The Bristows get family photos taken every summer vacation. It’s their thing. But this year felt different, and they knew it. Makenna is about to be a senior. Next year she’ll be in college. And for a family that’s spent seventeen years doing everything together, that shift is coming whether they’re ready or not.
They found me through Google while staying at the Four Seasons, and the first thing her mom said was that they were excited to have family photos that weren’t on a beach. They’re from the East Coast, so the Tetons were something entirely new for them. Mountains instead of waves. Sage instead of sand. A landscape that made all three of them stop and look.
Makenna is the kind of person who gives you everything. She’s played soccer since she was four. Her team won state championships last year. And she’s raised over $20,000 for March for Babies, a cause close to her heart since she was born premature. She is fierce and tender at the same time, and that came through in every frame.
Her parents have been married nineteen years and still look at each other the way you’d hope. They’re a tight three. The kind of family where you can feel the closeness without anyone saying a word. This was never just a vacation photo. This was the last summer with their daughter before everything changes.
Still There When They’re Grown
The Bristows invested in two framed pieces for their home, one of the three of them and one of Makenna on her own, plus a set of small prints for a gallery wall. That gallery has been growing every summer for years, one vacation at a time, one portrait at a time. And now it will hold this one too. The last summer before senior year. The mountains they’d never seen. Their daughter, exactly as she is, right before she becomes whoever she’s becoming next.
This Is the Year: Book a Discovery Call
If your family is planning a trip to Jackson Hole and your senior’s last summer at home is on your mind, visit jennaboshart.com and book a discovery call. I’d love to hear your story.
