Beckie {Oklahoma Senior Photoshoot}

Posted on July 20, 2010

Do you know how when you initially meet someone you instantly get a warm fuzzy feeling that the person standing in front of you a really GOOD person? Beckie is that kind of girl. Bubbly, sweet, adorable, good natured and she doesn’t get the least bit cranky when sweating buckets in the Oklahoma heat…and yes folks I know that last statement for a FACT! Meet Beckie, she’s one of my Senior Representatives and she’s soooo much fun!!! And just also happens to be COMPLETELY STUNNING!

See? I told you she was stunning! Beckie is more than just a pretty face though, she recently created this OUT OF THIS WORLD CREATIVE slideshow to one of her favorite songs. Click this link to view her work. I love it SOOOO much that I immediately bought the song. SOOOO good! I’m just so impressed at her creative ideas!
Remember during my last post I mentioned how amusing I am?? Well I MIGHT have been slightly exaggerating since I’m more of just a certifiable goofball, but none the less Beckie amused me and laughed constantly thoughout the photoshoot. The verdict is out though: Am I funny? Or do my clients pity me and laugh at me despite my dork-factor?? Hmm….well for whatever the reason check out these BEAUTIFUL images I captured of Beckie and her beautiful smile! I love how she rockes her model expression and then I said something clever (or just goofy) and she then flashed her killer smile!

I’ve had this idea for awhile to convince a client to basically really forcefully shake their head back and forth over and over…and my gracious, seeing that written out sounds completely insane!! But none the less Beckie went with it and I LOVE how fun these images are!!!!!!  SHE IS SO ADORABLE I CAN HARDLY STAND IT!!!! Can you see these pictures without feeling the urge to belt out the line from Outkasts Hey Ya? “Shake it, shake it, shake it like a polaroid picture” ???? 

I love this shot endlessly! Check out how she’s working it and twirling her hair, my gosh the camera loves her!

I happened to look over and saw this truck parked casually on the side of the street and I instantly fell in love with it for several reasons:
1. It’s old and beautifully used
2. It’s a vibrant blue
3. No one was around and it beckoned me to use it as a prop. Yes, seriously…it beckoned me.
Beckie agreed it was rad and posed it up.

I LOVE jumping pictures and Beckie got some serious air. These make me SOOO happy, it’s impossible to see these and NOT smile! I love how much energy she has and how well that came across in these images.

When Beckie first emerged with this outfit on I was SOOOO ecstatic!!! I LOVE the gold jewelry and the little black dress – CLASSIC GORGEOUSNESS! Her outfit just popped against this background too.

I actually went on this photoshoot with the goal of using shadows in a more creative way…and I LOVE how this turned out.

This building makes my heart go pitter pat. The texture, the ivy, the light sunlight spilling across the image….I LOVE THESE IMAGES SOOOOOOO MUCH! I think Beckie might have been a witness to a happy dance when we came across it. I am a bit confused as to how a branch came to come out of the window, but MAN does it work. I hope they NEVER REMOVE IT!!!! This location is pure awesomeness. And can you stand how modelesque Beckie is??? She’s too beautiful for words!!!

Anyone wanna take a guess what year she’s graduating?? ’11 BABY! Dance it up and hold up those index fingers and rock your graduating year!! Love that we got this silhouette shots before the sun set completely.

Beckie – you are such a wonderful person and I had a lovely time taking your photos and getting to know you. I really do appreciate you being in such good spirits even as we were sweating our guts out. Hope you love these!

Posted by Annie of Annie Pennington Photography
Oklahoma High School Senior Photographer servicing Choctaw, Harrah, Midwest City, Jones and other areas within Eastern Oklahoma County.

Megan {Oklahoma High School Photoshoot}

Posted on July 13, 2010

About two months ago I announced I was taking applications for High School Senior Representatives and Megan was one of the applicates, I’m SOOOOOO excited to show her off to you all!! Megan is sweet and fun and has a fantastic smile and was such a joy to photograph. 

She’s not only sweet she’s an incredibly good sport. For starters she agreed WITHOUT COMPLAINT to start her photoshoot at 6:30am. Yes, you read that right – 6:30 AM!! She was even right on time. We were attempting to avoid the miserable muggy Oklahoma weather, but didn’t really succeed, my gosh it was so humid out!! Still she never complained and just was a good sport the entire time!

