Joanna and I had the opportunity of photographing the National Community Church staff and their proteges this afternoon.
This is the busiest church staff, I think, in the country so it was an act of God that we got all 27 people in one place. It should be mentioned that it’s been about 5 years since this has happened.
I’ve been sitting on these photos for a while just waiting to show you on the new site.
These are students from The Maya Angelou Charter School in Southeast Washington DC. My friend (and former neighbor), Karen, introduced me to these kids because she teaches them every day. She loves these kids with a passion and it shows every time she talks about them and to them. She desires so much to see these kids achieve their goals and dreams.
These kids are so cool! We had so much fun going to locations that they chose around DC. During one shoot we got kicked out of the National Mall by the park police. Who knew you needed to get a permit?
The sessions crossed over a couple weeks and we went everywhere from the Lincoln Memorial to Georgetown to U Street to The Arboretum.
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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!
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