Dawn Fry Photo Seniors

The City, The Creek and The School | Austin Senior Photographer

Here we are almost about to start the 2011-2012 school year and I haven’t even finished telling you all about my class of 2011 seniors yet! Eeek! I am trying to get all caught up, so keep checking back to see more awesome senior photo sessions! Today, I am featuring a class of 2011 Leander High School student, David.

You may recognize David from his head shot photo session last fall. We went out to a small park just north of Leander for his head shot session, and he was awesome! So, this spring when the planets aligned and everyone had a free day on the schedule, we packed up David, a metric ton of gear and two amazing assistants and headed out for a day long senior photo session.

We started the afternoon in downtown Austin, working every spot we could find along a square block of South Congress. The gorgeous bamboo in the image above was in a great little garden area behind a restaurant. The color of it went well with David’s shirt, and the light was amazing there!  The shot below was taken behind yet another restaurant – the wooden wall gave us a really nice textured background.We hit a bunch of places there, and while shooting in the parking garage, we were startled by a pizza delivering Storm Trooper! And I *WISH* I could share a picture of that with you, but sadly, I don’t have one. We were all laughing so hard, I couldn’t focus the camera on him. 🙁  That’s Austin for you; Keepin’ it WEIRD. lol!

Anyway, after the urban portion of the session we loaded back up and headed out to Bull Creek for some nature photos. It was a beautiful day at the creek, and we had a blast balancing on the rocks with reflectors and gear, just to get the perfect shots. David was so great to work with; he even laughed at the monkey jokes……I can’t really tell you the monkey jokes here. You’ll just have to book a session with me to find out what they are. Or ask David. Just walk up to him, and in a sinister voice say “mon-kaaaay!!!”. When he comes up for air, I am sure he will tell you the joke. If he remembers it…haha!After shooting at Bull Creek, the plan was to head up to the 360 Bridge for sunset photos. But on the way, we discovered that we were very close to David’s old school, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, and he expressed a great interest in trying to do part of his session there if we could. We didn’t have permission and we had no idea if we could even get past the guard at the gate, and, if we couldn’t we would have been out of time to go back to the original plan. But we all agreed that it would be more sentimental and representative of who David is, so we gave it a shot. And I am glad we did!!

Of course, dressed in such a nice suit and with him being so polite and charming, who wouldn’t let him in the gate?Look at that face!!! I swear, he could sell you swamp land in Louisiana… 😉  I told him the above shot looked like it could be the cover of Business Monthly Magazine!The school made the perfect setting for the final portion of David’s senior session.  The location is beautiful, the light was perfect and it was an important part of his life that I was so honored to capture for him.  We stayed well until after sunset so we could do some shots with the flashes, just for fun. As we were walking out, I spotted this great area that had a cool set of lockers. We played with the flash here for a little more artsy, dramatic shot. I thought it turned out pretty neat. 

After we wrapped it up, David took us on a tour of the grounds and pointed out all the different buildings and amenities at the school. It is a really beautiful campus and I could tell he had great memories and a love for the place that he will always carry. I was so glad he spoke up and made the session his own by taking a chance on being able to shoot there. We were able to tell his story in a way that was much more personal.

Here is David’s completed music video of both his head shot session and full senior session. I really love how it all turned out.

Congratulations, David on your graduation and upcoming college plans! I hope you have an amazing time in this next chapter of your life. I am so grateful you trusted me with such a fun and special day.

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