When I had her sit for the following photo a cop car came whipping around the corner and stopped to chat with us. I was SOOOO NERVOUS and was looking around frantically trying to figure out if I was in ANYWAY breaking the law – I wasn’t on private property but I was FREAKING OUT INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ends up the cop thought she had fallen and was checking on us. HAAA! For the rest of the photoshoot he’d drive by occationally and Megan would make sure and wave at him each time, very cute!

Oh Megan…you are beautiful!

One of Megan’s best assets is her gorgeous smile!!! And for some crazy reason she actually found me amusing which worked out BEAUTIFULLY since she flashed her stunning smile so many times!
Picture #1: Fierce Megan – that’s right girl, WORK IT! It wasn’t even hard for her to rock that first expression, I basically said, “GO!” and there she went, being awesome!
Picture #2. Annie goofiness begins, causing a natural awesome smile.
Picture #3 Officially succuming to a deep belly laugh caused my yours truely. This happens often…I’m just THAT funny.

Isn’t her outfit ADORABLE?! I love that she’s an Oklahoma girl who knows how to find her country side. CUTENESS!!!

SUCH a pretty girl!!! And see that adorable smile on the right…yup that was my doing. See? I told you I was funny! (Well at least to Megan I am. Hee-hee)

And in closing my FAVORITE from the entire session. LOOK AT THAT SMILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just gorgeous!!!!!

Watch for Megan later on during the school year when she she’ll have a second session with me to help document her senior year. I’m SOOO glad she applied to be my Senior Representative to help represent my business and tell all her friends about how OUT OF THIS WORLD funny I am!

Posted by Annie of Annie Pennington Photography
Oklahoma High School Senior Photographer

2011 Senior Model Search

Posted on May 31, 2010

UPDATE: High School Senior Reps have been chosen for the 2011 school year.

Just a reminder that the deadline to apply to be my 2011 Senior Representative is two weeks away on June 15th. As a Senior Representative you agree to represent my business to your family, friends and classmates and in exchange you get all kinds of FREE items and benefits. I know it might seem a bit early to think about Senior Photos considering it’s currently the Summer of 2010 but I offer a unique opportunity to my Senior Reps, you get not just one, but TWO photoshoots! One at the beginning of your Senior Year (Summer 2010) and again at the end of your Senior year (Spring 2011). This way you get two sets of images to fully document your last year in high school. I love photography so much and I absolutely love making my clients look and feel like ROCK STARS!! Please visit the link titled Senior Model Search for more information on all the perks available and to apply. Don’t forget to add my facebook fan page as well:

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Posted by Annie Pennington of Annie Pennington Photography
Oklahoma High School Senior Photographer

Calling 2011 High School Seniors!

Posted on May 21, 2010

UPDATE: High School Senior Reps have been chosen for the 2011 school year.

Watch this fierce slideshow and then scroll down to read about an exciting new announcement!
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Posted by Annie Pennington of Annie Pennington Photography
Oklahoma High School Senior Photographer

Wedding Photography

Posted on March 30, 2010

When I was four years old my little brother Zach was born. I’d been an only child for four years and had gotten fairly accustomed to playing by myself, so it was nice to finally have a playmate and I quickly gained the title of being his number one girl, and he was my number one boy. We were homeschooled so we were each others day to day playmates. Sure we had friends that we played with as well, but day to day, he was my main source of fun (well and fighting on occation!). Through the years our free time was spent doing everything from the regular like swinging, playing tag, jumping on the trampoline, to the more unique such as chasing our goats (don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it!), falling from the tallest branch we could reach and making fun of the loser (the loser being the one who winced or cried – and yes both our knees are shot now, no shock there). We were quite the pair. So now fast forward in time and my number one boy has grown into a man and I’m so excited to share he has a new number one girl. She’s wonderful and they are just perfect for each other. It thrills me to see how much she loves him. I was honored to photograph their big day and here are a few of my favorites from the day:

The beautiful bride (I adore her fantastic eye makeup and eyelashes!!!!)

The handsome groom (with his rockin’ awesome chin dimple still peeking out through his beard)

And my favorite from the entire day. The wind was blowing like CRAZY that day, but I love the way it made her dress blow in the breeze with this one:

Congratulations Jessica and Zach. I’m so, so happy for you both!

