08/31/2026
One of Kenneth's favorite types of sessions to photograph is senior portraits.
My role during those sessions is usually a little different. While Kenneth works with the senior, I'm normally hanging out with Mom or Dad. We talk, we laugh, I help keep the nerves down—and, occasionally, I may keep an excited parent from giving Kenneth and their senior seventeen different suggestions at once. 😂
But there's something I've noticed during these sessions that I absolutely love.
I think almost every parent has experienced the moment.
You're driving down the road, glance into the rearview mirror and, just for a second, wonder...
Who is that adult sitting in my backseat?
And then it hits you.
That's my child.
Somehow, somewhere between scraped knees, school lunches, first days of school, practices, homework, arguments, laughter and all the thousands of completely ordinary days in between...
They grew up.
I think that's what senior portraits are really about.
Yes, we're celebrating graduation. We're celebrating everything they've accomplished and everything that's waiting for them on the other side of high school.
But we're also capturing that moment.
That little space between the child you've raised and the adult they're becoming.
And I have to admit, one of my favorite parts of a senior session happens when we start showing Mom or Dad some of the photos.
Sometimes there are tears.
And maybe this sounds a little cruel, but those tears make us smile.
Because they're not tears of sadness.
They're pride.
They're joy.
They're memories.
They're a little bit of Where did the time go?
And they're the realization that this person standing in front of Kenneth's camera—the one who suddenly looks so grown—is the same little person they've been watching become themselves all these years.
Senior pictures aren't just for the senior.
Sometimes they're for the parents, too.
They're a way of saying:
Look at them. Look who they became.
And there is something incredibly beautiful about getting to capture that.
