Senior year is finally here and there you are, ready to finish your grade school journey and take a walk across the graduation stage into the next big chapter of your young adult life. Almost every high school in America will have their graduating seniors sit in the same black robe and smile for an automatic camera to collect everyone's photo for the yearbook. There is nothing wrong with traditional yearbook photos, in fact there is something beautiful in the tradition it holds. But, how much of your senior year story and personal identity does this picture share? It may be difficult to place yourself in the mindset of 10, 20, 40 + years down the road, but take a minute to try.
What stories, identities, interests, hobbies and memories would you want to bottle up and save if you could? Senior photography from a seasoned professional photographer is the closest it comes to bottling up this special period of time. When you book your senior photography session, it is important to reflect on who you are and how you will incorporate your identity into your pictures. Is your Jeep more than a car, but a remembrance of all the summer nights spent with your friends driving to get ice cream? What about the clothes you wear. Do designers like Brandy Melville capture your current style and clothing pieces that represent you?
Often times places hold a special place in our hearts. How many times have you visited Long Dock Park in Beacon, NY to watch the sunset or traveled to the beach in Long Island or the Jersey shore with your family each summer. Have the city streets of Manhattan inspired your future goals? The location of your senior photography session should be a place you wish to look back on and remember moments as such.
Your senior photos will stretch far beyond your own hands or Instagram profile. From a parent's perspective, your pictures will forever represent the time before your family dynamics were forever changed. How wonderful will it be to have a gorgeous keepsake album of your senior portraits to show your children and grandchildren? Not just a yearbook drape photo or a cap and gown, but images that show who you were, the clothes you loved, the sports you played and your true personality?
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