Ashley S., Class of 2011 || Casa Roble Orangevale Senior Photographer

Words cannot express how much I loved shooting with this girl. This was my last shoot while I was living in Monterey. I did her Senior Ball Pictures last month, and her mom liked them so much that she called me for a semi-impromptu senior portrait session, and they came all the way from Orangevale out to Monterey for a freakin' amazing shoot! 


Ashley and her mom were just so much fun. They are the kind of people that I feel like I could totally hang out with any time and have fun with. We went all over the place on this portrait session. We started in downtown Carmel, where we found some fabulous shopping and gorgeous flowers. We sat down at a cute little cafe and had sandwiches and pastries for lunch. We watched some old guys play chess and talked about Ashley's senior project (hot yoga! Yowza!). Some European women pointed and laughed at me as I rolled around on the ground to get different angles with my camera. If they thought I looked funny now, they should have seen me doing the same thing when I was six months pregnant!

Then we headed down to Garapatta State Park for these beautiful, rural shots that we got of her in her prom dress. She was such a good sport when I was making her walk through all the pokey thistles in sandals to get to just the right patch of tall grass and weeds. 

And here comes my favorite part of the whole dang shoot. That's right, folks. She wore her prom dress IN THE OCEAN! Now THAT is how you get your money's worth out of your $300 prom dress.

Ooooooooh, I shall miss Monterey!