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.”

As you already know, there have been lots of changes this year…new website, logo, blog.  Along with those changes, I had to make new business cards and decided to update my packaging.   I can’t show you the complete packaging yet until I put it all together to mail out.  That will happen though in the next few days.  Since some of you have been asking for pictures of these new items, I’ll give you a little preview in the meantime.

I really love the new business cards.  I designed and purchased these through Moo.com.  The reason I chose Moo.com is because you can upload your own pictures and have many different images on your cards instead of being restricted to one single style or type of card.   I have 25 different images on my cards, but you can see a few below.  I also purchased new cd mailers and some really cute packing tape.  I didn’t want some boring run of the mill packing tape, so I searched for some decorative tape.  I had no idea the varieties out there to choose from…so many decisions, but I went with Tapeswell.com.  Love, love, love all their cute styles!  Lastly, I ordered some thank you cards and a stamp, both with the new logo.  I really wanted the new packaging to reflect my style: fun, funky with a little bit of edge but some softness too.  :)

Let me know what you think so far, but definitely check back with me later when I put all the pieces together!!