Sharda Senior Photos - May 20, 2009

My friend and former next door neighbor, Amanda, is a professional friend in Southeast Washington DC.  She is quite remarkable and just a wonderful person to mentor teenage girls.

Sharda is one of her girls and Amanda asked me to take her Senior photos.

I’ve never done Senior photos but I have seen them.  You know, laser backdrops, leaning on the big numbers, laying across the big numbers, hugging a tree awkwardly.  I was excited to do something different and make pictures that are anti-Senior photo-ish.  I wanted to make Sharda look and feel like she was on a magazine cover shoot (I haven’t done one of those yet but would LOVE to!).

Who knew Sharda would bring it and look well beyond her years?  No one in the room expected it and were just blown away!  Must have been some good mentoring!