Awesome downtown L.A. senior session of Kearsten from Canyon. Not only is this girl beautiful but she’s also an amazing swimmer! While working with her and hearing about her training schedule alone I was blown away at her dedication to her sport. Her mom, Gina, joined us on our adventure and is just the nicest lady. So sweet! We traveled around to some of my favorite locations and found a few new ones that I’ll for sure be going back to! Kearsten showed up for the shoot with tons of great clothes and accessories (no wonder she was voted “best dressed”) and was a natural in front of the camera. She prefers pictures of herself not smiling but I think she is stunning when she does smile too! Hope you love the photos K and thank you for a great shoot!!

Tara Rochelle photography is hosting a H.S. Senior Modeling Contest starting…..NOW!! Submit a photo of the SENIOR you’d like to nominate (or if you’re a SENIOR you can nominate yourself) along with the name of their school and they could win a free senior portrait session!! We will be giving away a ton of other fun awesome stuff too! Entries will be accepted through July 25 @ 11:59pm PDT. The voting will take a place a few days later and then you’ll need to vote for the SENIOR you’d like to see win!! Submit entries to tara@tararochelle.com

Just finished up another slideshow from an awesome senior shoot. I love these shoots! Definitely much more fun, creative, and unique than just sitting on a stool in your cap ‘n gown. Thanks Amanda for such a great afternoon! I loved your personality and the fact that you would do just about anything to get an awesome shoot!! You rock!!

(remember to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the blog and turn off the blog music- otherwise you’ll have two soundtracks playing at once!!)

So much for trying to be a daily blogger but that’s me- overachiever! If I can blog once or twice a week I will be a happy girl. I am going to try and post more often so that I can get caught up since I am way, way behind!! Here are some from another senior session. I get the feeling Samantha loved having her photo taken and was more than a little bummed when we were done!! Love shooting these!!

Just wrapped up another senior shoot! Can I just tell you how much I love the flying pigeon shot? I attempted to get that shot with Brittney but the talent (pigeons) were not nearly as cooperative as these ones. (Disclaimer: no pigeons or people were harmed in the making of that photograph)…