Posted by Annie of Annie Pennington Photography
Couples and Engagement Photographer serving Oklahoma

Whew…

Posted on March 19, 2010

It took awhile, but we’re FINALLY in our new Oklahoma home!!! We left Germany the end of January and finally moved into our new home in Oklahoma mid March. We spent our “homeless period” visiting family and while we were so grateful for their hospitality, I’m sure everyone is glad to have their homes to themselves. We’re still waiting on our furniture to arrive and once it does I’ll try to update with a few indoor shots of our new home, but until then I wanted to share a few images I took of my precious little brother Zach and his soon to be bride Jessica. They are getting married soon and wanted a few images of them together and I was more than happy to capture these for them!

I just adore their expression here!!!

I adore these hammock shots SOOOO much! Makes me want to lug a hammock with me on every shoot!

I adore clouds!!!!!! Especially big fluffy ones surrounded by beautiful blue skies!

This one might be my favorite from the day. This boat is from mine and my brothers childhood. We spent sooo much time out on this boat as kids, so I’m glad it’s included as a small part of his adult life too.

But as much as I love the boat shot, the award for my personal favorite photo of the day goes to this one. I love the emotion here. Love how Jessica’s hair is blowing in the breeze, love how she’s leaning and resting into Zach, love the expression on Zach’s face, love the rustic background, love the black and white conversion. Love, love LOVE this shot.

Posted by Annie of Annie Pennington Photography
Couples & Engagement Photographer serving Oklahoma

America!!!

Posted on February 3, 2010

I’m finally back in America where I belong! It was a LONG flight from Germany but we made it!! I was so excited to step foot in America and even though we’ve been here over a week when I step foot into American establishments and hear all English, it just makes me feel so happy and emotional! We’ll be getting settled into our Oklahoma life eventually, but for now we’re visiting my hubbies family on the East Coast. The last time we visited was about 1.5 years ago and I took some pictures of my brother in law John and his then fiance Ashley, they are now married and on a cold snowy afternoon I drug them outside my inlaws house and snapped a few quick pictures of them. They are a wonderful couple and I have SOOOO enjoyed spending time with them!

Favorite 9 in 2009

Posted on December 31, 2009

At the end of each year I love to post my favorites images taken during the past year.  It’s sooo much fun to browse through each years set of favorites to see how much I’ve grown and changed as a photographer! Here are links to my past end of year favorites: 2007 2008

2009 is especially special to me because it’s the close of our last year here in Germany, we’ll be moving in the next month or so and while I’ve had a lot of hard times adjusting to life here, I also have grown a lot. I dove into photography to begin with because I was lonely and sad here and needed some kind of creative outlet to put my energy into and photography fit the bill. So as I close out my last and third year here in Germany I’m for one – THRILLED because I’ll be back to living the easy life in America with closets, pay at the pump gas stations, mail delivery to your door & Target BUT I’m also sad because I became a photographer here and had such a plethora of gorgeousness to capture with my camera. I learned how to be stronger and more confident as a person and a mother during all the deployments my hubby went on, but most of all – I met some fantastic people!!! I met some seriously great friends who I’ll miss greatly and I cherish the opportunity I had to get to know them and become a part of their lives.

So here are the Top 9 Client Images taken during 2009:

1. April 2009

I so adore photographing teenagers, especially when they are ready to work it.

2. April 2009 – Sisters.

I two sisters of my own and I have two precious daughters so the interact between sissies is so special to me. I just adore how they are looking at each other and are oblivious (or at least appear to be oblivious) to me. LOVE when I get to capture a photograph that’s all about the subjects interacting with each other, not with the camera.

September 2009 – Sunflaire lovin’

Between April and September I had to take a break from accepting clients because my husband was deployed and I wasn’t sure who I could leave my girls with while he was gone. So when he came back and I got to start taking photos again I was a little nervous! This photo was my first photoshoot in 6 months and I was worried I wouldn’t remember what all to do! This great couple are friends of mine, so they did make it easy and were so much fun!!!!!! Love their silhouettes that inclue her sweet pregnant belly. Love the sunflare and the beautiful German sky. LOVE!

