At LEAST once a month since last spring's golf season, I've heard from them.
At the school... at the game... at a grad party... at cheerleading pictures... and nearly once every couple of weeks on facebook chat.. the refrain was the same.
"We gotta get senior pictures set up!"
Day after day... week after week... and month after month... the "busy season" that typically runs from June 1 until the end of October came and went.
Still. No. Amy. Atcher.
Finally the calender turned from October to November... and there she was... will all over her spunk and sass. Make no mistake... Amy can not be stopped... one can only hope to CONTAIN her! ;)
About a week before the session, it was brought to my attention that Amy had an idea...
I braced myself.
"Could you get an image of by the wind turbines over here by Laurel right at the break of dawn?"
If anyone knows me well... they know I love a challenge... and they ALSO know that a 7:30 a.m. sunrise is NOT an issue for THIS guy when I regularly report to work at about 4 a.m.-ish.
So it was ON.
I met Amy and her equally energetic mom, Lynda at their home and we jumped in the H3 and zipped out west of Laurel in search of just the right spot for this image that Amy had to have.
There I was... laying on my stomach... in the mud... in a picked cornfield at 7:30 a.m... in 20 degree temps that nearly cause me to get frost bite on my trigger hand. But you know what? I LOVE it when kids take possession of their session in some form or fashion... have some inspiration of their own and then ask me to make it happen for them. And that's exactly what we did here. Sure, there's some photoshop wizardry going on in that image... but even if you strip it all away... it's still a stunning image of the new skyline of rural Laurel.
Speaking of rural Laurel... we weren't done there. Amy had also done some leg-work in securing a new place for me to shoot for the majority of her outdoor session. Her father, Larry, hunts a private location south and east of Laurel on the property of Art and Sharon Carson. A get-away home for the Carson's that's laid out and stocked as a hunter's paradise, made a perfect playground for our November session. Sure, much of the fall leaves had gone by the wayside... but the rolling natural hills worked out just fine for Amy, Lynda and I to get unique images. Led by our trusty "tour guide," Rex the wonder dog... we put the H3 into 4-wheel... and we covered nearly acre of the expansive hunting grounds.
Eight year old Rex charged out ahead of the Hummer as we hopped from spot to spot... even taking a few minutes off from his sniffing and pointing to take an image... along with 7 week old pup, Waldo! How CUTE is that puppy!!!! Awwwwh! I will say that as happy as Rex was to be roaming the country side... Young Waldo was frustrated by not being allowed to earn his stripes on this day. :)
We thanked Art and Sharon for their generosity and made our way back to Montour to make sure Amy had her chance to rock the studio as well. This girl wasn't afraid to stomp around in the wild in her 4 inch heels... but they looked much more at home in the camera room... I know THAT much.
In the end... I feel like I made the Atchers wait to get their proofs nearly as long as they made ME wait to get the session in the first place.
The moral of the story is that all's well that ends well. Enjoy Team Atcher... we finally got 'er done! :)
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