Class of 2012 Senior Reps!! {Mid Michigan Senior Photographer}

Yup...that's what I said, Class of 2012. Can you believe we are talking Class of 2012 already? Crazy I know. I actually started getting requests for Senior Reps back in the summer and have filled most of my spots. But as I said in my last post, Mt. Pleasant High School became a big school for me and ended up being the biggest representation for Class of 2011. So...needless to say, I would like to have some reps from the Mt.Pleasant area for next year.

I am looking for 1, possibly 2 Senior Reps in the Mt. Pleasant area. They can go to Mt. Pleasant High School or Sacred Heart Academy. Yes, guys...you can apply too :)

Reps for Hayley Hamlin Photography, must be in good academic standing, be influential in their school, liked by teachers and students, have a great attitude, be involved in extra curricular activities,be a good role model, AND of course MOST of all...you must LOVE MY WORK :)

So, what's in it for you as a Rep for Hayley Hamlin Photography?
Trust me, my reps gets LOTS of perks!! :) Here's the "official" perks ;)
~ 2 sessions for less than half the price of 1 regular session fee!!
~ Earn credits with every referral!!
~Tons of Facebook pics
~Additional free goodies and discounts!!

So, what do I need to do as a Rep?
~Well...of course, you must LOVE my work and be willing to spread my name.
~Hand out your personal rep cards (after your first session). Until then you will be provided with business cards to distribute
~Use images from your session as your profile pics on Facebook
~Share links to my site, blog, fan page, your gallery, etc with everyone you know.

So, pretty easy huh!! So what are you waiting for? Let's ROCK your senior year!!

To apply to be a Rep for Hayley Hamlin Photography, email Hayley at hayleyjhamlin@hotmail.com with the following information...

1. Name and School you attend.
2. Friend me on Facebook so I can review your page.
3. What sports or activities are you involved in?
4. Anything else you'd like me to know about you.
5. Why you want to represent Hayley Hamlin Photography.

Please make sure you talk this over with your parents before applying. Once my reps are decided on, you will get a full welcome packet with more details. Your parents must sign off to allow you to represent my business.

Representing Hayley Hamlin Photography for the Class of 2012:
Alma High School ~ Melanie Yost
Fulton High School ~ Audrey Maier
Will you be next?

Applications are DUE by January 31st. All reps will be announced by Feb 15th.

To see my work, visit my senior website!!

Hayley Hamlin ~Seniors ~ Original Senior Portraits that capture the true essence of YOU!!

Featured Senior~Bethany~Mt.Pleasant High School {Mid Michigan Senior Photographer}

Mt. Pleasant High School was my largest school this year for seniors, and I have not shared any of their sessions yet, so we are going to get started with the Beautiful Bethany!! Bethany came to the Alma area to have me take her photos and we hung out around Alma and some neighboring towns :) I have some awesome clients who let me use their private property for shoots, and I am very thankful for them!! :) We ended Bethany's session at one of these locations so I wanted to say a special thank you to them for letting me use their property!!

I'll share some more MPHS seniors soon!!

Bethany's eyes are just amazing!! I loved all the texture of this background :)

I love this one of her, I still think it's my very favorite :)

I love these next 2 photos. Thank you Bethany for going with the flow with me on these!! I am so glad you loved them as much as I did !! :)

You are never too old to play in the "wishing flowers" !!

And these are always favorites of mine, when you catch them in "real" moments. I am sure she was laughing at me. Probably one of those "you want me to do what?" moments...lol :)

And 1 more from the last location we went to :)

Thanks for letting me be apart of your senior year Bethany!! You are gorgeous and I have enjoyed getting to know you!!

till next time...

Thankful...

Thankful....

There really are no word to even express the thanks I have in my heart. I am truly blessed in my life. Although I feel blessed all year long and am thankful and grateful each and every day, Thanksgiving is such an appropriate time to share my thanks with all of you for blessing my life. Thank you to ALL my wonderful clients for making this yet another year of blessings for my business. I have met so many new and wonderful people this past year. I am excited about the relationships that have began this past year with new clients. I am also very grateful to all my loyal clients who allow me to continue to be apart of their families lives, it truly is an honor for me to continue to capture your families memories!! You all are so much more than clients to me, I am thankful to be able to call you all friends.

Photography is not just a job for me, it truly comes from my heart and soul. I believe God blessed me with this talent for a reason and I am thankful to HIM for allowing me to see the world the way I do. God provides so much beauty in life and being able to capture that for others is such a blessing in my own life.

"Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God" ~Leo Buscaglia

I hope you all have a Blessed Thanksgiving!! Thank you for being the ones I can share the "gift" that God gave me.

God Bless...

And because we can't have a post without an image :)

The "B" Family {Mid Michigan Family Photographer}

This past August, the "B" family came from Bay City, Michigan to have me photograph their family here in Alma. I showed you a few pictures of their little guy by himself right after their session, but have not shared any of their family photos yet. I absolutely loved their session, so many beautiful memories were made. There little guy was such a dream to photograph and their family photos are full of love and laughter. I walked away from that session feeling inspired and refreshed. Thank you for letting me be apart of your families memories :)
They ended up ordering a lot of large wall portraits for their home in black and white, so I am going to post a series of black and whites for this post. Even though, I promise, I did do color images too...lol :)




These image melt my heart!! What I would give to have images of my family like this!!

The look of wonder and excitement on his face, I just adore in this one. I just love photographing children, they are so honest and refreshing!!

Can you hear the laughter...love this!!

I adore these, there were a few like this, but this was the one they selected for a large print.

And here is the whole series of little man "D" bring his mom a flower, I adored this moment so much had to put it in a storyboard. :)

Next time, I'll share some of the little guy by himself, I love those images too!! Such a beautiful session!!

Till next time...

Featured Senior~Jordan~Alma High School {Mid Michigan Senior Photographer}

I met up with Jordan for her senior session back in July. Jordan dances for The Academy of Performing Arts located in Downtown Alma so I was very excited to do her session. I shoot the recitals for APA but I have wanted to do some photos of a dancer at the loft location I use, and Jordan's senior session was the perfect time to do so!! I put together a DVD feature of the dance portion of her senior session. Jordan is such a beautiful dancer and I loved capturing the art of dance through my camera lens. Can't wait to photograph her Senior Solo at next year's recital :)

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Till next time...

Featured Senior~Katie~St.Louis High School {Mid Michigan Senior Photographer}

First off I want to thank everyone who played in our Senior Comment Game!! It was a huge success and lots of fun!! The winners were announced yesterday and I thought this was an appropriate time to feature Katie since she was our big winner :) You can check the fan page for all the awesome seniors who walked away with some cool prizes!!

Katie's session was my last session before having my surgery. I was pretty sick at this time, but thank goodness for adrenaline rushes, because I knew as soon as that camera hit my hands, I'd be good to go and I was!! Even though it was back in September it happened to be the coldest senior session I have had this year, but Katie was a trooper!!. Katie is gorgeous, I could have photographed her all day :)

Thank you for letting me be apart of your senior year Katie, I am so glad I got to meet you. I love meeting all these awesome seniors because although many times we meet for the first time as strangers, I walk away calling all of them friends.

I adore this first one. These true honest moments are the best!!

Congrats again Katie on winning the Senior Comment Game!!