Best Friends Session | Florence High School | Missoula Senior Portrait Photographer

Katrina Weingart

VioletRay Photography

Missoula, MT

www.violetrayphotography.com

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This was kind of a "planned - impromptu" Best Friends session. I started
planning this session by doing concept pinning on Pinterest for a couple
months. Then, putting it all together using only props that I already had
and collaborating with the girls and what they had, we tried to focus on
recycling. Pulling from a "Hippie" vibe, we had planned to go shoot in one
of my favourite walking spots when a huge snow storm hit! Being natives of
Montana though, you work with what you're given and we stuck to our idea
and created our own hippie magic!

Hair Pieces: "Meg" and "Madonna", GracyLu Originals
MUA Team: Jenn and Hannah, Skin Chic

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Derek Senior Session | Missoula Senior Photographer

This senior session was alot of fun! Derek wanted to make sure his senior
images were special and different, so we went on a small hike along the
river banks of the Bitteroot River at Chief Looking Glass.

His personality totally shown bright in his session. He is an aspiring
musician, being a member of the drumline, pep band, and choir at Florence
- Carlton High. His goal is to go to college for Audio Science. He's an
active member in his youth group at church, and we even did some of his
images there in the UpperRoom, Youth Group hall!

As well as loving music, he took All-State in football and is in AP
Calculus! Wow! Go get 'em tiger!

Kyleigh Senior Session | Missoula Senior Photographer

Kyleigh came to me with ideas of her session. She wanted clean and
country. She wanted to stand out from all her classmates, in form of theme
and location. That got me REALLY excited because I live out in the country
of Florence, MT. We planned her session in her almost 3 weeks in advance,
and started praying that the smoke would all clear out! (Montana and Idaho
have been under extreme fire conditions since June!) When her session time
finally arrived though, the fires of Montana were in full force and
socking my 5 acre parcel of land in with heavy smoke. Kyleigh and her mum
were worried but I just kept reassuring them it was okay! I told them,
"lets just look at this smoke as a natural haze. A nice light diffuser.
It's going to be FINE!"

And it was!!! Each one of her images just naturally glowed! I'm so proud
of this young lady! She really let her inner beauty shine, and I'm also
thankful for the smoke. Not very often you'll hear a person say that...
but without it... this session wouldn't have been the same!

Enjoy the beauty and remember that each individual is beautiful! Inside and out!