Elise is an exciting, outgoing and personable young woman who comes from a wonderful family. I was so excited to shoot with her a few weeks back when the fall colors were slamming the world with golden hues. It was right after daylight savings, so we ended up shooting as the light quickly faded each evening, spanning over two days of short sessions instead of one longer session. It worked out because she lived (and we shot near) my house, so there wasn’t a lot of traveling involved…I think the results came out pretty dog-gone fun.

She is one of those people whom it is hard to take a bad photo of. Don’t you just hate that? Makes me jealous. Her natural smile is at a constant “on” state and she has no “off” button. I think God stuck a smile on her face and forgot to make her able to frown. Anyway, Elise is creatively talented and radiant.

I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I did taking them.

Elise, I am going to post the surprise photos up tomorrow on my blog. I think you’ll like them.

She climbed a tree and hung out for a while while I stood on my tippy-toes and tried to get some pics. Kinda cool, huh?

The Little Blue River, where we shot some of the time, was just beautiful this time of year.

It was chilly out, so we made use of the faux fur on her coat. Always looks good in black and white…

BIG brown eyes!

Laughing. Laughing. Laughing. It’s funny, she thought I was stupid for making her laugh at the rocks. I surely can’t make people laugh at my jokes, so rocks will have to do.

TALL grass and gorgeous sunset through the trees.

I loved the set with her hat and the leather jacket… It is sooo fresh.

Laying on the wicker on the front porch. Too fun!

Get out of the mulch! She is hanging onto the rails of her front porch and standing on the red mulch. I think I stepped on some irises…woops!

Laugh at the tree. Laugh at the tree…not that tree, the OTHER tree!

Weeeeeee!

I am going to try something new…a slideshow. If you guys want to check it out and let me know what you think, I’d appreciate it. I know I still have to make the whole interface pretty and I am lousy at choosing tunes, but please be open about other suggestions, ok?

Thanks!!

Click the picture to be taken to see the slideshow!

Okay, so I just posted a TON of Carrie photos and I have lots more that I won’t post. I know you all probably get sick of having to download all these photos. Anyway, today I wanted to post some other fun ones from that day. Let me know what you think, my faithful blog-stalkers…
Her little sister, Allison, needed some quick pics for her Facebook. It is always a good thing to have cool Facebook pics.

Here’s my new Facebook pic!

Here is Carrie trying to be like me. I just don’t understand seniors these days….always trying to be like me. HA!

Some shots of the sisters.

From far left: The Pretty One, The Not-so-pretty One

Little sis, big sis, and Carrie…okay, it’s not big sis, but really that’s their mom!