Unique Senior Class Portraits

So I just recently had a request to do a shoot for this year's Senior Class Pictures. Sam from Tennessee asked if we could do something a little different from the normal woods and hay barrel scene class pictures. She wanted something that expressed more of who she is and what she enjoys so in effort to make this happen we headed out to the beautiful west jetties of Destin. Sam spends her summers down here on the beautiful beaches of Destin so beach portraits were most certainly the appropriate scene for something like this. Finally after a week of trying to dodge the rain the day the weather was forcasted to be clear sunny skies we headed out to the beach. We watched a dark storm cloud lurking just north of us as we walked to our destination (about a 20 minute walk), keeping our fingers crossed that it was headed that way. After what seemed to be a very long stroll out to the tip of the jetties we started to notice a horrible smell coming from the water. Turns out red tide decided to roll in that late afternoon, leaving the coastline covered with washed out dead fish and the thick gooey algae splashing onto the beaches everytime the surf came in. So here we are faced with red tide and massive storms surrounding us. I started shooting immeditely and surely enough 15 minutes into the shoot the rain came pouring down on us. These had to of been some of the biggest raindrops I've ever seen! Now remember we had to walk over 1/2 mile to get to this location so running and getting in a car or under any shelter was out of the question. The closet thing we found for shelter were some of the rocks that make up the west jetties. We thought if we just waited it out the rain would pass and we could go back to shooting. It didn't exactly happen like that so we decided to make a run for it and continue the session the following morning. The next morning we got up and I met Sam on the EAST jetties were we finished the shoot. It all turned out great and we got some amazing shots! I especially love some of the shots from the rainy red tide evening, where the sky was almost black but a sunset was peaking out behind the storm and the rocks were covered in a magnificent shage of green! So here I will share some of the photos taken from both days! I think it's safe to say that Sam will have some very unique & original photos to share with her fellow senior class this year! I hope you enjoy these images and please to be sure check out my website at www.kimberlyjbarnes.com