Meagan {{Tulsa Senior Photographer}}

Meagan.  I was excited about this one for quite awhile and believe me, it did not disappoint. 

She's a funny one, this girl.  Up for anything. 

When she first got out of the car I was greeted with a husky 'Hi, I'm Meagan'.  Oh, do you have allergy problems?  No, I'm just losing my voice.

Well, sweet Meagan.  I figured out your secret.  A certain friend of yours spilled and told me you lost your voice because you were cheering on a certain baseball team!!  Busted.

Friends, I'm still holding on to hope that this sweet little thing is going to choose my Alma Mater for her college of choice.  Hey, if it helps... our football team is #2 in the poles!!!!!! (Go Pokes!)

And ya know, because none of us are satisfied with only 4 images.  Here's a slideshow of this beautiful senior!

Glitz & Glam :: {Tulsa Senior Photographer}

Do you have a senior graduating in 2012?  ARE you a senior graduating in 2012?  do you know someone who is? 

This is the deal for you and it only runs through the month of July so book early... we're almost sold out!

Taking Applications :: Senior Representative Program :: {Tulsa Senior Photographer}

Schools are letting out.

The stores are filled with shorts and tanktops.

And most important?  Snow Cone Shacks are open for business!

What does all of this mean?  It means SUMMER is almost here and we've got a new class of SENIORS about to relish in all that it means to be Seniors!

So what does this mean for you all?

I'm looking for unique 2012 seniors who want to be part of my Senior Representative Program!!!

In exchange for your help promoting Allison Lee Photo to your friends, you'll receive a free senior photography session!

One male and one female student will be chosen from each of the local high schools in Tulsa and its surrounding areas:

(Bartlesville, Owasso, Jenks, Broken Arrow, Bixy, etc.)

Now for the deets...

In order to be a senior rep for ALP, you must:

Be a senior graduating in 2012

Be camera friendly (if you hate having your picture taken this probably isn't the position for you ;)

Have a fun sense of personal style, be unique... funky even!

Live in Tulsa or it's surrounding cities/suburbs

Agree to promote Allison Lee Photo to your friends and classmates

Represent ONLY ALP & use the images from your session as your senior photos

Return a photo release signed by you and your parent/guardian

If you are a part of ALP's Senior Representative Program, you'll receive the following:

A free senior photography session

Unlimited shoot time

Two sessions (a fall/winter AND spring/summer)

A proofing gallery to select your favorite images

A CD of low-res, watermarked images to be used on your social networking page (Facebook, Myspace, blog, etc.)

50 senior rep. cards.  Each card will be personalized with your name, your photos and our business information to hand to your friends and classmates.

3 mini albums of your images to be used to show your friends and classmates (and so you can give one to mom and grandma!)

An opportunity to earn print credits and print discounts for each person you refer to Allison Lee Photo

A $50 prepaid Visa gift card will be awarded to the senior rep with the highest number of rep cards returned by January 1st, 2012 (**must be at least over 10 returned cards to qualify)

Card can be spent however you like

You'll earn referral discounts for each referral you send to Allison Lee Photo:

1-3 Referrals - 10% off print order and $20 print credit

4-6 Referrals - 10% off print order and $40 print credit

7-10 Referrals - 15% off print order and $60 print credit

11+ Referrals - High-Resolution DVD of all images from your session

All senior reps must agree with the following terms and conditions:

Senior representative sessions must be scheduled and take place before August 14, 2011.  You may schedule an initial session before August 14th and a follow-up session to take place before January 1st, 2012.  This might allow you to have the fall landscape as well as the summery Oklahoma weather in your portfolio.  Rep cards will be given to the reps before September 1st, 2011.  All students will be entered into the drawing for the $50 Visa card, but only rep cards before January 1, 2012 will count towards the drawing.  Any rep cards after January 1st, 2012 will still contribute towards your print credits and discounts, but will not count towards the Visa gift card drawing.  When your referrals book a session and pay in full, you will receive credit for that referral.

Any referral that presents your card when booking their session will receive 10% off of their senior photography session.

Be sure and tell your friends about the perks of the senior rep session.... they can sign up for the 2013 season!  Your participation in the program will not only introduce you to fun & funky, personalized photography, but wlso a way to help your parents out and earn incentives towards your session for senior portraits at little or no cost!  All students must return the aplication, including the model release, before June 30, 2011.  This program is first come, first serve so be sure to act fast if you're interested.  All reps will be contacted and announced on my blog July 13, 2011.

