new friends, two new futures...that is a perfect way to describe these past 2 shoots that I have done and where these two wonderful women are headed.

I'll be the first person to admit that I pretty much haven't kept in that great of contact with people I went to high school with, which brings me to Jessica.  Jessica and I knew each other in high school, but we were more acquaintances than actual friends.  Once high school was over we still remained in contact, we'd comment each other randomly on Myspace , (when Myspace was the "cool" social network), and then of course everyone switched to Facebook, so then we'd comment each other on Facebook and we'd always say, "We have to get together and have lunch."  Well 4 years out of high school and 4 years of saying let's get lunch, we finally did. Jess and I sat down for a lunch/dinner to catch up and discuss her graduation shoot.  Which then resulted in Khaye (who I have known since middle school) and I getting in contact to book her  graduation shoot and then that evolved into ME breaking out of my little bubble of my little world that only consisted of Work,School,Family & my boyfriend, to actually making new friends who are beautiful down to earth genuine women.  Now that I have explained the "evolution" of how I came to photograph and become friends with these two lovely ladies here are some of my favorite images from their awesome sessions that we did.

Khaye was an absolute gem to work with, she is so easy going and is definitely a natural model.  We had the pleasure of shooting her session at the UNLV campus and it was such a perfect location.  There were so many different areas to shoot at and the weather was absolutely perfect.  Khaye, her friend Taylor and I were all shocked at how hot it actually was during the shoot, but this is Vegas and one day it's

cold the next day it's hot.

Then there was Ms. Wilde aka: Jessica.  I like to refer to her as Ms. Wilde, because it suits her perfectly. Jess is simply wild, but with an "e" attached.  Jessica's shoot was a blast, from the random people around the UNLV campus photographing plants, to contemplating "borrowing" the admin cart so we could drive around campus instead of walking, the little boys in choir watching us as we staged her card shot, and of course to the countless "Kbyeee's."

The weather was a little dramatic with us, with the wind and chance of rain I was a bit stressed, but in the end her images came out perfect.  The lighting was spot on because of the clouds over head and we wrapped up just in time before the storm clouds rolled in.  Out of the entire shoot, my two favorite shots are where Jessica is sitting barefoot and where she threw a deck of cards in the air.  The barefoot photo is just so natural and effortless, and the deck of cards shot was one of the funniest shots we did because it was a tad windy so we only had a limited amount of time to try and get the shot.  So we started out with her throwing leaves to make sure everything was set up perfectly and then on the first try with the cards we succeeded.

 

Both of these women were awesome to work with. I feel so blessed to be able to have friends like them and to be able to be apart of their celebration.

Congratulations to you both on becoming a part of UNLV's Graduating Class of 2010!