I’m so excited to be releasing another product for busy photographers! As I mentioned with my last texture set – most of the time I like clean simple images, but sometimes I want to add a little something extra to an image to give it a totally different feel. And now I’m adding another texture …
A Very Happy Birthday to My Amazing Mom
Today is the birthday of an amazing woman. Growing up my mom and I didn’t always see eye-to-eye. But I’m so incredibly thankful that I can honestly say she is one of my closest friends. I think I had to grow up a little bit and realize where she was coming from to truly understand …
Ray’s Brand Chilli | Decatur, IL | Commercial Photographer
A few weeks ago, my good friends, Mike Carr and Josh Hendricks of Hendricks & Carr Marketing gave me a call and asked me if I’d be available to help them with a commercial shoot for Ray’s Brand Chilli. Of course I said YES! I’m very familiar with Ray’s Chilli and the owner, Jay, from …
Pieces of Me: Tolkien Love
So yes, if you’ve been a reader of my blog for a while now – you may have started to realize I have several things I really LOVE! But this by far is my biggest! For quite a long while now, I have been a HUGE Tolkien fan. Before they had the new movies from …
Elayna’s Birthday Session | Taylorville, IL | Family Photographer
I’m super excited to share this beautiful little girl’s birthday session with you today! I was thrilled when her mama called me to schedule her birthday session. I’ve been lucky enough to take this beauty’s birthday photos every year since she was one and I truly cannot believe how big she’s gotten! She’s got such …
Basic Tips on How to Price Your Photography
From time to time – I write articles for ezinearticles.com about business, marketing, and photography and I always try and share these helpful tidbits here too. So if you’re a new photographer needing help figuring out the pricing side of your business – today’s entry is PERFECT for you! One of the toughest things as …
Decatur Christian School Auction | Green Tree Media Donation
You may have noticed that every year we are asked and choose to donate to a select few auctions. I always select the places that feel a real connection with to donate one of our gift baskets. So when I was asked to offer something for the Decatur Christian School Dinner Auction – I was …
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Valentine’s Day is a holiday I very much love. Not for candies or chocolates or flowers or jewelry. Valentine’s Day is special to me because it was the day Ryan asked me to be his. I remember the day clearly – rushing home that night from my friend, Erin’s house to …
New Backdrop Fun
I feel like as a photographer, there is always something more you could use to really have fun with your work. And it seems there is a never ending plethora of props, backdrops, actions, templates and gear to keep any photographer constantly finding something new and exciting. I am no different in that regard. I’d …
Photography Product: Basic Album Template
I’m so excited to share this new product with all of you today! One of my absolute favorite products I offer my clients are lay flat albums. I love the beautiful way I can display a large portion of images into one clean well designed product. And my clients love them too! So I thought …