A thriving tradition

“I started taking photos my freshmen year. I decided that I didn’t want to stay still at a band concert, so I asked to borrow my mom’s camera and started then and kind of taught myself how. Most of my clients are seniors, the class of 2018. I ran a deal for my senior project of taking senior portraits, which came along with setting up a photography business, where the first eight to sign up get ...

“[Modeling] has always been something that I wanted to do because one of my close friends, Gavin Casalegno, was always into it. I always thought that it was kind of fun but never something that I tried to pursue.  To be honest, it’s a lot of fun. We went to Downtown McKinney, and recently we went to Dallas and [the photographer Stacie Weever] rented out this penthouse. We had a pretty professional thing going o...

“With senior modeling, Aimee Louise has this special thing for senior models were she does this whole interview process. She asked about us and what kind of things we did and then [chose her] senior models. She was really great with us because we got to pick where we wanted to go, and I had really special ideas about going to Dallas and rented out a theater to take photos in there. It was a real...

“One of my friends posted something on her Twitter about signing a modeling contract, and I was really interested. I contacted the owner of [Optical Poetry], and she said that I could fill out this form, and I signed a modeling contract. At first, getting your picture taken is very awkward because you don’t know if you should smile, where to put your hands, so you’re kind of just standing there...

“My sister did senior pictures with [Aimee Louise], and I was pretty interested in it. I auditioned for it by submitting an application and [having] an interview. She selected me and a few other girls from schools, and we have different shoots and I’m her senior rep. For my senior photos I did a setting in a field by a barn at Mckinney Cotton Mill. For her senior shoot, I was in a group of seni...