A fine art portrait experience custom-designed around your senior's personality, ideas, and style, not a fifteen-minute appointment with a generic backdrop. Up to five hours, multiple locations across Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, and the greater Houston metro, with unlimited outfit changes.
Every session begins with a free consultation where we design the day around your senior. One hundred seniors a year. Yours, with full attention and four decades of craft behind every frame.
Find Your Senior's Area
Conroe ISD · Klein ISD
Imperial Oaks · The Falls · Benders Landing · Springwoods Village · Old Town Spring
Conroe ISD
Carlton Woods · Sterling Ridge · Indian Springs · Hughes Landing · The Waterway
Conroe ISD · Tomball ISD
Grand Central Park · April Sound · Bentwater · Bridgeland · Lake Conroe waterfront
Memorial · Inner Loop
Memorial · Hunters Creek · Piney Point · River Oaks · Tanglewood · West U · Bellaire
Custom-designed fine art senior portrait experience based in Spring, Texas, serving The Woodlands, Conroe, Tomball, Magnolia, Klein, Cypress, Memorial Villages, and the greater Houston metro. Limited to 100 seniors per year. Class of 2027 availability filling now. Every session begins with a free in-person consultation where the experience is designed around your senior's personality, ideas, and style. Sessions up to 5 hours across multiple iconic locations with unlimited outfit changes. Master Photographer Ty Swartz holds the PPA Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees and is a Certified Professional Photographer, credentials held by fewer than 2 percent of photographers nationally. 1,000+ seniors photographed. 5-star Google rating. Heirloom-quality fine art prints, wall portraits, and hand-bound albums presented in person during your consultation. $300 session fee. Class of 2027 Sibling Bonus available year-round starting August 1, 2026. Book a senior session and receive a complimentary fine art portrait session for younger siblings (Kindergarten through Class of 2028 or later).
There is a version of senior portraits where every senior at every school looks exactly the same: fifteen minutes, a generic backdrop, a generalist who shoots families, weddings, headshots, and everything else. Same drawer where the prints end up. Then there is this.
Ready to see what this could look like for your senior?
Every senior portrait experience starts with a free in-person consultation. No pressure, no obligation, a conversation about your senior, the locations, and the vision.
Schedule Your Free ConsultationPhotographed across the locations that actually matter to them.
Every Swartz Portraits experience begins with a free in-person consultation, a conversation where we walk through our services, view the heirloom products in person, and design your senior's session around their personality, ideas, and style. Up to five hours of portraiture. Multiple locations across Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, and the broader Houston metro. Unlimited outfit changes. The locations they actually love, photographed the way they actually look.
Military families: we build flexibility into every schedule. Apply early and we will work around TDY, deployment, and PCS timelines, not the other way around.
Where We Photograph in Spring & The Woodlands
Free In-Person Consultation
Ty meets with your family in person to walk through services, present the heirloom products, and design your senior's experience around their personality, ideas, and style.
Mon to Fri · Two evenings · Complimentary
Plan the Day
Choose the date, time, locations, and outfits. We coordinate everything, including flexible scheduling for military families.
5 to 10 minutes
The Portrait Session
Up to 5 hours of fine art portraiture across multiple locations. Unlimited outfit changes. This is your senior's day.
Up to 5 hours
The Reveal
7 to 10 days later, your family is invited to view the professionally edited portraits and choose the favorites for your final collection.
7 to 10 days after session
Digital Delivery
Selected images are delivered instantly to your private gallery for sharing: graduation announcements, social media, college applications.
Instant upon order
Heirloom Prints Arrive
Museum-quality fine art prints, handcrafted to last generations, delivered to your home. The portrait that hangs above the fireplace.
4 to 5 weeks
Imperial Oaks · The Falls · Benders Landing · Harmony · Springwoods Village · Woodson's Reserve
For Spring 77386 families along the corridor between Houston and the Piney Woods, where master-planned Texas meets East Texas forest interior. The Imperial Oaks executive families. The ExxonMobil corporate corridor in Springwoods Village. The multi-generational Texans across The Falls and Woodson's Reserve who recognize the difference between a fifteen-minute backdrop and a five-hour fine art session.
Sessions photograph across Spring's signature settings: the Victorian-era brick streets of Old Town Spring, the bald-cypress canopy at Mercer Botanic Gardens, and the sandy creek banks of Pundt Park along the Spring Creek Greenway. Your senior's Spring. Their story. Told in fine art.
Conroe ISD & Klein ISD Schools Served
Grand Oaks · Oak Ridge · The Woodlands HS · College Park · Conroe HS · Caney Creek · Klein Oak · Klein Cain · Klein Forest · Klein Collins · Klein
Carlton Woods · Sterling Ridge · Indian Springs · Alden Bridge · Cochran's Crossing · Hughes Landing
For The Woodlands' legacy households across Carlton Woods, Indian Springs, and Sterling Ridge, where senior portraits are framed alongside christenings, weddings, and the wall of photographs that defines a home. The energy executives, the Texas Medical Center physicians, the Conroe ISD families who understand that Master Photographer credentials mean something.
