Asheville High School

Sharing The Shot is has officially started.

I am beyond grateful, excited, and overwhelmed with happiness!

Accidentally signing up for the Lang 120 course designated to service-learning has definitely been a blessing in disguise. Ever since I have been shooting senior portraits, I have felt a necessity to provide these special moments captured to those who could not otherwise enjoy them.

Senior year is expensive.
And, being a high school senior is a big deal.
Sure, there are other things in life that are big deals... Graduating college, getting married, landing a job, having kids... But graduating high school is one of the biggest accomplishments a teenager or young adult can achieve. People work seventeen or eighteen years in order to receive a piece of paper that is backed by an education, memories, and in most cases, childhood.

Graduating high school is an accomplishment each graduating senior should be proud of.
Walking across the stage to receive my diploma was a mixture of feelings--mainly because I was so nervous of falling, tripping, or something terribly embarrassing happening--but the greatest feeling of all was success. Accomplishment. Completion.

These moments we experience in life are golden.
They are worth, literally, more than a thousand words.
These moments we create, are not forever.
They are quick, and vanish in the blink of an eye.
These moments of great feelings, and success...
They need to be captured, and shared, and cherished-- for many years to come.

My goal in starting [ Sharing The Shot ] is to make this possible.

Luckily, even being a college student, I was able to create time to make this goal of mine possible.
The social worker intern at Asheville High School was able to find 3 graduating seniors willing to let me take their senior portraits.

The happinesses experienced from meeting and taking pictures of these three students has lasted to the end of my semester... It seems like just yesterday--because, well time flies so it kind of was-- that I was in the same position they are in... Choosing colleges, getting transcripts sent, saying the goodbyes to friends... Hoping you'll see them again, wishing things would hurry up...

It all goes by so fast-- and then you're done.
You are finished with a chapter of your life, and you wait to see what happens next.
Next.
The chapter we are currently creating... Making our lives what we want, what we have imagined. Accomplishing the dreams we never thought we could, and making each moment count.

[ Sharing The Shot ] at Asheville High School

To each one of you guys...
I wish you the best of luck. You are all capable of living the lives you dream of living... The lives you want to accomplish and look back at and be proud of. Always remember to smile, laugh, and give whatever you do all you got-- it does not last forever. 
I am excited for each one of you, and cannot wait to see where life takes you! Best wishes. <3