Hi again everyone!

Are you enjoying your weekend?  It’s kind of gross and rainy here in Georgia, so I hope that wherever you are, that you are having a great weekend!

If you have been following along, I hinted around last blog post that I had one final outfit of Kendall’s to share, so thank you for coming back!

I remember when Kendall first started planning her senior session, she shared with me that she wanted to have some pictures taken with her dog Dutchess.  Kendall rescued Dutchess and as you can imagine is super special to her.  Needless to say, I was so excited.  You all know how ridiculous I am taking pictures of my own dogs, so I was beyond ecstatic to incorporate her dog into her senior portraits.  And what a sweetheart Dutchess is!!

(and shout out to Melisa (Kendall’s mom) for making the floral collar!!!!  ❤️❤️❤️)

Hopefully, you’ll be seeing a lot more doggies on the blog soon.

I’m hoping to start photographing more dogs & of course, I cannot wait to share with you all!

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Today’s the day!  Kendall graduates from Grayson High School!!

Of all the seniors that I have photographed, I have known Kendall the longest.  I photographed her sister Kelsey in 2012!  It’s hard to believe that I met the Burrell Family when Kendall was in the eighth grade!

It really has been wonderful getting to know the entire family over the years.  I’ll miss all of our shoot planning!!  Melisa has always been a great partner in crime!

Hopefully we can squeeze in one more shoot before Kendall is off to Georgia Southern!!

For now, here’s her senior portraits!!  ❤️

Some of my favorites images below….the dress, the waterfall!!  ❤️❤️❤️

(Melisa/Kendall - the dress in the bathroom still makes me chuckle!)

I have one more outfit from the shoot that I’m going to share in a separate post.

Come back soon!  :)

Happy Graduation Day Kendall!!!  

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Hair & Makeup – Jennifer Milz

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Happy Monday after Thanksgiving everyone!!  :)

I haven’t been as on top of my blogging as I would like, so I’m trying to get caught up.  Hopefully, you’ll be hearing a lot from me in the next few weeks!

While I haven’t blogged Grayson High School’s Maili Lutz senior portraits yet, I am sure you will recognize her from some previous shoots.   Back in the summer, she was part of the Birthday Styled Shoot for Seniorologie.  Most recently, she was part of the “What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie” Styled Shoot.  I’ll have more of that shoot later though, because like I mentioned, I gotta go back a bit to Maili’s Senior Spokesmodel session!

Let’s take a look at Class of 2013 and Grayson Golden Rams Competition Cheerleader – Maili!

I cannot thank Maili and her mom Tammie enough.   They have helped me out soooo many times and more than that, they are truly, truly nice genuine people.    Want to see more Maili??    Come back soon to see some of the super fabulous products from Maili’s order session!

Interested in your own senior session and you know Maili personally?  Ask her about the special discount that she has to offer as a Tricia Toker Photography Senior Spokesmodel.

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

Until next time – Toodles!

Makeup:  Laura Briscoe

No TRICKS here…this is definitely a TREAT!  Happy Halloween everyone and get ready for some BOOtiful images!!

ok, I know, I know, but I couldn’t resist!  

I’ll stop now and just get on with it and show you more from Class of 2013 – Grayson High School – Kelsey Burrell’s senior portraits…

If you saw Part 1, you already know that Kelsey has been dancing for 15 years!  Here’s just a peek at what Kelsey can do!

one of Kelsey’s favorites…

One of my favorites.  Now, let me tell you, Kelsey is one of those girls that can get her leg WAY up there.

I caught this one in mid action though, but what I love is the expression on her face and the colors, so I had to include it!

When I posted the one on the right, I heard a few remarks about a resemblance to Taylor Swift!  Anyone else agree?  

Seriously Kelsey?!?  Could this one be any more amazing?!  :)

and these!  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!

See what I mean – just stunning!!!

Thanks again to her mom Melisa for all of her help and of course Laura for her makeup skills!

This won’t be the last you see of Kelsey though!  I still have to show you some of the fabulous products from her order session soon!!  :)

Makeup:  Laura Briscoe

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

See you next time!  and be sure to keep all of your ghouls and goblins close!

