If there is any end to Bandera High School senior Hope’s talents, I couldn’t find them.

The girl can jump like a cat, kick like a mule, dive like a swan, flip like a frog, swing like Tarzan, cook like Bobby Flay, pose like a supermodel, and light up a room like a 200 watt bulb.

With such a multi-talented subject, I had to stretch my imagination just to come up with new challenges to put her through to make for some awesome, unique senior photos.

She rocked it, from the first shot to the last, and was a blast to work with besides.

Remember Bandera, Medina and Utopia ISD mates, it’s never too late to get some great senior photos done, for graduation invitations or for the wall – both your parents’ and your Facebook’s. E-mail me, Facebook me, tweet me, or call/text me at 830-688-1564 to set up your senior photo shoot!

Below, enjoy some of my favorite highlights from our senior shoot together.

This girl is fearless.

Okay, so she has a thing about heights, and her mom and I did kind of force her to stand on the edge of a cliff for some of her senior photos last week…but only for a moment! And her daddy was nearby to…well…watch her fall off if the wind caught her.

If one thing has been consistent in my experience as a high school senior photographer over the last 11 years here in Bandera County, it’s that every shoot is a wholly new, unique, fun adventure.

Molly is a riot, a young woman unafraid of having fun and going the extra mile in style and smiles to make the best photos possible. We did a split shoot, half studio and half location, and she rocked both to the fullest. Her joyous personality is evident in every image.

As T.I. sings, “You can have whatever you like.” If you have a vision or ideas for your senior photo shoot, I will move heaven and earth to help make them a reality. If you have no idea what you want, we’ll talk it out, come up with some fun ideas, and let the spirit of adventure carry us. Molly’s mom was an incredible help throughout our shoot, with great visual ideas and the eye for details that only a mom has.

E-mail me, Facebook me, tweet me, or call/text me at 830-688-1564 to set up your senior photo shoot – it’s never too late to make great photos and lifelong memories!

Below, enjoy some of my favorite highlights from my shoot with the lovely Miss Molly.

Megan is a delightful, artistic, academic superhero, and no less a senior at Bandera High School. She and I had a great time touring Bandera from the City Park up through the old Cabaret Dance Hall last week and made some fun photos along the way.

Senior photos are about way more than just looking pretty for the camera. You want the location, the attitude, the style to be memorable and important to you as a Bandera, Medina, or Utopia high school senior. You want photos that capture your personality, your interests, and your hometown. The memories made through photography are about more than just what you look like your senior year, they’re about who you are.

We have plenty of time before graduation to get your senior photo shoot in for 2011. Just e-mail me, hit me up on Facebook, or call/text me at 830-688-1564 to get set up.

Enjoy below some of my favorite highlights from Megan’s senior photo shoot!

Callie can’t stop smiling.

Sometimes as a photographer, pulling teeth is easier than getting a great, natural smile out of your subject. Medina High School senior, athlete and rodeo cowgirl Callie had the exact opposite problem during our photo shoot last week – she couldn’t stop smiling.

It’s a good problem to have, mates.

Needless to say, shooting with Callie on her family property in Medina was a real pleasure. Her mom helped set up some gorgeous outfits, and we worked every opportunity for fun photos – horses, fencelines, bridges, water features, green grass, wavy grass, hilltops and hillsides, barns, and one mean-looking John Deere tractor. Callie was a supermodel throughout.

My April calendar is booked to the hilt with senior photos, but it’s not too late to set up a shoot in May and still get files and/or prints back for High School graduation invitations – for Bandera, Medina, or Utopia.

If we shoot in the evening, I can turnaround a proof album online for you within a few hours, and have your order at the lab the next day. Our professional lab, Miller’s Imaging out of Kansas, usually takes one business day to print, one to ship, one to deliver – so in as little as three business days from your shoot, you can have prints in hand ready to mail out to friends and family.

You can also purchase our digital files, hi-res and fully processed in Photoshop, on CD and make your own prints at home or at the lab of your choice – fastest turnaround you can get.

It’s never too late, mates! Drop me an e-mail, grab me on Facebook, tweet me on Twitter, or call/text to 830-688-1564 to get your shoot booked. As always, we have no session fee, no minimum order, you just buy what you love.

Below, enjoy a selection of some of my favorite highlights from my shoot with Miss Callie.

