Scott Family Photos

The day after Thanksgiving, I went over to the Scott's home to take some family portraits of the whole family. With two of the Scott kids now in college, it was very important to capture the whole family together before the kids are off and gone for good! I've known the Scotts for a few years, and they're a great family, with very talented kids and warm hearts!

We started out with a few photos outside, even though it was a little chilly, and then went inside for more group and individual portraits. I always believe in family portraits that Mom and Dad deserve as much attention as the kids, because most of the time, they haven't had a professional portrait together since they were first married.

The portraits were even featured on the family's custom-designed Christmas cards that were sent out to friends, family, and business associates. They turned out GORGEOUS!

I believe in the white glove treatment, where nothing goes out the door without being gift wrapped for delivery! It's just another level of fantastic customer service that I want to give in a world where great customer service is becoming harder and harder to find!

Enjoy!

Furry Winter Fun!!

Winter is the perfect time to wear furry coats, vests, and hoodies! You can do so many cute things with them!

And want to know a little secret? You can wear summer clothes in winter for your senior indoor shoot, and winter clothes in summer for your senior indoor shoot. Or you can just go wild and wear the clothes that match the outdoor weather. No one will ever know when you actually had your photos done!

What matters most is picking the clothes that flatter you the best and are your favorites, whether they are summer or winter clothes, or a little of both!

Can you guess in which season these wintery photographs were taken?

As always, click on the photos for the larger image, and check out more photos on my website at

www.shannonmatsonseniors.com

I Also Photograph Families!!

I don't just photograph seniors, I also photograph families!!!

Here is a recent holiday photo shoot with the Honrales family!! I usually try to not only photograph the family as a group, but the kids together and individually, and a few shots of Mom and Dad!

I am working on a family/children website that should hopefully be up in the next month or two, due to the increase in the number of family portrait requests I have been getting.

My main website is www.shannonmatsonphotography.com.

Jazz Coolness!

Here's Victor from Plano Senior High. He plays the Cello in the Plano Senior High Orchestra, so we figured we'd cool up a shot that might have been just a little too formal by adding a vintage fedora and some vintage style dramatic lighting.

And VOILA! We have a cool Jazz-playing dude who is the talk of his classmates! His friends couldn't stop talking about these photos!

If you play a musical instrument, come on in to see what cool and creative things we can do with you, too! We can even combine your Music Fantastic Senior Session Style with one of our Outdoor Safaris for some awesome on-location shots! We could do an urban shoot, go into the flowering fields in the spring, all kinds of musical coolness can be had!

Just give me some ideas about what non-traditional musical shoot, and I'll do my best to run with it! (And, we'll even take some traditional musical photos for Mom and Grandma, too!)

Click on the photos to see them larger! (Especially the photo with the cello on Victor's shoulders!)

Yes, We Photograph Siblings and Boyfriends or Girlfriends, Too!

You can add on a mini-session where you can get a few photos with your siblings, or some photos with your current boyfriend or girlfriend, or with your beloved pet, or your best friend!!

These are the people that are important to you in your life right now, so we want to capture the bond you have in this time of your life, too!

When you book your Senior Session Styles from the list on www.shannonmatsonseniors.com , just look for the Friends and Family Add on Style. It's just $29 per person (or pet), and totally worth it!

Here's a few shots of two senior siblings, and one of our senior models with her boyfriend.

TRASH THE FORMAL

Yeah, I know, the summer is gone, but that doesn't mean that we can't dream about the warm months coming in 2009. Want an unusual and fun way to cool off that will have all your friends talking?? Add on our Trash the Formal safari session and we'll take one of your old prom dresses that you would have donated to a thrift store anyway, and have some fun playing in the water!!

We have both a nice, clean water gardens location, and a muddier, rockier creek location we can go to.

Here's Natalie, one of our Class of 2009 Senior Models from Highland Park High School, having lots of fun in her much-hated old pink prom dress from awhile ago! (If you don't want to trash your old prom dress or suit, you can always bum around the local thrift store to find an old prom dress or suit for cheap.)

Just so you know, this is for girls AND guys! I'm an equal opportunity formal outfit destroyer!!

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Funky Fashion Grunge Session

Here is senior model Victoria from Plano Senior High School, in one of our Extreme Safari Sessions called the Funky Fashion Grunge Session. This is one of the best urban locations in Dallas, filled with the wildest backdrops in town!

Shannon Matson Photography is proud to be the ONLY Senior Photographer in Dallas to offer Custom Senior Sessions, where you get to design what YOU want in your session. No two sessions are EVER alike!!!

Please go to www.shannonmatsonseniors.com to check out the wide variety of Session Styles you can mix and match to create what shows who you really are!