Sessions I’m Squeezing In Before September Locks Late August is an emotionally-charged time with K-12 children heading back to school as well as parents moving their college-aged kids into dorms and apartments. Make sure to give yourself some grace and take a breath. One thing that helps with taking that breath, that pause, is knowing […]
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Senior Year Is Sneaking Up On Us If your rising senior is still deep in summer mode, we’re on the same page. There’s real time left, and I want you to enjoy it. But senior year is already showing up in the corner of your calendar: sports tryouts…back-to-school shopping…last vacations…college info nights…senior portraits…they all somehow
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Why is Golden Hour So Special for Your Family Photo Session? Golden hour, the hour before sunset, is a special time of day for taking portraits. It’s the number-one time of day requested by families, and for good reason: the backlighting it provides bathes a family in gorgeous, warm, flattering, soft light. The images usually
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Class of 2027, This One’s for You If your student just finished junior year, they’re about to step into the busiest, most emotional, and most fleeting year of high school. It’s a countdown you feel in your soul by December. Here’s what I know from photographing hundreds of seniors: they walk in nervous and leave
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Visibility By Design Hey small business owners, startup founders, and personal brand builders: marketing is hard. That’s why I teamed up with the founder of First Hill Marketing, Darrell Dennis II, this past week at Chief Financial Credit Union in downtown Rochester, MI. As part of the workshop series, participants not only received an interactive
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Show Up With Confidence This Summer A personal brand playbook for networking, community building, and building the asset library that lasts. There’s a particular kind of momentum that starts in June. Patios open. Calendars fill up. The networking events you’d been quietly skipping all winter start sounding good again. And somewhere in the middle of
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Headshots for New Grads Hey Class of 2026 graduates! You need to stand out in a crowded market—and your headshot is your first impression. But where do you go to get a headshot, and how do you know where to share it? As the latest graduates head into higher education,
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Catching Up to the Person You’ve Become Digital Asset Checklist, Part 2: A few months ago, I asked a question on this blog: Is your visual presence reflecting who you’ve become? It’s worth asking again! Q1 has come and gone, and spring is doing what spring always does: asking us to grow. The version of
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Facing Your Fears Should Start Today The Third Year Doing #100dayproject from February-June in Community For the past few of years I’ve participated in the global art project called #the100dayproject from mid-February through around Memorial Day weekend. The first year, I created unique daily reels and posted them on six different social media platforms: Facebook,
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The Journey into Senior Year: Prepare for the Ride Why now is the time to book your child’s senior photos before the season schedule fills up! A Season That Moves Faster Than You Think There is always a moment when it all starts to feel real. One day, it is just school as usual, and
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