Close-up senior portrait in golden light, Anchorage

Anchorage & Alaska · Class of 2027

Your senior year,
on your terms.

Editorial senior portraits with personality, polish, and a real sense of place — built around the person in front of the camera, not a template.

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Now bookingClass of 2027

WhereAnchorage + beyond

LooksStudio to summit

DeliveredPrint & social ready

Autumn senior portrait in a cream sweater and mustard skirt

Senior at a lichen-covered rock face in Anchorage — On location · Alaska

The approach

01 — 09

Not a yearbook appointment. A portrait story.

The best senior sessions feel specific to one person. We plan light, location, wardrobe, movement, and mood before shoot day — so the gallery has real range without ever feeling random or staged.

Planned around: You — your style, your story, your school timeline
The shoot: Relaxed, guided, and genuinely fun to be at
You leave with: Images that actually look like you

Style directions

Pick a lane, then make it yours.

Clean editorial, wild Alaska, downtown energy, or quiet and soft. We usually blend a couple — so the set reads like a considered collection, not a folder of disconnected poses.

Downtown

City sharp

Senior in a lace dress among golden grass

Open air

Wild Alaska

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Quiet light

Soft story

Senior on a ridge with glaciated peaks behind at sunrise

Where you live is part of the picture

We have the most cinematic backyard
in the country — let's use it.

Selected work

A full gallery has rhythm.

Close portraits, full-body frames, environmental wides, quiet details, and a few unexpected favorites.

Senior reclining in a black dress, black and white

Senior in a plaid shirt by a blue-tiled doorway

Senior on a dock by an Alaska lake in summer

Senior in an olive jacket in a rail yard at golden hour

Senior among tropical leaves, black and white

Two seniors holding citrus slices over their eyes in summer

Senior in a denim shirt against a painted blue wall

Senior beneath golden autumn larch branches

Senior smiling on a bridge rail, black and white

Senior in a black top by weathered driftwood

Senior with an updo against a colorful painted wall

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The session flow

Clear plan. Relaxed shoot.

Structure makes the day feel easy. We know exactly what we need — and leave room for the photographs that happen between the plan.

Consult

We talk timelines, personality, wardrobe, locations, and where the images need to live.

A real plan

Design

A route that gives the gallery range without burning the session on driving around.

Mapped out

Photograph

Guided posing, real movement, and plenty of space to settle in and have fun.

Easy & guided

Deliver

A polished gallery, yearbook-ready files, and crops sized for prints and socials.

Print & share

Senior in a navy blazer in a downtown alley

Senior in a blue knit by a weathered door

Wardrobe

Three looks is usually the sweet spot.

One clean classic. One personal. One a little braver. The goal is range that still feels edited — and a senior who feels like themselves the whole time.

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Yearbook ready

A clean option that meets school requirements and still feels modern.

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Movement friendly

Pieces that photograph well while walking, leaning, laughing, and turning.

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Personal detail

A jersey, an instrument, a jacket, a car — whatever actually matters to you.

Senior laughing with pink donuts held up like glasses

Personality

A lot more you. A lot less generic.

Great senior pictures don't flatten everyone into the same mood. Quiet, playful, polished, athletic, artistic, bold — every session gets its own pace, and the photos prove it.

In their words

"These are unlike any senior pictures we've ever seen. They actually look like her — and she hasn't stopped smiling since."

A Class of 2025 parent · Anchorage

Book the session

Let's build it around you.

Send the basics — school, timeline, season, and the kind of images you're after. We'll follow up with availability and a creative plan made just for you.

Emailhello@shalemphotography.com StudioAnchorage, Alaska

Your senior year,on your terms.