The Senior Prom Rite of Passage

Years after one’s senior prom people often don’t remember much about it, unless something horrible happened, like your date broke up with you the night before prom, or you had a wardrobe malfunction on the dance floor or you caught your date kissing someone else. Those are the kind of memories you just don’t want to have. So what are you left with, your photos from prom, with what’s his name.  
The worst of prom photos are the ones where people are lined up on staircases, or a boy standing behind his date with his arms wrapped around her waist in a “she’s mine” kind of look. Most photos of kids all dressed up don’t look like themselves or their real personalities so when they look back on them with their hair done in ridiculous hairdo’s they wonder “who are those people?”
For Carter and her friends I was able to capture some of the real moments of them being themselves. 

Carter and her friend Evan Ballew went to prom together. Since at four years old Evan famously declared “Carter better than snack from the snack bar,” they went to said snack bar and posed for pictures with the swim team trophy from their years together. These are the images they will remember for the rest of their life.

It is not just the pictures with your date, but those with your good friends that you will look back on and have something wonderful to remember.