Meet Lauren.
This supermodel and I have had so much fun over the past year, working on multiple shoots. As you may have guessed, this beauty is a part of the Class of 2022 model team and she is always up for any creative and crazy idea that I throw her way.  During her main senior session, we experimented with a roll of craft paper, capturing a black and white image that is not only breathtaking, but that was featured multiple times nationally by high school senior publications.  I just kept asking her to trust me and she always responded with a smile and a yes. For her session, we stayed downtown Moline, but incorporated so many different areas – from a forest, to some cool alleyways and we ended on the top of a parking garage with this gorgeous red dress.

Here is a little about what Lauren had to say about her session with Moxie:
“I absolutely loved my session with Karen. She makes you feel so comfortable and she is like your personal hype man.  I was afraid that I would be stressed and nervous while getting my pictures taken, but Karen is such a friendly and fun loving person that I felt absolutely no stress or pressure at all during my session.  The whole session was a great experience and I would highly recommend her to anyone wanting to get senior pictures. Karen’s personality just makes the session even better. She is a very bubbly and funny person which helped me feel more comfortable during the shoot. I think anyone can take a picture but Karen really brings the pictures to life and shows your personality through your photos. Karen has a way with the camera for sure and with people. You can tell Karen really cares about all of her clients. She was a really great photographer and made me feel like I was taking pictures with just a friend. I am so glad that I got to have this experience because I have some really great memories from my senior photography shoot and I will cherish the pictures that she has taken. When it came to the shoot I knew that Karen was a professional and so I went into it with an open mind, which I think was the best option for me because then Karen could recommend poses for me, which I feel like just helped my pictures turn out overall even better. If I would have gone into the session having an expectation of exactly how I wanted the pictures to turn out I would’ve overstressed the entire thing and they wouldn’t have turned out as well, but when I just let Karen do what she wanted, they turned out even better than expected. . I feel like you can tell in all of my pictures that I am having fun and I’m excited to be there and I’m not nervous at all. I loved getting my hair and make up done professionally – that was a lot of fun!  Karen made me feel feel very welcomed and excited to take the pictures and we had some great conversation as well during the shoot. Honestly I don’t think I could pick a favorite picture because all of them say some thing different about me. I feel like she captured my entire personality through the session. Karen found a way to capture kind of what this vision that I wanted in my head that I didn’t know I wanted. I think the entire shoot was very memorable I don’t think I have a specific memory that is my favorite from the shoot because I can’t pick since they’re all my favorite. I loved how welcoming and nice she was.I think if I had my senior pictures taken by anyone else they would not have turned out as good as they did since Karen took them. I have a genuine smile that does not feel forced at all and almost all of my pictures because we were all having such a great time talking and interacting with each other. Go to Moxie Design for your senior pictures! I never thought that I could have such good senior pictures as I do until I met Karen and seeing all of the work she does. She has such a great personality and makes you feel so relaxed and welcomed during your session that there’s nothing that you need to stress about. The whole session was a blast and I had so much fun shooting it and I would highly recommend having her do your senior pictures!  I love Moxie Design because Karen made the experience something I will never forget.”

One piece of advice that Lauren has for other seniors getting their photos taken?
“Don’t be stressed or anxious about the shoot. I was a bit nervous when I went into this because I was afraid I was just gonna look a un-natural and not like myself but Karen really brought these pictures to life and I fell in love with them.”

If she could describe her overall senior session experience in one word, she would choose  “amazing.”

Thank you for letting us be a part of your senior year, Lauren!!

xoxo,

Karen

Moxie Design is an award winning boutique photography studio that specializes in providing a boutique high school senior photography experience in the Quad Cities and surrounding areas including but not limited to Moline &  Rock Island, Illinois, Davenport & Bettendorf, Iowa.  Karen Bishop, owner of Moxie Design, has been recognized on both a national and international level as one of the top up and coming high school senior photographers in the industry.  Moxie Design will offer you not only images that represent the awesome person that you are, but an experience that you will remember for years to come.