Chanté Thorpe ~ High School Senior Photography 2015 ~ Old Town Manassas, VA

Hello everyone!!

Oh, the hustle and bustle of life. Things have been busy with counting down the weeks/days until the end of the school year (4 & 18), fundraising for Mission Year / getting more and more excited for Houston, picking up the photography season with sessions and weddings, etc... But aren't we all busy? There are ten seniors from the church youth group my husband runs who are graduating just next weekend. They are among thousands of students just here in Warrenton graduating. They'll all be experiencing a crazy, surreal time of transition between high school and what lies ahead for them. As we all journey through our own busyness, I encourage all of you to do something I don't do enough of myself: stop and smell the roses. Just pause your busy schedule, maybe even for just 10 minutes, silencing the area around you, maybe going outside. Enjoy springtime while it lasts; the heat of summer will be here before we know it (it's even peeked its head in a couple times already). I think a little break in the noise of life - a few moments of silence each day - can help us put perspective on everything going on. Let me know how that goes for you, and please remind me to take those little silence breaks, too. :)

One sweet girl about to go through a major life change is Chanté! Chanté will be graduating high school this year, and she is headed to Johnson & Wales University in the fall!! I think her friends and family will agree that she has a very bright future ahead of her. :) 

We enjoyed a pretty evening in Old Town Manassas together. Enjoy this peek into Chanté's charming smile and style! 

The photo below is one of my favorites from the whole session!

She's in!!

I love the roses... What a great prop idea!

Such pure, simple beauty.

The cap & gown make it all so much more real!

And a few with momma  :) :)
Pam used to work at my school, and it was so nice spending this time with her and Chanté!

Congratulations Chanté!! I had so much fun getting to know you and spending the evening together! :)

Please join me in wishing Chanté lots of congratulations on this big achievement. Give her some love for these photos too - She did an incredible job in front of my camera!

Also check out Nathan's senior photos and cap & gown photos if you missed them!

Talk to y'all soon, and be sure to email me at kellyhudginsphoto@gmail.com if I can serve you through photography anytime between now and July!

Love,

Kelly

Nathan Krauss ~ High School Senior 2015 ~ Warrenton, VA

Hi everyone!

Whew, my spring photography season began all at once! I was thankful to not have too much going on photography-wise for the first few months of the year, since we were putting a lot of effort into fundraising for Mission Year. We're still fundraising of course, but it has felt really good getting back into photography sessions and weddings. There's just something I love about connecting with people and serving them through photography.

My husband leads our church youth group, and we have ten graduating seniors this year! One of them is Nathan, who you may remember from a family and senior photo session last fall, as well as his Eagle Scout Court of Honor before that. Nathan has been a dedicated member of our youth group, and he's headed to Emory and Henry College in the fall. It's definitely an exciting time for him!

We had a little mini-session together to capture some cap and gown photos to use in announcements. I experimented with doing portraits inside, and I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out! I don't currently use artificial lighting, so our natural light came from the window with a white sheet in the background. Editing also helped achieve the desired effect. The rainy weather did hold off enough for us to take some photos outside, too, to provide some variety in portraits (and to get a couple more photos in my element too ;) ).

Take a peek into our little indoor portrait experiment, and let us know what you think! Give Nathan lots of congratulations, too!

Congratulations to Nathan and to all graduating seniors from both high school and college!

We've got another senior coming up next on the blog - you can look forward to seeing beautiful Chanté soon! Be sure to "like" Kelly Hudgins Photography on Facebook to see her sneak peek and find out when her post is up! Talk to y'all soon!

Love,

Kelly