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!

You may remember Kyla from her engagement session a few months ago.  This woman is simply amazing.  Her heart is as pure as, well, something completely pure.  She loves deeply.  Lives fully and regrets nothing.

I've been waiting for a while now to debut her gorgeous bridal images, and, in honor or her beautiful wedding yesterday, here you have it!  The new Mrs. Kyla T.

Kyla you make a stunning bride and I couldn't be happier for you and Tyler!  Congratulations!!

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!!!!!

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?!



A Big. Gigantic. Thank You: Tulsa Wedding Photographer

You all made our day.  My photography partner and I could not be more thrilled with the way you all represented yesterday.  You absolutely blew us off our seats with your eagerness for pictures!

So, thank you.  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for allowing us to enter your lives and capture a small piece of what you love so dearly.

Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.

We cannot wait to begin working with all 158 of you!  Ya'll are the b.e.s.t.

Sweet Valentine's Day Gift Idea: Tulsa Wedding Photographer

Do you still need the perfect gift for your sweetheart?  Tired of the standard $60 roses? Don't want to spend an outrageous amount of money to impress the sox of of them? 

Today's deal on Living Social is a one hour photo session with yours truly for only $40 dollars!  With your purchase you will receive a CD of 10 images to print and an online gallery with the remaining images from your session.

I promise.  This deal is too good not to buy into! 

And the best part?  You don't even have to tell your sweetheart how much you did or did not spend on them!  A voucher will be sent to you via email and all you have to do is wrap up something cute saying you purchased a photography session for the two of you to make some memories together.

Talk about the best gift ever.  Your loved one will be extatic over this gift!  And guys, it's the easiest gift you can give!  After all, didn't you get her roses the last 3 years?  Gettin kinda old, don't ya think?

I'm just sayin.  This gift will make her eyes sparkle.  She'll think you went way out of your way and got her something extremely unique.  Dream come true.

So go buy it.  You have 24 hours until this deal expires.

To buy into my living social deal click HERE.  I promise.  You won't be disappointed.

The girl with the heart of gold

I tell myself every season I'm not going to watch.  Yeah, me and the rest of the female population.  But there's something about The Bachelor that just sucks me in.  I'm not infatuated with the 'falling in love' that supposedly takes place on the show... but more drawn in by the crazy's they cast to go on there.  Seriously?  Where do these girls come from?  And please tell me you don't really act like that in real life!

So another season.  Countless hours glued to my DVR just to watch as some 'love story' dissipates into thin air within mere moments of the show's finale. 

And, because you care... I'm sharing my favorite with you this season.

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This is my girl Emily. Not only is she absolutely beautiful, she has such a pure heart.  Her story is enough to make me cry every time I see her, and, well, she's just the one he needs to choose.  But I'll admit it.  I looked.. and Emily ends up as the runner-up.  Darn! 

So who's your favorite?  Or are you even watching the show?  If you're not, please don't hate me for gluing my DVR to record it every Monday night.

Free? I like free stuff!!

We're mixin' it up a bit over in these parts!  Today I'm announcing a GIVEAWAY!  And honestly, who doesn't just love something free. 

This one's a little competition to see just how many fans we can get on our fan page.  Currently, as of this morning, we are at 106, good job guys!  But that's not good enough.  We want more!  muahahaha.... sorry bout that.

So to spruce things up a bit, I've designed this little gem here.

There you have it folks.  All you have to do is like our page, go to your own status and make a post about this blog offer using this link http://tinyurl.com/296h2o3 , then make a comment on this blog post below telling me you've done everything... and if you just feel like hoppin' around, you can always visit our website.  There's some pretty awesome stuff there.  That's it!  All you have to do now is tell all your friends about it.  Blog about it, tweet about it, and keep facebooking about it.  Remember, the more you tell your friends and the more they 'like' our page... the better your chances are of winning!

So here's the real sweet part.  For every 25 additional fans we receive, we will give away a 30 minute mini-session along with 10 images on a CD for your printing pleasure.  How awesome is that?  And all you have to do is post a few things!  Saweet!

Ok.  Hop to it!  We will annouce the winners next Friday, January 14th... so stay tuned!

*** Reminder.  You have to go to our fan page on Facebook and like that page to be entered.  A few of you are liking this blog post with the like button above, which is great!!, but you have to visit the actual Facebook page too.  Thanks guys!

The Green Doors

The Green Doors I love love love this girl. More than love. I adore her. She is one of the most beautiful women I have had the opportunity to work with. Beautifully poised and without a doubt spunky as heck! This shoot was another cold one: I think the weatherman messed up. "It will be 75!" NOT. Poor E had such amazing goosebumps all through this shoot.... but we made it. Hot Chocolate and all!

Hey, note to self, don't park between two blue lines! Erin & I decided to shoot downtown today which allowed for some awesome backdrops, but man, we wound up meeting a very unhappy woman at the end of it all. Long story short, she told us our car should have been towed because we were parked between two blue lines. Ouch. totally worth it though. Take a look at what we came away with!

Erin Reiser What an amazing person. I have known this girl for a few years, and when she asked me to take a few shots for her modeling portfolio... I was more than thrilled to say yes! This girl has so much poise and whit to her, she continuously keeps me on my toes and laughing. Here is a sneak peak into the beauty that is Erin Michelle.