A few weeks ago, the website Seniorologie announced they would be celebrating their one year birthday!  In addition to celebrating all month with birthday related giveaways and posts, they wanted to see any other photographers’ birthday concept shoots.    Early this week, I was soooo incredibly excited to see a birthday shoot that I put together featured on their website!   Click here for the Seniorologie post and read all about my inspiration for the shoot.    Then come back here and scroll down for more from this fun shoot!

Some of the fun details….cake topper, mini cameras, “Dots” rings!

Ribbons, and scrap paper confetti made with my shredder!

I don’t know about you guys, but I have a list for everything!  Sometimes 2 lists!  ;)  My doggie helper of the day!

When I decided to order 30 balloons, I didn’t even think about transporting them (which became a tangled mess)

and then where to keep them until the shoot!

I absolutely adore these little vintage looking cameras!

After all the prop preparation – it’s Makeup time!

And then finally….it all comes together!

I was trying not to duplicate images that were in the Seniorologie post, but I have to share this one again, because I literally have had this idea in my head for years!  I have always wanted to recreate different memorable movie scenes and this shoot was perfect to recreate the final scene from the movie “Sixteen Candles!”  Make a Wish!

Thanks to Leslie from Seniorologie for creating such an awesome resource for senior portrait photographers.  If it weren’t for your “birthday,” I probably wouldn’t have had a reason to pull this all together!

By the way…if anyone can get me access to a school (legally, of course), I have lots of other memorable movie scenes that I would love to recreate!

*wink, wink, but seriously!*  

And lastly, you must go watch the video from this shoot!!  and don’t miss the Outtakes!  :)

Makeup  - Makeup by Laura Briscoe

Models – Maili Lutz & Blake Hamlin

Class of 2013, don’t forget to schedule your senior portraits soon.  There is only a select number of spots available.  Please contact me very soon if you would like to schedule yours!

If you want to stay up to date with all the most recent sessions, click HERE and “LIKE.”

Super excited to have my first national feature!  Last week, while on vacation, I received a notification from Facebook.  Another photographer, Absurdly Normal Productions (love the name!), left this comment:

“I just saw a session you did on Senior Portraits forum. I was gonna comment on which ones I liked and realized I really liked all of them! Nice session! Love the choice of Green and the Black and White!!”

I sat there at dinner a little confused, because I didn’t know what he was talking about initially.  Then all of a sudden, it hit me and I realized that one of my sessions must have been featured and it was all I could do to contain my excitement!

As soon as I got back to the hotel room, I started scrolling through Facebook on my phone, but that was taking too long.  I got out the computer and went to Senior Portraits Forum and there it was!!!

To visit Senior Portraits Forum and see the entire feature, click HERE.

All of Tiffany’s original post, can also be seen HERE.

and one last image of Tiffany!

Before I leave you for the night, I’m sure that some of you may have noticed some significant changes on the website.  One of the biggest changes is that all sessions now include a Premier Ordering Session.   Now that I am doing in-person ordering appointments, I have lots of samples that I have ordered.  Come back soon and you’ll be the first to see some of them!  I’m super excited about these too, but really, still beyond excited about the Feature!  :)  Hopefully, I will get to share more with you soon!

Until next time…Good night!

I’m still looking for Spokesmodels for Class of 2013.  You can also nominate a senior girl to become a Spokesmodel.  I am accepting nominations now for Class of 2013 and only have a select number of spots available.  Please contact me very soon if you would like to nominate a Class of 2013 Senior Girl or if you are a senior girl, click HERE to apply now.

If you want to stay up to date with all the most recent sessions, click HERE and “LIKE.”

I’m soooo happy to announce that the new website and blog are finally here!   It was a lot of late nights and a lot of work, but I can’t wait for everyone to see it.   If you are looking for any of the old blog entries, no need to go back to the old blog.  You can find everything here!  Please take some time to look around the site and let me know what you think!

I’ll be posting more later.  I have some exciting photo shoots coming up later this month, plus I need to finish editing the shoot from Sunday.  If you missed the sneak peek on Facebook – it’s right here!  Super excited to show off more from this one!

Check out the size of the image!  That’s one of the main reasons I wanted a new blog.   Now I can actually show you images as they should be seen and not small like my old blog.   All posts moving forward will have large images like the one below.

So that’s it for now – that’s the big announcement!  I hope you all like the new home for Tricia Toker Photography and I think the website address should be a lot easier to remember now.  :)