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.”

Grayson High School’s Casey Arnold is one of those girls who is truly just as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside.

We were first introduced to each other by Makeup Artist Laura Briscoe.  Casey is a very close friend of Laura’s sister Connor.  When we were looking for someone to do hair for the styled shoot, Laura mentioned that she had someone in mind that was awesome and could do just about anything when it comes to hair styling.

If you’ve seen any of the images from the styled shoot, you know that Casey did a tremendous job!  Her talents don’t end there though, because she will be graduating with honors in a few weeks!  :)

Before we get to Casey’s pics though, just a few words from the soon to be Class of 2012 graduate:

The close friendships I have made. Good thing a lot of my closest friends will be going to Kennesaw with me! oh, also my mom’s cooking! aha.

Casey – can’t say that I blame you on the 530a part!  ;)

Casey, I’m so happy that we met and I wish you all the best!  You’re going to love Kennesaw!

Makeup:  Laura Briscoe

Interested in your own senior session and you know Casey personally?  Ask her about the special discount that she has to offer as a {Twelve}12 Senior Spokesmodel.

I’m still looking for Spokesmodels for Class of 2013.  Please contact me very soon if you are interested or click HERE to apply now.

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

Until next time – Toodles!

I can’t believe it’s almost time for Class of 2012 to graduate!  I decided to specialize in Senior Photography back in the beginning of the school year and it’s crazy how quickly time has passed since then.  I’m really going to miss chatting with all these girls that I have gotten to know over the last several months.  Before graduation though, we have Prom!!  Have you seen how girls get asked to prom these days??  So many cool and creative ways!  As Prom season approached, it got me thinking about what more could I offer high school seniors.

Let me explain a little bit of how this shoot came to be.  Most of you already know that I once thought I would become a wedding photographer.  After about 6 weddings, I realized that wedding photography wasn’t for me.  I loved the getting ready part of the day and details though.  Then it occurred to me that I could document Prom or Homecoming like a wedding.  Why not?  Dresses, shoes, jewelry, getting ready!  All the things that I loved about photographing weddings and bonus, it all has to do with seniors!

You’ll have to excuse me – this post has A LOT of images!  :)

Thanks to Connor, Casey, David, Stephanie and Keimon for putting up with me!

Thank you so much to the Thompson (and Briscoe) family for welcoming me into your home and letting me document Connor’s last prom.  You all trusted me that day, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.  Not just for the photographs, but because as you know, you guys have all become like a second family, right down to little Clementine and Winston.  :)

Have a great week everybody!

Makeup:  Laura Briscoe

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

So here we are – Bailey Ferguson’s final appearance on the blog.  You may know her for playing defense on the Grayson High School Girls Varsity Lacrosse team, but I like to call her “goat whisperer.”  Ok, ok, that may sound a little dramatic, but it’s really true!

Let me back up a bit.  When I first started looking for locations for Bailey’s session, I remembered some pictures she had posted to Facebook.  They had some old buildings in the background and I asked her where the location was.  Lucky for me, it was the property of one her friends.  Bailey got us permission to photograph there and we met a few weeks later so I could check out the place.

The owner told me that we could jump the fence to get to the older buildings.  When Bailey and I got there, we had a choice, jump the fence or stand on the other side and not get to explore.  If you know me, I don’t jump fences and I have never been on the same side of a fence as any farm animals. Without hesitation, over the fence Bailey went.  A gaggle of goats headed her way and I held my breath, because I wasn’t sure what was about to happen.  Some of the larger goats approached Bailey first, and they simply walked up to her and let her pet them.  It was so cool!  At this point, I realized how lame I was on the other side of the fence and I took my little girly self and over the fence I went too.  I gotta say, goats are cute, really darn cute!  Who knew!

Fast forward to the day of our session and we find ourselves with the goats again.  This time though, there were 3-4 baby goats.  Oh My Goodness!  All of them loved Bailey…especially, one little girl goat. Everywhere Bailey went, the goat followed, saying “baaa” the whole way.

