Allison and her mom came down to Kansas from Iowa for her senior photo session. I love taking people to places of natural beauty for sessions because I find these places inspiring and I hope they do too, but also because I want to build our human connection to nature. My thinking is that, if we create moments and memories in our natural environments, we will grow to care about them more, planting within us a desire to protect and advocate for them.

 

These photos were taken at the Haskell-Baker Wetlands in Douglas County, Kansas, a 927 acre wetland nature preserve where 'students, faculty, and nature lovers have identified 278 species of birds, 98 other vertebrate species, and 487 plant species'.