Since my girl was little I have always dreamt of her high school senior portraits! Where would I do them? What would she wear? How would the light be? This summer our family planned and went on the most dreamy vacation of our lives! I had a slight feeling that I may want to do her portraits while over in Europe… so I had lots of memory cards just in case. It was almost like I was afraid to do them… because if I did do them… it would mean, she was a senior… and I just wasn’t ready for that… but so it is.
Tuscany was a dream… for our whole family. We love cities but oh man do we ever love quiet villages and peaceful places. Finding our Tuscan farmhouse was just surreal. Winding through vineyards, stopping for cats to cross, watching the Tuscan light dance around the olive groves. I was in Heaven! I knew this would be where I would do Isabelle’s senior portraits! I didn’t say anything because again, the more I pushed them away the longer she would stay little… silly me. One day while the sun was setting so beautifully on the rolling hills of vines our family was on a little walk through an olive grove and the light was golden and all my family knows how I get with golden light… Isabelle looked at me and said, “We should do my senior pics here!” YES! settled! So the next day it rained… that kind of rain that seems like it could last for a week… but the positive girl I am, I knew it would be ok and the light would come again… later on the rain stopped and my girl asked if it would be ok… Of Course it will be ok… we are doing your senior pics in Tuscany!!!
So she got ready, but she said she didn’t want to go crazy with makeup and doing her hair… she wanted them to be “her” and my gosh they are so her! As we were leaving and there were puddles around the farmhouse I said, what shoes will you wear?… “I’m going to go barefoot…” Well if that didn’t make me cry, then I don’t know what could! Growing up, our kids were always barefoot. Arriving places forgetting shoes. It was so her. So special. We walked around and found light pockets and avoided spiders. We belly laughed as she almost fell on her bum down the muddy hills of olives. She wore her sister’s dress and just kept things natural and wanted these pics to be more than just senior pics, but more so of a memory. I will always remember this special time in Tuscany taking my oldest girl’s senior portraits… It was a dream shoot and I am so happy we did them there… (ps. of course I am planning to do some locally of her as well… I just can’t help it… lol…)
xoxo
Kollene
