Christmas Eve Senior Pictures

I went home to California for Christmas and it was sure nice to be able to wear short sleeved shirts. I miss it already! Now I'm at home with my Christmas present - my new baby puppy Catalina! She is a 7 week old black lab with a fiesty personality. She has separation anxiety and always wants to be right at your feet. She loves to chomp her little teeth on everything. I have a little santa hat I am going to put on her and do a little photoshoot, so pictures next time.

My mom had my brother go into a studio to get senior pictures taken and they all turned out really corny and not real-looking at all! While I was down for Christmas I took my brother out to see if I could capture his real self on camera - ie, not the fakesy smile, the real smile. We went to the beach first but it was so sunny that portraits would have been terrible. As we were driving around, I found this awesome red dumpster that we took the majority of the shots in front of. Here are my favorites:

Our one shot on the beach: