We were pretty stoked to photograph Phil’s senior portraits out at North Pole High a couple weeks ago. When we started out with senior portraits 3 years ago, we shot his older brother Joe in downtown Fairbanks, and Heath made it his personal mission to up the bar on his signature soccer image. This is what came of it…. BTW Kim, we’re already working on ideas for you

This next image has got to be in our top 10… Heath borrowed one of my cameras to use with his favorite funky-manual-tilt-shifto-matic lens, and I like to think that some of my mojo transferred over to him Although it didn’t hurt to have such a good subject (don’t tell Heath that)

When Phil mentioned that he’d like to photograph in the weight room, we were up for the challenge, but didn’t know that it’d be approximately 150 thousand degrees inside with the air systems shut down for the summer. Then Heath realized it was going to take a LONG time to light it like he wanted…. But, as seems to be typical, he put away about FOUR of his lights, and worked the natural light with one strobe and came up with something totally different.

We always love senior season, and Phil definitely kicked things off in a big way. We’ve got some pretty amazing senior shoots lined up, and it’s looking like it’s going to be another fantastic summer o’ seniors. We’ll hopefully be posting a bunch of new stuff here soon.

We also have more senior portrait sessions available for Alaskan seniors throughout summer, but they seem to be getting booked up….. so if you want to be a part of it, call kind of quick

-audrey