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Looking for a fun location for your High School Senior Portrait in Fairfax County? Old Town Fairfax is one of my favorite locations for High School Senior Portraits. You can get gardens, trees and some amazing old building backgrounds all within a couple blocks of each other! Erin’s mom and I have been planning for […]

A Sunny Senior Session in Old Town Fairfax

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If you’re an actor, your headshot is your single most important marketing tool. If you want to be taken seriously by casting agents, and when it lands on that decision maker’s desk or computer monitor you want the reaction to be “Wow! Let’s see that person!” When shooting headshots for actors, I often get the […]

Actor Headshots: What Makes The Best Headshot?

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If you are over 40  like me, you may remember the the “Brek Girl” shampoo ads back in the day in your “Seventeen” Magazines. They were usually beautiful blondes with the sun backlighting their long hair and a wide smile. This is what I kept thinking as I shot this stunning senior, although the antiquated […]

Paige’s Senior Session: Peak Fall in the Park

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  Last month I took these headshots of executives of Shelter  House, a community-based, non-profit organization serving homeless families in Fairfax County, Virginia. They were gearing up to participate in the Allstate Foundation Purple Purse Challenge, and even though it ends on October 25, I wanted to help spread the word and also share a […]

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