October 2009 – Running

I had this idea in mind for awhile. I love the idea of capturing the parents faces as they watched their sweet babies run into their arms, but for one reason or another it hadn’t worked out with past photoshoots, but when I started working with this family I realized this was my opportunity!! Their children are hands down the most affectionate and loving kids EVER! Big brother especially couldn’t stop loving on his family, so I knew the kids would have a blast with my explicit instructions: Run towards your parents AS FAST AS YOU CAN, then hug them AS HARD AS YOU CAN!” They were ALLLLL for it! Love these!!!

October 2009 – Giggly Sissy

This is the BEST WALL IN  ALL OF GERMANY! Okay…that might be a bit extreme since there is no way I have seen every.single.wall in this country, BUT I’ll still stick with my statement that it’s the most fabulous wall in Germany. The lighting here is so amazing! The way the sun hits the opposite wall during sun set and how it bounces back onto this wall making it so bright and warm and…well…like buttah. I have hauled so many clients to this wall, but I like this pic especially because of Big Sissies cute expression. She kept falling into little giggling spells throughout the photoshoot and I just loved it. Such a sweet, loving little family.

October 2009 – Sweet baby

The sweetie is in the family image above. Look at her big expressive eyes!!! And I’m a sucker for baby feet, always try and capture them alone anytime I have little newborn photoshoots.

October 2009 – Running and Kissing

I can’t even express how much I adore this picture. It’s that wondermous to me!! Love, running, fun, kissing – man that’s the good stuff!

November 2009 Gnarly Tree + Kissing = Totally Rad

Photographing couples has quickly become one of my VERY favorite things. I just love LOVE so very much! I couldn’t help but put this gorgeous couple infront of this totally rad tree, hello  AWESOMENESS!!!!

November 2009 Upside down laughing

What could be sweeter than big sissy tickling little brother?? I so adore sweet sisters little simple black shoes, her adorable expression and then of course I love little bro’s laughing fit…good stuff!

Thank you to ALLL of the amazing clients I’ve had throughout this year. I appreciate your business and your trust in my work. I have really enjoyed getting to know so many of the wonderful people here at this base and will miss you all. I hope to one day run into each of you again in the future throughout all our various Air Force moves. Happy 2010 everyone!!!!

B&U {Couples Photography}

Posted on November 10, 2009

This gorgeous couple contacted me about a photoshoot this Summer and I was so excited when the date finally arrived for me to meet them and photograph them in their lovely village.

The weather was in typical German fashion rather gloomy, but that didn’t stop this couple from workin’ it!!!

This photo, from a creative standpoint is something I’ve been wanting to get for a really long time. The sun peeked out from the clouds for just a MOMENT and had them just run out and kiss in front of it and I nearly did a happy jig once I saw the outcome. The sun was so fleeting I had maybe a minute to get this and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS CAPTURE! It’s romantic, beautifully grainy & textured and just flat out hot stuff.

Do you know how challenging it is to find the perfect weeds? Well lemme tell you it is! HAA! They might have questioned my sanity a bit as I told them to go wade through the weeds, but I’m THRILLED with the outcome. When I see this picture this one thing screams through my mind: PERFUME AD.

Sigh…I love LOVE!

And in closing my favorite from the entire session. I saw this tree and immediately labeled it, “Gorgeously Gnarly”…cause come on…IT IS! I love it so much!!!

Thanks so much B & U for allwoing me to capture you both. I had a fabulous time and can’t wait to share your entire photo gallery with you!

H&D {Couple Photography}

Posted on November 4, 2009

I got an extra sweet deal when photographing this sweet couple. Not only did I get to spend some time with them and get to know them, they ALSO had the fabulous idea of conducting their photoshoot at a castle. So much fun!! For starters this is one of the castles. Can’t you just imagine Rapunzel hanging her head out of the top floor window??

Something else that made this location extra special is that this is one of their favorite places to spend their weekends. They’ll be PCSing in the next little while and I love that they will have these images to remind them of their time in Germany at a location that’s special to them.

The colors here in Germany in the fall are just so amazing!!

The weather was pretty gloomy and I was nervous the whole time that it would start downpouring rain on us! This particular shot was taken toward the end of the session and literally as I took the last image I was wanting to capture it started pouring!! The timing of the entire session was just PERFECT!

And in closing my very favorite from the entire shoot. This archway is just beautiful!

Thank you so much H & D for taking me along to one of the Germany spots that is special to you. Wishing you both the VERY best!!

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