today i had my first official high school senior photo shoot. paul monahan is a senior at mammoth high school and has plans to attend SBCC next year. um, yah, that is in santa barbara, so i for sure approve. paul is awesome. he is funny, casual and easy-going. we had a blast. paul’s mom, elisabeth, is one of my mom’s dearest friends and she and paul asked me to do his senior portraits. of course, i couldn’t resist. so today i headed up early to scout out some locations and then drug paul, elisabeth and my mom/assistant across marshy meadows, over fences and through sagebrush to “get the shot”. whist paul and i were in the meadow, we heard a rattle. it sounded just like a rattle snake. we both squeaked, jumped and prepared to dash away to safety. only to realize, it was but a innocent piece of flora, a dried flower with some seeds in it. our mothers were snickering and giggling at us from afar. you have to always be alert and ready for anything whist you are at a shoot. you just never know…

any-how, it was great fun spending the afternoon with them, and i am stoked about the shots we got. thanks paul (and elisabeth) for allowing me to do your senior photos. for a slideshow of the shoot, click here.