I am so excited to share with you all my friend of 17 years, a beautiful woman on the inside and outside – and one of my best friends – Katelyn!  I had the privelage of heading to Destin, FL with her a few weeks ago to celebrate her 30th birthday and since this is what I do best, I asked if I could give her a photo session as my gift 🙂  We went for a super casual photo shoot as the sun was setting on our last evening – and I couldn’t believe the beautiful evening light that the Florida panhandle has!  We even got to utilze the sun and the moon at the same time and got some great shots of her.   (* For my photographer friends, all images were created using natural light only – no flash or reflectors and all were shot with my 85mm 1.4 lens)

Katelyn – I am so excited to see what this next decade brings for you and I look forward to being best friends and going on girls trips just like our moms — laughing about 2 decades of funny memories and making new ones.  You are such an incredible person, and the woman you’ve become makes me love you even more.  Keep smiling and enjoying life to the fullest – and thanks for letting me share your smile with the world!  Love you dearly…ok, I love you — bye bye!  Miss your face!   (p.s.  Whoop! Welcome to the SEC, y’all!)

After going through this session, the word “peaceful” kept coming to mind.  Katelyn – your grace, effortless beauty and calm demeanor are what make you the strong woman you are 😉

 

This series of photos I got when I moved between Katelyn and the sun are some of my all time favorites – the colors in the sunset sky, the moon, the blanket….just all works beautifully!

 

 

 

And then, it was time to have fun…and play in the beautiful, crystal clear Florida water!!

She was my post, I was her point guard.  Still got ups 😉

And now the fierce, model shots – work it!! Love these!!

 

During dusk, I noticed the sky went purple and just loved the look of high ISO and the colors with the moon – awwww….peaceful.

Huge thank you to Millie for being our shoot supervisor and to Jolie for having a yummy dinner ready for us when we got back from all this hard work 😉  Love you girls, thanks for a wonderful weekend get away and celebration!!

 

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