This Seattle high school senior portrait session has to be one of the coolest I’ve ever photographed. For starters, her outfits were absolutely incredible (I mean, those biohazard pants)!!! And I love her green hair that actually appeared as multiple different colors under the hugely varied lighting we had that night! Yes, she wanted an urban shoot in Seattle at night! So that’s what we did! I’ve done quite a few shoots at night back in my San Francisco days, but now that I’m in Snoqualmie, there just isn’t much to photograph here at night. But in the city, there definitely is! All sorts of lights come on at night in the city and we made a fun outing of it by just wandering around and finding cool stuff. There were no specific locations planned (other than yes, we might stop by Pike Place and the gum wall), but other than that, it was all about discovery and using what was available. And seriously, it was awesome! We found so many cool things from interesting dark alleys, waterfront lights, colorful signs and lighting, and a garbage truck! It’s funny, the garbage truck initially barged into our alley and almost ran us down, but ended up stopping so long that we figured it was pretty much posing for a picture, so…

Yeah, we had a pretty awesome time! I always love doing something different! And this extraordinary senior is anything but ordinary! She’s actually pretty heavily involved in the theater at her high school too. So when we found some cool colored lighting by the Can Can, we all got super excited to try some things! And her mom helped out as my lighting assistant for some of the shots too, so it was a group effort. Yep, we cooked on this one!

Thank you both for the amazing urban night session! It was so much fun working with you! Have a an awesome senior year! Congratulations class of 2026!