Estee is indeed the bestee – haha I could NOT resist that title for this blog post!!! We’ve known her and her fam for years and she’s a legacy Frameable senior since we photographed her big bro Ben a couple years ago! Her mom Leigh joined us, and even Ben and dad Jeff joined for a couple family pics – I think I might do a separate post of the family pics that have come from a few of our senior sessions where the fam jumped in! But in the meantime let’s focus on Estee and her memorable session in Detroit!
Estee Is Just The Bestee
First stop was Eastern Market and Estee was prepared – she did her homework and had a couple of her favorite murals picked out… Here’s a photo of her on one of them:
Totes Adorbs, and if no one says that anymore then #sorrynotsorry because she IS.
We also have some fun behind the scenes from this pic from Facebook:
Here’s another one from Eastern Market Ally just went with spur of the moment by having Estee pose in the street – very cool:
LOVE!
Two more stops around town at this point – first at the DIA:
Another winner, and at this point we headed over to Belle Isle to catch an awesome sunset…. and we have some more behind the scenes first from the bridge on Instagram:
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Adorable Anna just sums it up – she just is. We had an amazingly fantastic session with her and her parents Jen and Tom in Detroit, and we kinda knew we would because her big sis Meg’s senior session was a memorable one as well. We love this fam! Anna is a class of 2021 senior at Detroit Country Day and we’ve been looking forward to getting these up on the blog, so let’s get to it!
Adorable Anna
We started out at the riverfront and got off to a perfect start…
Gorgeous by the river!
We also have some fun behind the scenes action first from Facebook:
From there we headed over to the Eastern Market area where we got this cool pic on some steps!
Okay how adorable is she?
Here’s a little more behind the scenes fun from Eastern Market before we headed over to Belle Isle, this time from Instagram:
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Yes we made magic with Micole in Detroit – senior picture magic! Micole is a rising senior in the class of 2021 at Bloomfield Hills High School, and we LOVE our Blackhawks since our own kids were Blackhawks! Part of what made this session special was that Micole’s whole fam joined us – parents Sarah and Todd and little brother Ari – and it was pretty cool to have everyone there to join in and celebrate this girl. She’s smart and adorable and we really enjoyed spending the day with her! So let’s get to some highlights!
Magic With Micole!
We actually started with a few pics in the studio so let’s highlight one of those first:
Love the ripped denim and the tie dye! We also have some fun behind the scenes from the day first from Instagram Live:
At this point it was time to head downtown and we had a great day for it! We hit Belle Isle first…
Gotta love when the fountain is on!
Here’s a closeup on one of our favorite bridges there:
Okay she is stunning…
After hanging on the island for a while we finished up over by Eastern Market, and we have a little more behind the scenes fun this time from Facebook:
….and the result!
Magic with Micole indeed! And there you have it! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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We still have some seniors to photograph but we’ll call this one with Seth the last one of the fall season in Detroit and it’s a STELLAR one to end on! Granted it was a cold windy day, but it was dry and we were able to get fantastic results. Seth is very go with the flow and he was a trooper with the weather! He’s got a good head on his shoulders and we had a great day with him and his mom Bridget!
Stellar Seth
We started in the studio with a few quick formal photos on the grey – here’s one:
GQ!!!!
Then it was time to head downtown and we started on Belle Isle – here’s one with the skyline in the distance!
Next we found a bridge that we’ve never used before – it’s SO cool and it will henceforth be known as Seth’s bridge because that’s how we roll! Here’s the behind the scenes on that from Instagram:
And one of the results…
Love that shot!!!
We also headed over to Eastern Market to grab some pics with the murals and here’s the behind the scenes from that on Facebook LIVE:
And we’ll leave you with this one:
Stud!
And there you have it! A stellar session with Seth in the D and we hope you enjoyed the highlights! A great one to end on…….for now!
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In yesterday’s post Twinning and Winning – Part 1 – And We Ain’t Lyin’ About Ryann! we went all Ladies First with Ryann’s highlights with a twin pic of Ryann and Shane together mixed in. Today we reverse it and get on the Shane Train!!! Shane is a good dude and he was a trooper on these two days in Detroit taking all these pics with his sis! We had a great time with these two and here are more of the highlights!
