Ella - Class of 2021 - Saugatuck, Michigan

More beach sessions please!

Saugatuck was the perfect place for Ella to have her senior photos! Her mom has been bringing her to Saugatuck ever since she was little, so this gorgeous place was sentimental to her and I love that! We started downtown and finished up at Oval Beach on Lake Michigan!

We played tag with the weather for quite awhile on the day of Ella’s session! It was raining on and off once we got downtown so we tried to wait out the rain. Once it would stop, we’d take photos for a few minutes and then hide under an umbrella that I brought when the rain would start up again! The rain was actually great because it made all of the colors downtown really pop!! Downtown is filled with cool architecture and cute shops, which made for plenty of amazing backdrops! The coast of west Michigan has such an abundance of cute beach towns!

After finishing Ella’s downtown photos, she made a quick stop at her airbnb to fix up her hair from the crazy weather and then we met up again at Oval Beach. It was SO cold and windy! Ella actually did her senior session in October, which isn’t the warmest month for beach photos! Ella wore black leggings under her long black dress for an extra layer of warmth and we made lots of trips back and forth to the car to warm up! The wind made Ella’s dress flowy flawlessly in the wind, it was breathtaking! When she changed into her second dress, she actually kept her leggings on but added a pair of sweatpants on top, as well as a pair of duck boots! You would never know that she had so many layers on ;) She is so effortlessly beautiful that she looked fabulous in the cold weather and whipping winds. We had incredible sunset and then we finished the session (with freezing toes). Her beach session may have been cold, wet, and windy, but we made the absolute best of it and you’d never know how crazy the weather was from looking at her pictures! I am absolutely obsessed with her senior photos, she is STUNNING!