Senior Mentoring Session! {Senior Photography, Louisville KY}

Tricia and I have been friends since high school. In the archives there is even a faded photograph of us rockin our velvet prom dresses. And through the wonderful world of Facebook we reunited several years ago. Tricia is an amazing photographer. So when I was beginning this photography journey, I would longingly gaze at her work and secretly wish she would teach me all she knows. So I asked her!

I asked her to be my mentor, to guide me, answer my questions, critique my work - help me become a better photographer. And she actually said YES! ;) She tells me the only reason she did is because she saw potential and that made my heart race. Someone who I think is so completely talented sees potential in me. So our journey began.

It started with simple technical questions and morphed into these "aha!" moments where I learned these photography secrets that send you over the edge of good to great. She has become again one of my greatest friends and I am forever indebted to her for the instruction and encouragement she's given me over the last two years.

I have had the honor of being assistant to her on several of her shoots in Evansville, IN. And by the way, if you are reading this and you live in Evansville and will soon be graduating high school in 2014 - you HAVE to check out www.haydenburnsphotography.com She is the absolute BEST.

So imagine my excitement when I asked if she'd come to Louisville for the day and teach me and she said, HECK YEAH! I found us a model, we coordinated outfits, we scouted our locations... we ate our Tumbleweed salads then we were off on our photography mission.

She taught me lighting tricks, camera tricks and again I have several of those "AHA!" moments where my response to her everytime would be, "SHUT THE FRONT DOOR." We laughed, we got chased out of a private party's room, we froze to death by the river downtown, but MAN did we have some fun.

So with senior season upon us, I got to go to "school" and be taught a premier senior photographer - and THE RESULTS ARE OBVIOUS.

So you 2014 Louisville Seniors... I AM READY! Let's do this!!!