Well, 2008 has come and gone, and what a year it was. This is the time of year that we sift through a mountain of work from 2008 and try and narrow it down to our absolute favorites. It never fails, but emotions start to run high as we get down to our absolute favorite shots, and the fur flies.
After the dust settles, however, Charlotte and I have always managed to agree and compromise, and the resulting collections are incredible.
Over the next few days I’ll be highlighting her different portrait galleries as we finish them.
The gallerie du jour for this post is her 2009 high school senior gallery. Charlotte senior photos are one of a kind. She has the innate ability to create authentic, relaxed portraiture of subjects who are perhaps the most notorious for being self-conscious and hesitant to appear “uncool”: the 18-year-old American teenager.
In our sales sessions, her portraits inspire squeals of excitement and conversation from our seniors. Needless to say, their parents are often speechless at these sudden outbursts of communication, as they had grown accustomed to one-word-answers, grunts-while-texting and eye-rolling as the standard mode of communication from their kids!
I was no different. My mother lovingly referred to me as “The Ogre” from 13 to 18. It’s hard to believe now since you can’t shut me up, but my standard mode of communication was grunting and avoidance of eye contact. So I get it, seniors. We get you. And that’s why we’re successful at capturing who you really are, not some idealized version of you, because the real you: is pretty cool.
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