Happy Monday!  It’s the second Monday of the month, and this month’s SOAR! Photography Exercise is going to push your comfort zone EVEN MORE!!  We are taking our cameras and hitting the streets! A couple weeks ago, Ariane Hunter, emailed me with a FABULOUS idea!  For those of you who don’t know Ariane, she applied [...]

Happy First Monday of the Month – It’s time for our monthly business coaching exercise from Karen Buckley at The Wisdom Connection. It’s simple but powerful. Do it! And share your results on the SOARORITY! Forum for lots of encouragement. To see the other business coaching exercises, click here. Summer… Oh how the meaning of [...]

Five Steps to Using Shutter Speed for Creative Photos in the Snow!

Pregnancy Photo-Recipe in the Midst of Real Life!

On Monday, I posted the August Photography Assignment for our SOAR! ladies!  It was all about using Textures to enhance Senior Portrait shoots.  Have you checked out the results from our three SOAR! Recipients?!  They are amazing!  And to my surprise, they ALL ended up working with guys!  Lots of photographers feel like working with [...]

How to Capture Blur Intentionally

Carey Schumacher, owner of Barefoot Memories, is our guest photographer today! She’s an AMAZING everything – mom, photographer, friend. You can read more about her from her interview a few months ago. Thank you Carey so much for stepping in with some on-the-spot coaching! __________________________________________ There I was on the morning of Father’s Day, waiting [...]

We had the most AMAZING Memorial Day weekend with our CONFIDENCE Workshop in NY!  I can’t wait to post up some Behind the Scene photos for you!  But first, I still need to show you Part 3 from the Seattle CONFIDENCE Workshop! Here are some QUICK FRESH PHOTO TIPS to working with families! I like [...]

Are you ready for Part 2?!!  Happy Monday Friends! Let’s start the week off with one of my favorite populations to photograph!  High School Seniors!  But let’s start from the beginning of Day 2 of the CONFIDENCE Photography Workshop! We started the day with demystifying the whole concept of metering.  For some reason, the photography [...]

Today is the second Monday of the month which means there is a NEW Photography Exercise at the SOAR! blog this morning!  Yeah!! I’m teaching on the concept of Less is More, and how to apply this to our images.  I’m not talking about cropping your images on the computer.  That works in the beginning, [...]