Simon McConico | Valo Photography http://www.valophotography.com/blog/simon Quirky Wedding and Senior Photography brought to you by Valo. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:24:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Justin – Senior http://www.valophotography.com/blog/simon/2010/09/justin-senior/ http://www.valophotography.com/blog/simon/2010/09/justin-senior/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:24:25 +0000 Simon http://www.valophotography.com/blog/simon/?p=2578 Justin had an idea. He wanted to rock some photos in a super cool swank lobby of the Hyatt Hotel downtown. He gave them a call, got permission, and it was on like Donkey Kong. We got some sweet pics there then ran around outside for a  bit. Check out his photos.

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Sometimes you have things planned and they go wrong, other times you have things planned and they go even better than planned. I was planning on shooting in the fifth ward with Samantha, which we did, but we also got to shoot in a pretty cool club, which was not planned, but was super cool.

Check out her photos:

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Kelsey met me downtown and we ran around shooting photos all over the place. The light was great in Milwaukee and we worked it for all it was worth. Check out the photos.

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Oh man. I really hate Chicago traffic. I have learned that google maps times do not always translate into real world time. I pulled in about 45 minuets late to the shoot and felt so horrible! We got to shooting right away and I totally forgot to pay the meter. Gah! There goes money down the drain.

We rocked some photos down by the lake and as we got back to the cars the light started to go down. It was actually fortunate that I came late because we got some really cool photos in the evening by Lake Drive. Enough rambling, here are the photos.

P.s. Things are CRAZY at Valo right now. Lots of weddings and photo shoots. Balance is key and tough to figure out. Thank you all so much for being such great customers/blog readers/people!

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This is her Twilight photo. She yelled at me for not seeing the movies or reading the books… Sorry?

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