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August 25, 2017

Miriam + Sean

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My time as a high school teacher taught me how to instantly connect with teens and make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. I love photographing high school seniors all over the Greater Des Moines Metro and Midwest (yes, I’m willing to travel). 

Hi, I'm Carrie

Miriam & Sean have been with me since the very beginning of my business. Let me say that again, Theeeee veeeerrry beginning. They were the first people to offer to PAY ME to do what I do. I can’t believe that in two summers, I will be photographing their oldest’s senior photos! In the meantime though, we enjoyed our time in some back alley-ways downtown and took an adventure down the MLK east-west bridge for a different perspective on downtown!

Sean is so comfortable in front of the camera. Or, if he’s not, he certainly hides it well! You know it’s going to be a good shoot when the first one out of the can has expressions like this: 

Sean just keeps us all laughing and I snap a few in between and during the belly laughs. My abs may or may not have been aching by this point and we were just 10 minutes in!

Thankfully, there wasn’t a lot of traffic this particular morning-by our session time, most people were at the events that happen on a downtown Saturday rather than traveling to or from farmer’s markets etc. I would only venture into the street like this with an older family when I knew that the kids wouldn’t jump into the street! 

Miriam + Sean: Thank you so much for coming back again and again and again! I love my conversations with Joe about the latest game he’s mastering and commiserating with Thomas about marching band camp heat and fatigue. You guys do fantastically every time and these may be my favorites yet because of our adventure on the bridge. Thank you for trusting me to do that!! 

Blessings, 

Carrie

PS You can view more of our time together HERE. 

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My time as a high school teacher taught me how to instantly connect with teens and make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. I love photographing high school seniors all over the Greater Des Moines Metro and Midwest (yes, I’m willing to travel). 

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