Enjoyed the wonderful company of Medina High School graduate Leianna last week for a photo shoot around Bandera. She and I have shot together for almost four years now – we’ve done studio, urban, location, and Leianna has even modeled for my photography workshops.

As always with Leianna, it was a really fun shoot. We’ve done so many styles together, that for this shoot, I used camera gear I never use for portraits and went to locations I’ve never shot at before in Bandera. Turned out great thanks to her smooth style in front of the camera.

It’s never too early, or too late, to get your high school senior photos done. I work each year with Utopia High School, Medina High School, and Bandera High School juniors and seniors, as well as lots of young adults from the surrounding area: San Antonio, Boerne, Kerrville, New Braunfels, and so on. If you would like to set up your senior photo shoot, just drop me a line.

A few weeks ago I did a photography workshop alongside Kerrville photog Kari Reed, and Hannah and Leianna were kind enough to come out and model with us down at the City Park here in Bandera.

We had a lot of fun and made some great photos! Thanks guys for such a beautiful autumn session.

Cold weather is no time to stop taking outdoor photos! Now is when you can whip out the winter-weather wardrobe and make awesome, stylish, fun, fashiony photos. Never too early to get your Christmas card photos done, as well, and it’s always warm in the studio for our baby and maternity clients!

Book your shoot today! E-mail me at James@outlawphotography.net or ring me at 830-688-1564.

The inimitable and talented Ian, a longtime friend of the stage at Bandera High School, came in last week with a need for a quick round of headshots for an upcoming play audition.

Theatre people are always great in front of the camera. They know how to throw a pose and express an emotion or feeling through their look and body language.

Ias, a senior who graduated from Bandera High School this year, was no different, and we sat down together after his shoot to look at the photos on our massive viewing monitor. We picked out our mutual favorites, looked at them in color and black and white with different crops, and he picked out these three as his favorites.

Many thanks for the great shoot, Ian, and I hope your stage career is wonderfully successful!

Read about and see our coverage of the Bandera High School 2009 graduation ceremonies at the UTSA Convocation Center over at our Bandera County sports and events site, Bandera.net.

You can always tell the creative types by their imagination in front of the camera.

Courtney, a wonderful dancer with the BHS Star Steppers, was definitely a fellow artist. As I’ve written here before, there is much love to be shown to traditional portraiture, but what gets my creative motor going is doing something new and exciting.

Courtney had a bunch of wonderful ideas for her shoot, and she was ready to go with whatever opportunities presented themselves. We shot in the studio, against the studio wall, on the carpet, outside the building, in the auto graveyard behind the mechanic’s shop, and as is senior tradition, down along the Medina River.

I had so much fun and the photos make wonderful additions to my portfolio. Thank you Courtney for a great shoot!

Keep in mind seniors, with no session fees and no minimum orders, it’s never too late or too early to set up a shoot with us.

I know graduation is within a week or two for all of our Bandera County high schools, but we can rock great senior photos post-graduation, over the summer, and for up-and-coming seniors, anytime. If you’ve already done senior photos with another photographer or studio, please don’t hesitate to give us a try. There’s no cost, no risk, and the fun factor is most high.

Give me a call or e-mail me to set up your shoot! We’re always ready to make some Uniquely Wonderful art.

Many thanks to all those who came out to support Project Graduation at the Bandera High School Prom Fashion Show on Sunday. Outlaw Photography was there and happy to support such a fun event and worthy cause.

We set up our studio on location at the Silver Sage Corral and snapped photos of the lovely models as they exited the runway. The guys were hamming it up and the girls look fabulous in their prom dresses. My job behind the camera was made easy by these seniors.

You can find all of our photos from the event over at Bandera.net in the Photo Gallery. I snapped a few candids and plenty of studio shots of the seniors and Jacklen grabbed some candid runway photos as the models strutted their stuff.

While Mike Keith and Co. traditionally do the official formals at prom for Bandera, I will be out snapping candids on the dance floor at Schreiner for the Bandera Bulletin, and Jacklen is thinking about doing a make-up and/or formal pre-prom photo shoot special event earlier in the day. If you’re interested, e-mail her and let her know!

Links:

Bandera.net

Prom Fashion Show 2009 Photo Gallery at Bandera.net