Between Florida, West Virginia and Ohio, I've had a great time shooting with and getting to know this class of 2026. Pretty sure Mason and I both just about froze to death on his first session at Tanks Stadium... Cash thought we were gonna catch a trespassing call... Holland came down to St. Cloud and we knocked out an amazing first shoot and never went more than 5 minutes from my house (that was awesome)... Rylan brought his A-Game on every session with all of his sports / casual looks... Gracie was determined to get us in trouble with the parking garage security more than once and we got some crazy good beach shots over in St Augustine... the Shashy brothers showed me just how serious they were with their hunting... I got multiple shoots in with Elise and somehow we avoided tick bites on her most recent one out on the farm... Caden showed off his soccer skills in the studio... and Ashton was able to fit me in to his busy schedule and did a quick mini-shoot on his lunch break from work! And hopefully I'll get one more shoot with him before it's all said and done — even if it's after graduation... I got a chance to work with Kyndall for the first time outside of volleyball and got some gorgeous photos of her... and I even got a couple of bonus seniors — Michael and Leyton (catch him on YouTube).

All that and I still have a few shoots left to do to wrap up the Class of '26 — and then it's on to 2027. Who wants to make some fun memories and get some great senior pictures along the way? I'm looking for seniors in the Ocala and St. Cloud areas of Florida as well as my usual stomping grounds up in West Virginia and Ohio. If you want in on the fun, click below to fill out the senior "vibe check" form so we can get things started!

A few months ago, my buddy Josh introduced me to some new (new to me) music from a guy by the name of Tyler Childers. He's a singer/songwriter from eastern Kentucky and it doesn't take very long listening to the lyrics of his songs to realize without a doubt that he was raised in Appalachia. His sound is like a fusion of bluegrass, rock and southern gospel. Grasspel Rock. 

Anyway, it didn't take but a few minutes of listening to his music on iTunes to realize he was going to be one of my new favorites. I grabbed up all of his albums and then started scouring YouTube for live performances. And knowing he was from the area, drawing much of his inspiration from his Kentucky home as well as time spent in West Virginia, I knew I had to see a live show for myself ASAP. On his site, I saw that he was coming to the V Club in Huntington for back-to-back performances, so I made sure I got myself down to that sold-out show. As a bonus, opening for Tyler was his wife Senora May as well as another (new to me) band "Blank Range". If you're not familiar, I highly recommend checking them all out.

Here are some photos from the show. I posted a few color versions to my instagram if you're interested in looking at those.