Aya

Aya is yet another talented and lovely soon-to-be graduate at ASD. Deep, sooty clouds were forming as I drove to the beach to meet Aya for her senior portrait session. Luckily, just was we started shooting, the sky opened up, and the most gorgeous light beams streamed radiantly through the darkness. Within moments the angry clouds faded, leaving the most wonderfully moody washed-out sky as our backdrop.







































Aya's good friend joined us for the shoot, and hung out just over my shoulder to make sure that Aya was smiling "normally." They were so cute! I love seeing sweet friends together!











I think she did a great job... seriously, look how gorgeous Aya AND her smile are!!!




Thank you, Aya, for asking me to document such a special milestone in your life! Best of luck to you in all your future adventures!

Stephanie

No, contrary to popular belief, we aren't dead... just super busy! And unfortunately, the blogs suffer when we get super busy. Sad, but true... =(

Introducing yet another talented, beautiful ASD senior... Stephanie! This girl has a set of pipes like you wouldn't believe. Her powerful, soulful voice will just send shivers up your spine! We've seen her in a couple of school musicals, and every time, we can't help but drop our jaws when she starts singing. I am so eager to see where Stephanie's incredible talent leads her. I met up with Stephanie a couple of months ago- Months?! Really? Are we THAT far behind??? Eeek!- just before sunset at the beach. The afternoon turned out to be oh-so windy. And beautiful Stephanie... well, she has loooong, flowing hair... enough said, you can imagine our dilemma... We spend the majority of our session patiently waiting for momentary pauses between gusts, and still managed to walk away with some gorgeous images where her hair wasn't standing on end!








































Thank you, Stephanie, once again for asking me to document this exciting milestone in your life. Best of luck in all your future adventures, and whatever you do, keep on singing!

Christine

I'm pleased to introduce Christine, another one of ASD's gorgeous and talented seniors! We first saw Christine when she portrayed a bubbly love-struck teen in our school's musical, All Shook Up. Donning a sassy pair of horned-rim glasses, and totally hamming it up, she was just too cute! We met with a far more subdued, but absolutely lovely Christine at Bastakiya for her senior portraits. Along with Christine's mother, we wandered through the narrow alleys and dreamy open air galleries, oohing and ahhing (ok, I'll admit I was even sqealing with delight at times!) as we stumbled upon perfect photo site after perfect photo site. Christine's mother surprised us at the end of our session with a beautiful book about the Bastakiya. It was such a thoughtful gesture, and a lovely momento from our day. Thank you so much!!! I seriously can not get over the incredible beauty of Bastakiya! Nor can I get over the incredible beauty of our model! Christine carried herself with such poise and grace, and she was so natural in front of the camera. I was absolutely floored when I learned that she had never before modeled! I think I must have asked her, "Are you SURE you've never modeled before???" somewhere around five or six times. I guess I was thinking if I emphasized the word "sure" enough that she would somehow change her answer. Umm, Christine, if your future plans don't work out, I think you could have an incredibly successful modeling career!
Thank you again for asking us to document this milestone in your life- we had an absolute ball with you!!!


Be ready for lots of images of this stunning lady! I just couldn't narrow them down...

Brock

It's pretty common for our friends and colleagues at school to stop and chat with us about Wayfarer- thank you ASDers for your support! Whenever anyone asks whose senior portraits we've taken recently and we say Brock's name, their immediate response is, "Oh, he's such a great guy!" Every single time! Without fail! How cool is that? And he truly is a great guy. He's so kind, and has a wonderful easy going sense about him. It was a beautiful, breezy afternoon when we met up with Brock for his senior portraits at our favorite beach spot. His mom, one of those fabulous ASDers we work with, tagged along, and it was so precious to see her watch Brock with such obvious pride and admiration. We know she thinks- scratch that- knows he's a really great guy as well!
Thanks again, Brock and Tammy, for asking us to document this exciting milestone for you! Best of luck, Brock, with all your future adventures!!!

Joanna

Joanna is another lovely ASD senior. She's an incredibly talented actress, and we saw her portray a fabulously sultry museum curator, in our school's hysterical fall musical, All Shook Up. Beautiful, intelligent, a great sense of humor, and oh-so talented- this girl is going places! We thoroughly enjoyed spending the afternoon getting to know Joanna while taking her photos at Jumeira Beach Park.








Hello, gorgeous!



There's a little of that sultry museum curator look... =)


















Uh-huh. Yeah, that's right. 'Cause we're rebels like that.


...Or it's 'cause we didn't see the sign 'til we were finishing up =)










Thank you, Joanna, for asking us to document this milestone in your life, and best of luck to you in all your future adventures!!!