Category seniors

David: Class of 2011

I love senior por­traits, with the excep­tion of every year they’re the same age and I’m another year older! David is Sarah’s nephew and was the first of my class of ’11 seniors. Soft spo­ken and kind. Very chi­val­rous. An all around good to know kinda guy! We met at Swa­sey Park­way and wan­de­red (ok, they wan­de­red, I hob­bled in my then upgra­ded air cast) around to cap­ture some year­book photos!

Con­gra­tu­la­tions David, you’re 12 way through senior year! Hope it’s been good so far! :)

~melis­sa­ko­ren

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Sarah’s Senior Photos 10.09.09

Sarah’s dad won her senior photo ses­sion through a door prize I dona­ted to the Exe­ter Cham­ber when I first became a mem­ber. I met her and her mom in down­town Exe­ter and she chauf­feu­red us around to a few great fall loca­tions we’d both scou­ted out. 

Sarah just exu­des con­fi­dence — I think she should be a super model.

Bring it in tight! 

I love shoo­ting wtih 2 came­ras set up with dif­fe­rent len­ses. Two totally dif­fe­rent fee­lings with out either of us moving an inch. 

I like the chauf­feu­red life! Thanks Sarah & mom for a great tour of our town!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren 

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Jahnna’s Senior Photos 10.04.09

I first met Jahnna at her mom — Heather - & Dave’s wed­ding and was super exci­ted when Heather emai­led and asked if I’d be willing to shoot Jahnna’s senior photos. 

Willing?! Hono­red is more like it! I made the trip up to Laco­nia on a beau­ti­ful Sun­day after­noon and this gor­geous senior worked.it.out.

So fabu­lous! I love the hat, and the flo­wer, and the sass!

Jahnna — I hope your senior year was everything you hoped it would be and more! 

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren 

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Kody’s Senior Photos 09.21.09

Oh Kody. 

Kody’s aunt Sarah and I have been friends since 7th grade. After taking pic­tu­res for Sarah, her sister/Kody’s mum Jenn & their brother Mike — Jenn got in touch with me to find out if I could take Senior Pic­tu­res for her baby boy. First I said no — but only because it was just simply not pos­si­ble that the tiny baby I remem­ber was a SENIOR. Once I rea­li­zed how old I am I hap­pily said yes yes!

Kody is a character.

And a pirate? 

And a tree frog.… 

But he is also hand­some and intelligent.

I said it once and I’ll say it again.

…Oh Kody.

I’m glad for the moments from my past that creep into my now!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren. 

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Corey’s Senior Photos 08.30.09

How to make me feel old -

1) Make a really good friend fresh­man year in high school and become close with her and attend her family func­tions and get to know her tiny cousins.

2) Tell me one of those tiny cou­sins is about to BE A SENIOR in High School. 

That’s about it. At least for this lesson.

Corey was a great sport and super pho­to­ge­nic (if you ask his mom he got it from her..;))

We met up at one of my favo­rite pla­ces, Great Island Com­mon in New Castle, NH on what star­ted out as a gor­geous afternoon. 

Then as we wal­ked out on the jetty this ama­zingly thick and fierce fog came rolling in! Yeah, rolling, like a bow­ling ball towards the pins. Ten pin not cand­le­pin. Because that’s how I was raised!

Whoosh — there goes the horizon! 

I think it sca­red the birds away. Yeah, that’s it. And no mat­ter what anyone says I was not at all con­cer­ned that that sea­gull was going to dive­bomb Corey and then come after me. Not one bit. 

It’s coming on shore now — see it eating the tree in the right hand photo? It was crazy!

We retrea­ted even further inland towards the cars and I asked Corey if he wan­ted to swing — he didn’t even hesi­tate and jum­ped right on!

Gra­dua­tion is just around the cor­ner and Corey will be off to monu­men­tal things I’m sure! Thanks for let­ting me cap­ture this moment in his life!

You did an AWESOME job. Thank you so much. ~Sherry

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Dominique’s Senior Photos 08.25.09

Domi­ni­que is one moti­va­ted girl. I couldn’t ima­gine a bet­ter per­son to win the free sit­ting I dona­ted to the my good friend Sue Kennard’s Relay for Life Karaōke for a Cure event last May. (This years Cureoke is May 8th in New­mar­ket, I’ll be dona­ting another cer­ti­fi­cate so make sure you stop by and sup­port the cause!)

We met up on a week­day mor­ning at the beach and Domi­ni­que totally roc­ked it out. This girl has mad plans — but because I’m such a slac­ker blog­ger I can’t remem­ber what they are! All I know is that come June she’s going to take over the world so you’d all bet­ter watch out!

Sass & Cha­risma. It’s the per­fect combination.

Also — she was game for my silly little tricks. ;)

These next two are my favo­ri­tes — I sat on the rock first to make sure it wasn’t going to make her filthy, but what I didn’t know is that once she was all up in posi­tion, she would have to use all her might to keep from sli­ding down it. It was a riot!

Our time together was over all too quickly but I loved wor­king out an early mor­ning ses­sion at the beach for this 2010 graduate!

Con­gra­tu­la­tions Domi­ni­que! Schools almost over! I wish you all the best :)

~Melissa Koren

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Montanna’s Senior Pictures 08.16.09

My first class of 2010 senior this past sum­mer was Mon­tanna. She and I met up on a hot August day at Pres­cott Park in Ports­mouth to rock out some fabu­lous shots. She was up for anything and so sweet but dri­ven all at the same time.

And my favo­rite from the shoot -

She’s such a pho­to­ge­nic girl! We could have shot all day but it was HOT so we hug­ged goodbye… now she’s almost gra­dua­ted! At least I got her on the blog before she hea­ded off to college ;) Con­gra­tu­la­tions Mon­tanna — You’re almost there!!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren

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