I was beyond excited when I first received the email that one of Devan’s images was selected to be the back cover of Issue 4 of Senior Style Guide!!   I have been such a fan of their blog and magazine, so this was a very special day for me!  In addition to receiving the honor of being chosen for the back cover, a few months earlier, one of Devan’s images received honorable mention for Senior Stunner of the Week!

To have an image inside the issue and the back cover was more than just a little exciting – I was elated!  Such a wonderful day!

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It’s time for the Chic Critique Forum‘s Chic Magazine Cover Contest!  This time, I’m submitting one of Devan’s images for the upcoming Issue 5!

Trying to pick One of Devan’s images was close to impossible…. but here it is!

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Today is the day!

I get to share with everyone that one of Savannah’s images from the “Dreams of Fame” Styled Shoot has been published in CHIC Magazine’s “Dream” Issue!

Every time an image that I shot gets recognized, I am more than excited.  It may sound silly, but it really is an honor!  And this being the first time I have had an image in a physical, hold in your hands magazine truly is one of the best feelings and I’m so grateful!    Thank you to CHIC magazine and to everyone that participated in this shoot and helped contribute to this image (Laura, Casey, Savannah, Angela, Linda)!

For more from the original styled shoot, click to see PART 1,  PART 2, PART 3.

CHIC magazine has also given me the opportunity to giveaway one FREE digital copy of the “Dream” Issue!  How awesome is that?!    For your chance to win, use the widget below to enter.  Some actions are worth a point.  Some are even worth more points and that totally gives you a better chance to win!!   Tweeting about the giveaway can be done daily and that gives you extra points!!  You have until Sunday to enter, so don‘t miss out! :)

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If, by chance, you are not the lucky winner, don’t worrry!!  You can still purchase either the print or digital version!

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I just wanted to Thank all of my wonderful clients, friends, family and everyone else who made 2012 such a wonderful year.

I used to try to do a year end top 10, but I gave up that because I could never narrow it down.  I still can’t, so here are just a FEW favorites from this year:

I hope that 2013 brings each of you many more magical memories!  :)

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Merry Christmas Eve everyone!!

I got to spend last weekend being a little Christmas elf, spreading good cheer!

I wanted to give each of my Class of 2013 clients a little something for the holidays as a Thank You and since I LOVE storyboards, I made one for each of them!

While the weather was not so cheerful that day, I hope that I brought a little joy to each of my seniors and their families.  :)

and lastly…I want to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas!   

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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.

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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

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

It’s that time again, Chic Critique Forum‘s Chic Magazine Cover Contest!

I really had a difficult time selecting which image to submit this time.  I decided on an image of the lovely Savannah again.  This time though from the “Dreams of Fame” styled shoot.

Here is my submission for Chic Magazine:

From the first pose, Grayson High School’s Kelsey Burrell was amazing!

It’s usually the norm that most people have to “warm up” a little in front of the camera…not Kelsey though!  She couldn’t have been more stunning and every look she gave me was like she had been doing this for years!

It might help that Kelsey has been performing for years, fifteen in fact, as a dancer.

While she has plans after high school to major in dance and minor in business, I think she would give any girl on “America’s Next Top Model” a run for their money!  Check out this girl’s “smizing!”

Come back next week for more of Kelsey’s unbelievable senior portraits…because there are just TOO many that I have to share with you!  :)

Makeup:  Laura Briscoe

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See you next time!

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!

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If you haven’t heard of Chic Critique Forum, you really should check them out.  You can choose to join their forum, or just follow their blog.  Regardless of what you choose to do, they are a fabulous resource for learning and inspiration.

So why do I tell you all of this??  Because I am submitting one of my images for their Fall Cover Contest!  I’m sooo excited!

Here is my submission for Chic Magazine:

Click here to view some of the other fabulous entries.  Wish me luck!!  :)

To see more from this shoot:  Part 1 & Part 2

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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.