Now, baby goats are cute, but watch out, because what I didn’t know, they like to nibble things (like Bailey’s toes) and they eat things when they are unsupervised.  I had set down a notebook with 4 sheets of paper sticking out of it.  We couldn’t have been away from the notebook more than 5 minutes, I’m not kidding!  When we got back to the notebook – all of the sheets of paper were gone!  They literally ate the papers!  Lesson learned, watch your paper products around goats.  ;)

The Mahaffey Goats:

Let’s get back to Bailey now…

I love this one.  Bailey, you are simply stunning!!

And this one – Wow!

awww…back to our little goat friend.  I have to admit, this is a bit deceiving.  The little girl goat was so rambunctious, so catching her still was quite a task.  Bailey withstood a lot of nibbling to get these shots, but I love them, so I’m happy that she didn’t mind.

With graduation approaching, what will Bailey miss most?

“The thing that I’ll miss most is probably going to be being so close with the people that are my friends now…I’ll miss just being able to hang out with them whenever I want & I know that our friendships will change when we all separate for college which makes me sad. Also, FOOTBALL GAMES! They were so much fun and painting up with everyone to cheer on my friends every Friday is definitely something I’ll miss.”

Bailey, it really has been great getting to know you over the past few months.   I know you feel indecisive now, but don’t worry.  When you go off to Georgia Southern in a few months, I’m sure you will excel.  You have such a great, positive attitude and that will get you far!

Thanks to the Mahaffey’s for allowing us to shoot on their property!  We had such a blast!

If you have missed Bailey on the blog, you can check out Part one HERE and Part two HERE.  Come back soon, because Bailey will be the featured video on the home page!

Interested in your own senior session and you know Bailey personally?  Ask her about the special discount that she has to offer as a {Twelve}12 Senior Spokesmodel.

I’m still looking for Spokesmodels for both Class of 2012 and Class of 2013.  Please contact me very soon if you are interested or click HERE to apply now.

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

You wouldn’t know it was still a winter day in Georgia when I photographed Grayson High School’s Bailey Ferguson for her senior portraits.  Luckily, winter didn’t stick around long this year, so it was perfect weather for some cowboy boots and a little black dress!  

You, also, probably wouldn’t have guessed that cows and goats were only a few feet away from all this model behavior.  Sorry, but I am going to have to pull a Ryan Seacrest and make you wait…until next time for the goats.  ;)

Until next time…Toodles!

If you missed Bailey’s first appearance on the blog, you can check it out HERE.

Interested in your own senior session and you know Bailey personally?  Ask her about the special discount that she has to offer as a {Twelve}12 Senior Spokesmodel.

I’m still looking for Spokesmodels for both Class of 2012 and Class of 2013.  Please contact me very soon if you are interested or click HERE to apply now.

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

Meet Bailey Ferguson –  Grayson High School Lacrosse player, Luke Bryan fan and overall energetic, fun, and fearless girl!!  If you follow my page on Facebook, you have probably seen a preview of this beautiful high school senior already, but her images really don’t tell the whole story.  I have photographed lots of people willing to do anything to get the picture, but when Bailey and I had to climb a fence (with permission of course) to a pasture full of goats, I knew we were going to have fun together!  More of that later…let’s take a look at some fierceness first!

Oh, and let me say, Bailey totally tricked me.  She may have said she wasn’t sure if she could do the serious face…OMGoodness, are you kidding me…check this out!

I love me some serious looks, but Bailey looks just as fabulous with a smile!  Add the perfect amount of wind to the hair and she seriously looks like she could be on the cover of a magazine.  

Absolutely gorgeous, don’t you agree?!?!  :)That’s not all from Bailey…make sure you come back for more.  Besides, you don’t want to miss the goat story!  ;)

Until next time…have a great weekend!

Toodles!

Interested in your own senior session and you know Bailey personally?  Ask her about the special discount that she has to offer as a {Twelve}12 Senior Spokesmodel.

I’m still looking for Spokesmodels for both Class of 2012 and Class of 2013.  Please contact me very soon if you are interested or click HERE to apply now.

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

Class of 2012 is about half way through their final year.  Grayson High School’s Amy Thurber has had a pretty exciting year so far – cheering for the Grayson Rams, homecoming court.  In a few short months, what seemed like it took forever, will finally be here – graduation day.  