TO ENTER:

Please send me an email to allison@allisonleephoto.com with a photo of yourself & the school you will be graduating from (for my records)!

I will send you the full application & model release.

I can't wait to work with you!!

A Little More Changed :: Tulsa Senior Photographer

One of the absolute joys about my job is being able to shoot seniors.  I love every minute of our time together because I always leave a little more changed than when I arrived.  I always talk about how eager and ambitious my senior clients are, which is all very true, but it's the things smaller than that that change me.

Throughout our senior sessions I hear everything from small grumbles of parents 'making' their kids live at home while staying local for college (look at the bright side:  free rent!  You'll appreciatte it one day) to eager shrills of excitement when I ask if they're ready to graduate.  I say I leave a little more changed because by shooting seniors I will never forget those special years in my life.  I am constantly reminded by the eager shrills of just how exciting it was to graduate.  I remember everything that has come since high school graduation and how much was ahead of me in my journey.  All of this makes me so excited for my seniors.  For that moment in time I know something they don't know.  I know just how much fun is ahead of them!

Internet, this is my new, beautiful, friend Alex.  From the moment she stepped out of the car she was glowing with excitement and eagerness for her pictures, which all comes to live through the images we came up with.  I loved our time together.  What can I say, she made my job easy!

So, for your sake, I'll quit the ramble and get on to the images.  Here she is.  As beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside.  Have fun at that 'other' University dear.  I'll think of you during bedlam :)

It's ok.  When I look at these I die a little too.

To view Alex's complete session go ahead and click the play button below.  It doesn't dissapoint.  Promise!

Standing Out From The Crowd :: Tulsa Senior Photographer

I think every time I shoot a senior I fall even more in love with my job.  I always say this, but they are so full of life and ambition that it makes me excited.

Manessah was no exception.  She was game for anything which allowed us to get some pretty amazing stuff for her senior pictures.

The thing about seniors is they all want their images to stand out from everyone elses.  This is what I love so much.  We match up well because I don't want my clients pictures to look like everyone elses.  I want every session to look different and reflect the individuals in each image.  Sure, you can go to Jo-Schmo down the street, but you'll probably have to stand next to the same pillar 1,600 other people stood next to and place your hands juuuuust so.. you know, just like the 1,600 people before you did.  I don't want that for my people.  I want your session to be fun and I want your friends to look at your pictures and say, oh my gosh!  That is so cool!  Because, what just happened?  You look way cool and I get that giddy happy feeling inside because I made you look so cool to your friends.  Double score.

Manessah, you are an absolutely breath-taking senior girl and when I left your session, I, again, couldn't wait to run home and get them on my computer.  Here you go my dear.  Your senior pictures in all their awesome cool'ness.

Please do not change, alter, edit or crop these images in any way.  All images copyright of Allison Lee Photo.

Beauty From The Inside Out :: Tulsa Senior Photographer

Seniors have this zeel about them that no other age group can replicate.  I always get so excited to shoot seniors for this very reason.  They're open to your ideas.  They want very edgy/unique images that will make them stand out from the rest of their graduating class.  and this is what makes me fall head-over-heels for them every time.

Miss Hannah is an absolute delight.  Just looking at her images has me swooning.  I only wish I could have worked the camera like she did when I was 18.  Heck, I wish I could do that now!  I can take pictures.  I cannot however, be the subject in pictures.  I become quite awkward. 

Not this girl.  Man, she jumped right in and took me for a ride. 

Hannah - you are gorgeous.  You're the kind of gorgeous all mom's hope their daughters will become: from the inside out.

Oh, and internet.  She's even more awesome for her choice in colleges.  Hannah will be attending my Alma Mater this fall and I couldn't be more thrilled about it!!!  She's going to look awesome sporting all that orange!!

And, now that you're biting your nails in anticipation of her beauty, I'll quit my ramble.

Friends, meet Hannah.

I warned you of her beauty.  You just didn't believe me, did you?!

Again.  Icing on your cake.  Hannah's complete session slideshow.

The Best Is Yet To Come :: Tulsa Photographer

Alright, as promised I have something very exciting to share with you all.  Will this change your lives?  Probably not.  Will you get as excited as I did?  Umm... yeah, again, probably not.  BUT, because we're friends I'm sharing it with you anyway.

Yesterday, that fabulous employee sporting the solid brown ensemble with the three little letters U. P. S. arrived on my doorstep.  Little did he know that package he was holding was going to make me jump for joy and almost want to hug him!  I said almost. come on peeps.