On The Shane Train
We’ll start with one of our favorite mosaic murals in Eastern Market:
Looking good!!!
Here’s one from Belle Isle with a pretty cool composition – an angle we hadn’t used before:
We posted a photo from the cool ivy wall we found in Detroit yesterday of Ryann, and here’s some behind the scenes of that spot from Facebook Live:
And a result with Shane:
Pretty cool huh?
We grabbed this black and white on the Wayne State campus – big fans of how this one turned out:
Our last spot was by a very cool sculpture – also a somewhat random find… and here’s the behind the scenes from Instagram:
And we’ll leave you with one of those of the twins together!
Love them!
You can see why we weren’t lyin’ about Ryann yesterday and why we are on the Shane Train today!!! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with these two!!!
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What an epic senior session(s) odyssey we embarked on with twins Ryann and Shane!!! In this post we’ll go ladies first – we love this girl and we ain’t lyin….about Ryann!!! What a sweetheart and the two of them are pretty hilarious together we have to say. Definitely a twin bond that you can feel. We’re going to focus on some individual photos of Ryann here and some individuals of Shane tomorrow but with one together in each post. These two are legacies too since we photographed older brother Ian from the class of 2019!
Twinning & Winning & ain’t lyin’ about Ryann…
We went to Detroit with these two – twice! The plan with their parents Faith and John was to make sure we had plenty of opportunities to get as many pics as we needed in as many spots as necessary with some of them individually and some together. We all felt that we didn’t want to be rushed, and this allowed us to break it up without going on a marathon day long shoot. So you’ll see some photos mixed in here from both days!
Here’s a little behind the scenes to give you a taste of the first day in Eastern Market before we get to a few higlights from Facebook Live:
Now some highlights of Ryann’s pics!
Just stunning!!! We had a decent amount of wind at that point but it works to nice effect on Ryann’s hair above! Lots of color in and around Eastern Market as well and Ryann Rocked it. Here’s another one…
Love the black on the black wall…
Here’s one from day two on a random ivy covered wall I just spotted as we were driving by…
Love it. That wall won’t be so random for us anymore!
And one more in this outfit on the Wayne State Campus which is really nice…
Now let’s bring Shane into the picture (pun intended) for this fun twin pic:
Awesome!!! Twinning and winning indeed and you can see we weren’t lyin’ about Ryann! We had so much fun with these two and we hope you enjoyed part 1 of the highlights! Part two is the next post!
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Izabela – aka Izzy to her friends – is in the hizzy, and on our blog!!! What an adorable young lady, but we’re not surprised since we kinda watched her grow up and her parents are great people. But this summer has been the first time we’ve really had the chance to hang out with her and we’ve loved every minute of it! Her mom Nadica joined us for a wonderful day in Detroit – we laughed a lot and got some incredible photos, so let’s get to the highlights!
Izzy In The Hizzy
It was an afternoon session so we started first in the Eastern Market area, figuring our lighting for the Belle Isle photos would be better as the sun got a little lower in the sky for what we wanted. We went to one of our favorite walls first:
Okay how cute is she??? We also have some fun behind the scenes for you first from Facebook Live:
Next we hit up a spot that we’ve never used before – these painted cement barrel type things…. lol! We LOVE this one:
So cool!!!
In staying with the color texture theme we have this next one, where there is something about the wind blown look that we think is really appealing. Just a moment captured where Izzy looks so beautiful.
At this point we headed to Belle Isle and listen, these were really hard to choose to share for this post… We actually went to the graffiti bridge for some fun and we livestreamed there, but we’ve posted photos on the blog from there before and the last photo we’ll share is undeniable with the purple dress and purple flowers… First the Instagram LIVE at the bridge:
…and then the purple to leave you with:
WOW.