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When I first started planning this shoot, I envisioned lots of drama and shadows.  I think it became more apparent to me after I started adding things to Pinterest.  If you look at the images I pinned, almost every one them had fabulous lighting and shadows.

I think it’s so interesting how different this shoot turned out compared to my normal portraits without even trying really.  I think we all kind of got wrapped up in the location, which really made this shoot.  I absolutely love the mood of these images.

Casey making Jennifer’s hair “big.”

Even Laura doing Jennifer’s lips in the dark looks cool!  :)

Funny story about the location.  The first time I was here was the day after I had watched one of the “Saw” movies.   One of the buildings immediately reminded me of what could have been in one of those movies.  I told Laura this story when we went to see the location together.  She thought this particular building looked much more “Saw” like.

We started referring to them as “Saw 1″ and “Saw 2.”

“Saw 1″ was the in first post.   This is “Saw 2.”

Again, I cannot thank Laura, Casey, Savannah & Jennifer enough for all the work you each put into this shoot!  You all always manage to make my visions come to life and I love it!

I’m sure it won’t surprise you to know that Laura and I (with help from others I will introduce later) have already started planning another styled shoot.  This one will be in the fall.  Any ideas on the theme??  ;)  Leave a comment if you have any guesses!

Makeup:  Laura Briscoe

Hair:  Casey Arnold

Models:  Savannah Roach & Jennifer Hite

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See you next time!

You may recall that I mentioned in the post of the last styled shoot, that we were already planning another shoot.  The day that I was editing those pictures, I remembered that one of our models, Savannah, was a dancer and how bummed I was that we had run out of time and didn’t capture any images of her dancing.  Then it occurred to me to do an entire shoot around her dancing!  I ran my idea by Makeup Artist Laura Briscoe and she was immediately on board.  Casey Arnold also agreed to do hair again.  Savannah had another dancer friend and voila – we had another styled shoot in the making!

Let me start out by telling you that I like to compare this shoot to “the little engine that could.”  I was so sick the day of the shoot that it’s a wonder that we accomplished what we did.  That being said, I couldn’t be more happy with how this shoot turned out.  As usual, the team that put this together is amazing to say the least and I’m so happy to have had another chance to collaborate with all of them again.  We had a new addition to our little team, dancer/model, Jennifer Hite.  I think it’s safe to say that we didn’t scare her off – I can’t say them same for the location, but that’s a story for another day.  ;)

These shots of Savannah aren’t so much about dance, because the dress limited her leg movement.

She looks so amazing though, that I don’t even mind.  :)

I absolutely love this next shot!  This was actually a test shot.

Seriously, who looks this good during a test shot!

She reminds me of the daytime alter ego of a comic book character!

Don’t ask me why, I have no idea, but that’s what I think of when I see this!  :)

and this is Jennifer – our urban ballerina.  She truly amazes me!

Not only can she pull off the most graceful dance poses, but she

looks so beautiful with every move she makes!

Unbelievable – just stunning!!

I gotta give tons of credit for the makeup and hair that Laura and Casey did.   The looks these two come up with are breathtaking!!

Obviously we couldn’t have done this without Savannah & Jennifer!   You ladies pulled off the most beautiful moves and really made this shoot come to life!

Even though I was feeling a bit under the weather, the four of you made the shoot so much fun and had me constantly laughing!

While I no longer have my “Janice from friends” laugh, because I have my voice back, I’ll never forget this shoot!  :)

This isn’t all – so be sure to come back for Part 2!!

Makeup:  Laura Briscoe

Hair:  Casey Arnold

Models:  Savannah Roach & Jennifer Hite

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See you next time!

It’s time for Nominations for Class of 2013 Senior Spokesmodels!

Email your nominations to triciatoker@gmail.com.  Be sure to include their name, school, cell and email address.

If you are a Class of 2013 Senior, then don’t worry about the nominating and go straight to filling out the application HERE.

You can nominate as many seniors as you would like, but don’t wait, or all the spots may be full!

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