Sessions photograph across The Woodlands' signature settings: the modern architecture of The Woodlands Waterway and Hughes Landing, the European-inspired streets at Market Street, the dramatic geometry of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, and the wooded paths through Northshore Park and Rob Fleming Park.
Conroe ISD & Premier Private Schools
The Woodlands HS · College Park · Oak Ridge · Grand Oaks · The John Cooper School · The Woodlands Christian Academy · Concordia Lutheran
Grand Central Park · April Sound · Bentwater · Lake Conroe waterfront
For Conroe ISD families and Lake Conroe waterfront households who recognize the milestone for what it is. The Grand Central Park executives. The Bentwater and April Sound retirees who have watched a grandchild grow into a senior. The Conroe High School and Caney Creek families looking for something the yearbook photographer will never deliver.
Sessions photograph across Conroe's signature settings: the Lake Conroe waterfront at sunset, the brick storefronts of historic downtown Conroe, the open Texas pine of Sam Houston National Forest, and the lakeside retreats your senior actually grew up around.
Conroe ISD & Tomball ISD Schools Served
Conroe HS · Caney Creek · Oak Ridge · Grand Oaks · The Woodlands HS · Tomball HS · Tomball Memorial · Magnolia HS · Magnolia West
Memorial · Hunters Creek · Piney Point · River Oaks · West U · Bellaire · Tanglewood
For the Memorial Villages, River Oaks, West U, Bellaire, and Tanglewood families who already know what discerning means. The Texas Medical Center physicians, the energy executives, the legacy Houston households who have been making the right decisions for three generations and recognize this as one of them.
Sessions photograph across Houston's signature settings: the Buffalo Bayou Park skyline views, the Japanese Garden in Hermann Park, the editorial architecture of downtown rooftops, and the cinematic sunrise on the Galveston coast.
Premier Private & Inner Loop Schools
St. John's School · Kinkaid · Memorial HS · Stratford · Bellaire HS · Lamar HS · St. Agnes Academy · Strake Jesuit · The Awty International School · Houston Christian
Every senior is photographed for who they actually are. Not who the backdrop pretends they are.
Files live on a hard drive. Heirlooms live above a fireplace. Every Swartz Portraits collection is presented in person and printed by GraphiStudio in Italy, the same atelier trusted by master photographers across Europe and North America.
Layflat archival pages, museum-grade binding, presented in person at your reveal. The album that holds the entire session, designed to be opened and reopened across decades.
The signature wall portrait, suspended within a precision-crafted frame. Substantial, museum-finished, and hung above the fireplace for the next forty years. The portrait families come back to.
Italian-finished archival panel, ready to display unframed. Modern, gallery-clean, and built to anchor a hallway, a stairwell, or a study.
Master-finished metal, brilliant acrylic facemount, gallery-wrapped canvas. The right surface for the right portrait, selected together at your reveal session.
Suspended within a luminous block of crystal-clear acrylic. A piece that is as much sculpture as photograph, often chosen for the desk that holds the things that matter.
Hand-finished archival presentation box. The collection of the favorites from your session, ready to be framed individually, gifted, or kept exactly as delivered.
Acid-free archival matting, presented in conservation-quality mats ready for framing. The traditional standard, executed at the highest level.
A single Italian frame holding the arc of a senior session, eight to nine portraits curated together. The complete story, on a single wall.
Designed With You at Your RevealEvery collection is curated together at your in-person reveal session. We design the wall portrait, select the album spread, and choose the finishes that fit your home. Pricing is presented in person, never by email. Final delivery: 4 to 5 weeks after ordering.
Sixty seconds inside the Swartz Portraits experience.
39 verified five-star reviews. Hover any portrait to read more.
Matthew was nervous about senior portraits. Five hours later he was running the session. The reveal made all of us cry.
Kat Cox
Matthew, Class of 2025
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Ty does not photograph seniors. He directs them. Tristan got a portrait that looks like he is on the cover of a magazine.
Stephen Banks
Tristan, Class of 2026
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Bella has those photos in a frame in her dorm room now. We have the wall portrait above the fireplace. Worth every penny, twice over.
Jennifer Burkhart
Bella, Class of 2025
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We moved to Spring two years ago and did not know who to trust. Found Ty through a neighbor. Best decision we have made for Angie's senior year.
Darice Voight
Angie, Class of 2026 · Recently relocated
Read on Google ›Every name on this page is a senior who almost did not apply.
One hundred seniors per year. The conversation costs nothing.
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"There is a difference between a photo of a senior and a portrait of who they are. After forty years, I know the difference. Every session is built around finding it."
Ty Swartz holds the Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees from the Professional Photographers of America. He is a Certified Professional Photographer, internationally ranked senior portrait photographer, and a retired United States Navy veteran. Forty-plus years of professional practice. Over 1,000 seniors photographed.
He moved Swartz Portraits to Spring, Texas to bring the application-only fine art experience to families across The Woodlands, Conroe, the greater Houston metro, and the Texas coast. The credentials traveled. The standard did not change.
The Senior Ambassador Program is a small, application-only group of Class of 2027 seniors selected each year to represent Swartz Portraits across editorial and social campaigns. Ambassadors receive an extended editorial-style session, custom social-ready images, and meaningful recognition across the brand.
This is not a generic "model program." Ambassadors are chosen for personality, presence, and fit with the editorial direction of the year. Spots are limited and acceptance is by application only.
Class of 2027 senior families who book a Swartz Portraits senior session receive a complimentary fine art portrait session for younger siblings, fully included at no additional cost.
Begins August 1, 2026
No dates to chase. No code to remember. Book any senior session and the sibling session is yours.
Begin with a complimentary Sibling Bonus consultation
Schedule a Sibling Bonus Consultation$300 · Paid at booking
When a Swartz Portraits family introduces another family and that senior books a session, the referring family receives a 24 by 24 floating-frame fine art portrait, handcrafted by GraphiStudio in Italy. No limit on referrals. The wall fills itself.
Your past clients are our most powerful advocates. We thank them in heirlooms.
How to show up as exactly yourself. A 28-page editorial guide built for Class of 2027 seniors and parents preparing for a Swartz Portraits session. Outfits, accessories, hair, location pairing, what to bring, what to skip.
Written by Master Photographer Ty Swartz. Free. No purchase required.
Ty Swartz of Swartz Portraits, based in Spring, Texas, holds the Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees from the Professional Photographers of America and is a Certified Professional Photographer. Credentials held by fewer than 2 percent of photographers nationally. Ty has photographed over 1,000 seniors in 40+ years of practice. Sessions are limited to 100 seniors per year.
The Swartz Portraits session fee is $300, which secures your senior date. Every senior portrait experience begins with a free in-person consultation, a conversation about your senior, the locations, and the vision. Collection investment varies based on the wall portraits, prints, and albums you choose for your home, and is presented in person at your reveal session.
Class of 2027 senior families who book a Swartz Portraits senior session receive a complimentary fine art portrait session for younger siblings, fully included at no additional cost. Siblings can be Kindergarten through Class of 2028 or later. The Sibling Bonus is a year-round offer beginning August 1, 2026. No code needed, the bonus is automatically included with your senior session booking.
Master of Photography degree (PPA), Photographic Craftsman degree (PPA), and Certified Professional Photographer (CPP). Combined credentials held by fewer than 2 percent of photographers nationally. Ty is also a retired United States Navy veteran with 40+ years of professional photography practice and 1,000+ seniors photographed.
Conroe ISD, Klein ISD, Tomball ISD, Magnolia ISD, Spring ISD, Cy-Fair ISD, plus premier privates including The Woodlands Christian Academy, The John Cooper School, Concordia Lutheran, Frassati Catholic, Houston Christian, Second Baptist School, St. John's School, Kinkaid, Strake Jesuit, and St. Agnes Academy. We also photograph homeschool seniors, gap-year students, and seniors visiting from out of state.
Old Town Spring, Mercer Botanic Gardens, Pundt Park and Spring Creek Greenway, Jesse H. Jones Park, and the bald cypress canopies along Spring Creek. For The Woodlands, Hughes Landing, Market Street, the Waterway, Northshore Park, and Rob Fleming Park. For Conroe, the Lake Conroe waterfront, Grand Central Park, and Sam Houston National Forest. Coastal sessions photograph at Galveston Beach and Corpus Christi.
Free in-person consultations are scheduled Monday through Friday, two appointments per evening (6pm to 7pm and 8pm to 9pm), approximately 60 minutes each. Consultations are conducted in person at your home or by appointment. Schedule via the consultation booking page or call 832-305-5426.
Up to 5 hours across multiple Texas locations with unlimited outfit changes. Sessions are scheduled Tuesday through Friday at 1pm or Saturday and Sunday at 9am or 2pm. The five hours include travel between locations, outfit changes, and the actual portraiture. Most families say it goes by faster than they expected.
Yes. When a current Swartz Portraits family introduces another family and that senior books a session, the referring family receives a 24 by 24 floating-frame fine art portrait, handcrafted by GraphiStudio in Italy. There is no limit on referrals. The wall fills itself.
After 40 years and 1,000+ seniors, Ty has photographed every version of camera-shy. By hour two, something shifts. By hour five, families are seeing a version of their senior they did not know existed. The five-hour session length is part of why this works; there is no rush, no pressure, no posing into someone they are not.
Selected digital images are delivered instantly to your private gallery after your reveal session, ready for graduation announcements, social media, and college applications. The full collection structure is presented in person at your reveal. Heirloom GraphiStudio prints and albums are delivered 4 to 5 weeks after ordering.
Spring sessions: book by January for March through May availability. Fall sessions: book by June for September through November. The Class of 2027 calendar is filling now. Spots are released in the order applications are received, with limited capacity at 100 seniors per year.
Yes. Ty is a retired U.S. Navy veteran and we build flexibility into every schedule for active-duty families. Apply early and we will work around TDY, deployment, and PCS timelines, not the other way around.
Every Swartz Portraits experience starts with a free in-person consultation. Bring your senior, bring your questions. Ty walks you through the experience, the locations, and the heirloom collections. No pressure, no obligation. Just a conversation about what is possible.
Free Consultations · Mon to Fri · 6pm or 8pm