I scribbled my signature as fast as I could and snatched up that beautiful brown box as quickly as my little hands knew how.

And what was inside?  Well.... only this!!!

Like I said, you probably aren't as excited as I was when I saw that beautiful brown truck pull up, but let's just pretend you are.  (and yes, sorry the pictures are small.  I took my own but don't have them with me at the moment.)

So there you have it internet.  A beautiful new Nikon D3s is the newest member of the Allison Lee Photo family and I couldn't be more excited!!!!!

Drive & Ambition :: Tulsa Photographer

Here's a fun little session I was able to capture a few weeks ago between rain storms.  It was quite the adventure to say the least!

This beauty will graduate in the next couple of months and is heading to college on a softball scholarship.  Way to go girl!

Motivational Design: Tulsa Photographer

You dream of colors that have never been made.  You imagine in songs that have never been played. 

This is Megan.  Imaginative.  Inspirational.  Motivated.

She will graduate this spring and venture out into the world of graphic design... for a degree that is.  Obviously this excites me to see fellow artists going after what they love.

Megan,  congratulations on your awesome achievement and 'go get 'em' in the design world!

Hawaii'an Glory: Tulsa Senior Photographer

What a fun guy this Joshua is.  From the moment he e-mailed me I could sense his energy and enthusiasm.

This guy is graduating from High School in a few short weeks, and when I asked him where he would be attending college he replied with a nonchalant... BYU...HAWAII.  Seriously?  How can you just spring it on a girl that you're about to go to college in Hawaii.  Not fair.  And definitely not cool.  Joshua, I think you should have just left it at BYU and kept the Hawaii part for yourself.

I then had to run home and tell Caleb all the reasons why I needed to go back to school... in HAWAII.  He hasn't bought into any of them yet, but don't you fret for one little minute friends, I'm a persistent little gal.

So, here he is in all his HAWAIIan glory: Joshua... before he gets all tan living in paradise.

Aaaand, because everyone loves a good slideshow - check out his full session & leave him some comment love.  don't skip out on the comment part, it makes me sad.

Trust Me On This One: Tulsa Photographer

Friends, meet Katie.  She's young, beautiful, and a student at my Alma Mater. woohoo! 

This spring Katie will graduate and wonder out in this big world - I think she's ready!  She is a construction management major and, like we all were, is ready to get out and start her life.  And to that, I say to you Katie, STAY!  Stay in school as long as you can. Grown up life doesn't come with Spring Break, Christmas Break, Thanksgiving Break... or heck, you dont' even have the option when you wake up each morning to think.. hmm... do I want to go to class today?  Nah, it's too nice outside.  So, STAY Katie.  Pick another major.  I promise you'll thank me later.

But, since I know you're going to go ahead and graduate, Congratulations!  Proud of you sister!

So, without further ramblings, friends, meet Katie.

Bless Her Heart: Tulsa Photographer

There are things we learn as we mature that allow us to describe people in phrases.  Girl with a heart of gold.  Girl next door. Those type of phrases.  I never understood why we used them until I met this beauty: She's all the phrases we ever learned growing up all rolled into one.

Dea will graduate in a few short months and make her way to my Alma Mater's worst nightmare: the University of Oklahoma.  Bless her heart.  Another phrase we learn growing up that allows us to say 'I feel sorry for you' in a nice Southern way.  But anyway.  Miss Dea, in all her talent, will be trying out for the OU cheer squad in the next couple weeks.  For that, I may have to cheer for her.  Her.  Not OU. 

She's gracious.  Beautiful.  Kind.  Loving.  Energetic.  Shy and astroundingly gorgeous.  (I know, I already called her beautiful, but she deserves gorgeous as well).  She's the kind of girl you want your daughter to be.  The kind of girl that is beautiful from the inside out - and it shows!

So take a gander.  And if you love her... leave her some love in the comment section.  And if you love her a whole whole lot, you can cheer for her as an OU Cheerleader... but only as a cheerleader.  Leave all that other love for my Alma Mater.  Go Pokes!

I'm tellin' ya - she's gorgeous!!

And because everyone always wants icing on their cake - Dea's complete session slideshow.

Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover: Tulsa Wedding Photographer

Don't judge a book by it's cover.  Well, friends.  Now, I hope you judge me by my new cover!   Straight outta the box - I give you the new DVD and Case.  I spent the last few weeks designing these bad boys and am oober excited to share them with you! 

So, take a look.  Drool over them a little.  And let me know what you think!  Do you love them as much as I do??... probably not, but a girl can dream, right?!