The UT Tower seen down the mall above stone lettering reading University of Texas at Austin.
The work · Austin · Central

UT Austin

Forty thousand students, about six good backdrops.

20 frames·The University of Texas at Austin

The Tower, the fountain, the green doors, the mall looking south to the Capitol. Everyone graduating shoots the same handful of spots, so the difference is knowing the hour each one works, which are closed for events, and how to get a clean frame on a campus that is never empty. Grad portraits, department events, banquets and faculty headshots.

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The campus is never empty.

Getting a clean frame at the Tower is a matter of timing and patience, not luck. We go early, we wait for the gap, and we don't rush a nervous graduate through it.

Four graduates in graduation stoles standing knee-deep in the UT Austin fountain.
A graduate posing on the hedged lawn with the UT Tower rising behind her.
A graduate in cap and gown throwing her arms wide in front of a university building.
A graduate tossing her cap in the air in the plaza below the UT Tower.
A graduate raising her arms on the empty plaza in front of the UT Tower.
A graduate posing against the tall green bronze doors of a campus building.
Chapter 01

The Tower, the fountain, the doors

Six backdrops, used by everyone, every May. Hour of day and where you stand are the entire difference between a snapshot and a portrait.

The Littlefield Fountain on the UT Austin campus with the main building behind it.
Same six spots, done properlyFrames 09–11
A graduate in a yellow dress and stole on the marble steps of a university entrance.
A graduate on an ornate balcony beneath a decorated stone arch.
A woman in white seated on a stone bench outside an arched doorway.
Four graduates in stoles throwing horns in front of the green campus doors.
Three graduates in orange and gold stoles standing on the mall, the Capitol in the distance.
Three graduates in orange and gold stoles laughing together on a green lawn.
Everyone's Tower photo looks the same. Ours don't, and we were only out there forty minutes.
Graduate · UT Austin session
Chapter 02

More than graduation

Departments, labs, banquets and honor societies book all year. The campus work is not only a fortnight in May.

Guests seated at round tables at a campus banquet in a vaulted hall.
A man in a blue suit leaning on a bench beside stacked electronics in a campus lab.
A graduate in a maroon gown throwing horns on the steps below a 'We are Texas Engineering' banner.
Three students standing behind a registration table at a campus event.
A graduate in a yellow dress and Texas stole on a green lawn, the Capitol behind her.
Three students in formal dresses posed together at a campus banquet.

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