So we already know Amy’s plans after high school, but for most seniors, these last few months are a time for reflection and excitement about what the future holds.

Amy – “What I will miss most about High School is cheering for football games, and being so close to all of my friends.
What I’m looking forward to most is getting my own apartment, making new friends and possibly joining a sorority.”

I don’t know about you all, but so many important moments in my life are highlighted by a song.  If I think back about high school graduation, my wedding, anything – usually, if I hear that song, it takes me back.

The soundtrack of your life.

I won’t age myself by telling you the songs that bring me back to high school, but I did ask Amy which song she can relate to most right now.   I’m a bit of a sap.  I never heard this song before and it almost made me tear up a bit.  What a perfect song!  (if you haven’t heard it either, you totally need to look it up and listen)

“My Wish”

Rascal Flatts

I hope that the days come easy and the moments pass slow,

And each road leads you where you want to go,

And if you’re faced with a choice, and you have to choose,

I hope you choose the one that means the most to you.

And if one door opens to another door closed, 

I hope you keep on walkin’ till you find the window,

If it’s cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile,

But more than anything, more than anything,

My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,

Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,

You never need to carry more than you can hold,

And while you’re out there getting where you’re getting to,

I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,

Yeah, this, is my wish.

When we last left off with Grayson Ram Cheerleader Amy Thurber, she was celebrating with the rest of Grayson High School over their State Championship Win!  So what next?  What happens when the lights go out and the stadium empties?  For this Class of 2012 girl – graduation, of course, then off to college.

When I asked Amy, “what’s next for you after graduation?”  She started to answer, and then her mom said, “tell her what you really want to be!”  With a mischievous smile, Amy responded, “a trophy wife!”  With that, all three of us were laughing!  Hey, can’t say that I blame her!

All trophy wife dreams and silliness aside, Amy hopes to attend Georgia Southern after graduation to become a dental hygienist.  Amy, the only words of wisdom I can give…be kind to your future patients, those pointy instruments hurt!  ;) 

We’re still not done…Amy will be back on the blog, so be sure to come back soon.

If you missed Part 1, you can check it out by clicking here.

Interested in your own senior session and you know Amy personally?  Ask her about the special discount that she has to offer as a {Twelve}12 Senior Spokesmodel.

Don’t forget, I’m still looking for Spokesmodels for both Class of 2012 and Class of 2013.

Until next time…toodles!

It’s a big weekend for Grayson High School.  Saturday, December 10, the Grayson Rams played the Walton Raiders in the Georgia Dome.  Whether you have only heard of Grayson because of the student video “Brookwood, Where you at?” or their follow up “This is our Year,”  the Grayson Rams had a remarkable season leading up to the championship (14-0). In the end, the Rams won the State Championship 24-0!   I know it will be a bittersweet end for Grayson Cheerleader and {Twelve}12 Senior Spokesmodel Amy Thurber.  After twelve years cheering, this was her final game as a Grayson Rams cheerleader, but what a way to go out on top!

When you meet Amy, you can’t help but have fun around her.  I met Amy and her mom Sandi a few weeks ago just as it was starting to get cold out.  I was worried it might be a little too cold, but by the time we met, the weather was perfect!   One thing I love about all the seniors I have photographed, they all have a willingness to do whatever, wherever to help make the perfect images.  Amy was no exception and having the back of the car like a closet packed with all sorts of outfits and jewelry, made me soooo happy!  Seniors, Fashion and Bling – gotta love that!

The first location we shot at is a park that I happened upon while location scouting the weekend before.  The woodsy feel and all the tress made it the perfect backdrop for some photographs with a romantic feel.   Throw in some bare feet and a bouquet of flowers…and voila!

Absolutely stunning!

That’s all from this location, but come back again soon!  We are not even close to being done with Amy’s session yet.

If you are interested in your own senior session and you know Amy personally, be sure to ask her about the special deal she has to offer as a {Twelve}12 Senior Spokesmodel.

Don’t forget, I’m still looking for Spokesmodels for both Class of 2012 and Class of 2013.

Hope you are having a great weekend…Toodles!  ;)