Hamilton High School Class of 2027 Sneak Peek | Drew
Drew's Warehouse Senior Session
Hamilton High School Class of 2027 | Sneak Peek
What do you do when your kid picks the location and it's a warehouse?
You say yes. And then maybe you text me, a little nervous. That's fine too.
Drew was at my studio for his pre-session consultation, flipping through one of my sample albums, and he stopped cold on a page. That one. That's where I want mine.
Concrete block. Rough wood beams. Chipped paint. Not a tree in sight.
He didn't ask if it was allowed. He just KNEW. And honestly, seniors know what they want way more often than we give them credit for...they just need somebody to say yes and then go make it happen.
So I called my friend Andy. (Thank you, Andy. Truly.) The day of Drew's session, we all met at his warehouse.
Here's the part I didn't know until we got there. Mom had questions.
Not out loud. But I've been doing this for fourteen years and I can read a face. We're meeting at a warehouse? For senior pictures? THIS is the plan?
Fair. Totally fair.
Two frames in, I turned the back of my camera around and showed her.
That was the end of that.
She was in. Instantly. She looked at that little screen and saw her son...brown tee, jeans, hands in his pockets, leaning into a beam like he'd been standing there his whole life...and every ounce of doubt walked right out the door.
That moment isn't an accident. It's the same thing I do in the first two minutes of every single session, whether it's a senior girl who is a little bit nervous or a senior boy who told his parents he didn't want to do this. You get to see what I see. You stop bracing. Everybody relaxes, and then we go make something amazing.
Now picture the alternate version of this day: a pretty park, because that's what you're supposed to do. Nice trees, nice light, nice photos of a kid who looks like every other kid in the yearbook.
Not Drew.
His album and his wall art come home in the next few weeks, and I already know exactly what's going to happen when his mom holds them. Same face she made at the back of my camera. Just bigger. (And I can’t wait!)
Class of 2027, this is your year. Not next spring, not after basketball season, not once things calm down (BTW, they will not calm down). Now, while the calendar is still yours to fill and your kid still has opinions about warehouses.
Let's get you scheduled. Book a call and tell me what your senior's version of Andy's warehouse is.
P.S. If you're a mom reading this thinking, “my kid would never pick something like that”...you might be surprised. The consultation exists precisely so I hear that answer before session day instead of after.