Okay so there it is – you can see why we were thrilled that Izzy was in the hizzy, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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We love Emma. She is just a burst of personality and total adorable-ness, and on top of that she’s clearly my spirit animal – we totally bonded over American history and that’s pretty much what we talked about while her mom Tara and Ally sat and watched during her consultation. We decided we’re going to go for coffee and talk about history one day lol! To that end, Emma had a plan for her love of books to be a part of her senior session and she had scoped out the venerable John K King Bookstore in Detroit as an essential locale in our plan – she even contacted the store where they were more than accommodating in letting us photograph there! This turned out to be the beginning of an EPIC day that ended up at our fave Chili Mustard Onions for dinner! So let’s get to what happened at the bookstore and more highlights in between as Emma Elevates the senior picture game!
Emma Elevates
John K King is a massive bookstore of used books that you MUST visit if you haven’t before. Here’s the behind the scenes Facebook LIVE broadcast where you can tell how giddy we were about photographing there!
And one of the results…
How beautiful! Emma looks amazing and it’s just such a cool photo that really captures a big part of who she is.
From there we headed over to Belle Isle where Emma and Tara had another great prop in store….
How fun is the bicycle and the flowers in the basket? The sky opened up right after this photo with a blast of rain as we scurried back to the car to wait it out. We just lucked out on that… it didn’t last long and it left behind a gorgeous rainbow in the sky.
We headed over to the edge of the island to get a skyline photo of Detroit and this one with the off-camera flash is awesome – it’s just more of Emma elevating…
Last but not least we headed over to Eastern Market for the murals and there’s a funny fruit mural Emma likes a lot so we used that one. Here’s the behind the scenes from Instagram LIVE (including a “Tara takeover” where Tara took over the broadcast)!
And here is the fun result!
Adorable!!!
And there you have it! Emma Elevates indeed – she slayed on this day! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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Sydney slayed in the city! What a fabulous senior session in Detroit and the whole fam joined us down there – we had a lot of fun! Her parents and her little sis – David, Risa and Gabrielle are a riot! Sydney is a beautiful North Farmington Raider senior – inside and out from the class of 2020 and we are thrilled to present a few sneak peeks from our day with her!
Sydney In The City!
We started on Belle Isle in the morning and we had great weather conditions – let’s start at the fountain:
Such a cool pic and Sydney looks gorgeous!
We also played around with the skyline shot down by the Detroit River and here’s a little behind the scenes fun with the fam from Facebook Live:
And here are a couple other spots we love like the red bridge:
And the covered bridge…
We headed over to Eastern Market and then for a bite at Green Dot Stables before we headed back to the studio! Here’s a little more behind the scenes fun we had over by Eastern Market this time from Instagram Live:
At this point it was back to the studio for a few more and we went with the black and blowy…..and – wow!
So there you have it! Sydney in the city was a winning session indeed and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!!!
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Ava is a character and we are huge fans. We had so much fun with her, and her photos? OMG. She’s a pro – tons of style and sass and the day we spent with her and her mom Stacie whom we went to high school with was one we won’t soon forget! A great time in Detroit and we can’t wait to do it again on her senior session. We are pleased to have her representing our studio at Bloomfield Hills High School for the class of 2020! Let’s get to the photos…
All About Ava
Our plan was to go to Belle Isle first and this was where the adventure started… the ramp to get onto I-75 south from I-94 was closed so we ended up heading in the opposite direction which put us right by an industrial center where we have taken some images before so we figured while we were there we would get a few….
And wow. Right off the bat Ava was in the zone – what a gorgeous image.
After a little time there we headed back down to our original destination and…..they were setting up for the Grand Prix. Ugh! No worries – we still got our skyline image that has become popular for Detroit sessions and we have a little fun behind the scenes from our livestream on Facebook:
And here is the result:
Detroit and Ava vs. Everybody!
Next we headed over to Eastern Market to get a few photos on a particular wall that we love (after a lunch break at Chili Mustard Onions – YUM).
As you can imagine we had a really tough time narrowing down photos from this session… Ava looked fantastic!
We also have more behind the scenes this time from the livestream we did on Instagram!
Last but not least after bouncing around the D a little more we made it back to the studio for a few photos on the black backdrop (most of our seniors do a combination of studio and location for their sessions) and we’ll leave you with this stunner…
Great one to end on! We were all about Ava that day indeed and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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Another winner, and at this point we headed over to Belle Isle to catch an awesome sunset…. and we have some more behind the scenes first from the bridge on Instagram:
