A few weeks ago, my husband and I took our family to a local Fall Festival. What started out as a typical fun day with our family very quickly took shape as a huge lesson for me. As we strolled along with our shaved ice, corndogs and handfuls of tickets for all kinds of rickety…
Photography is art, like any painting or sculpture. Our photography is an expression of who we are. It is an intimate look into our vision & our emotions. With that understanding, it really isn’t any wonder that many of us feel insecure about putting our creations out there for the world to see. It’s a…
It can happen to all of us. Questioning what we do, whether or not this is the career for us, whether we are good enough, or even if we want to continue pursuing our photography career. It doesn’t help that in photography, the seasons of work seem to come and go… we can be riddled…
I used to wait to pick up my camera until I wanted to shoot, or until I had something to shoot, or until I had time. Let’s face it: there are days I just don’t want to pick up my camera. And some days, the desire is there, but the time is not. And then…
We don’t talk about it much, but we’ve all been there: the doubt, the discouragement, the hidden, quiet thoughts rooted in the fear that we are not good enough. “Am I good enough to be a photographer?” “Do I have what it takes to be successful?” “Will I ever be as good as _____?” You…
In life you really have no idea where you might end up. It’s much the same in business too. Never in a million years would I have expected to have been on a plane to Nashville to collaborate with some of my biggest idols in the photography community. As you can imagine, when I got…
How is it even possible to survive as a photographer these days? We are all among a massive sea of photographers, all vying for the same customers. Despite photography being so subjective, and in many ways an “art”, the commoditization of the “art” is continuing at an alarming pace. Whose to blame for this? Technology. …it…