Happy First Monday! It’s business coaching time from Karen Buckley from The Wisdom Connection. Summer is fully here and I don’t know about you but sometimes it leads to an inner conflict. At my house it looks like: go to the beach or complete this client proposal; the garden needs pruning or the piles under [...]
Stepping out of Fear into Love: Business Coaching
Happy 4th of July! Did you have a great time?! The fog stayed out to sea and we enjoyed beautiful fireworks this year in San Francisco. It’s not the first “Monday” of the month, but it sure feels like it after such a great, three day weekend! Ready for your next Business Coaching exercise! I’m [...]
Street Portrait Challenge! Get Out of Your Comfort Zone!
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 [...]
NEW Business Coaching Exercise from Wisdom Connection! “How Your Clear Focus Equals Good Results”
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 [...]
Doll Sized Photo Studios to Check Out!
Did you create your own doll-sized studio yet? If not, here are some AWESOME examples to show you! Every lady that tried this exercise has told me that they not only had a blast with their kids, but they also learned a lot more than they bargained for! Read what Breanna from South Dakota said; [...]
Memories of Great Grandma – May’s Tribute to Mamas
This is our last May “Tribute to Mamas” post from our beautiful SOAR! Scholarship Recipients. I hope you’ve enjoyed these reflective posts on the power of motherhood. I know I have! If you are a mama, I pray that you continue to feel celebrated, honored and appreciated. Thank you Charisse, for this thoughtful, beautiful photographic [...]
I used to always be afraid of studio lighting. The big stands, umbrellas, boxes and endless plugs turned me off. But the more I got into photography, the more I realized how important it was to have an awareness of your light source and the direction of light. Whether you are shooting in studio or [...]
This I Know Is True (From One Mama to Another)
If you haven’t guessed it yet, you may notice that I’m all about moms on this website/blog. Since I believe that Mother’s Day should be Mother’s MONTH, we are giving a little extra honor and celebration to all the moms out there throughout the month of May. I asked our three SOAR! Scholarship Recipients [...]
This week’s SOAR! photography exercise is all about going wide and capturing the Setting of your story. I’m so crazy PROUD of our SOAR! Recipients! Ali put her photo assignment into a VIDEO (the outtakes videos is especially fun!)! Click Here to WATCH! Rachel’s wonderful Setting examples are HERE! And below is Charisse’s honest post [...]
Floating Bamboo Huts, Wild Elephants, Your Kids and a Camera in Southern Thailand’s Jungle: Photo Exercise on Setting!
It’s the second week of the month, and I LOVE this week because that means all you SOARing ladies get a new photography exercise! In April, we focused on Capturing Conflict, and our SOAR! Recipients rocked it with their examples! In March, we focused on Defining Details. This month, we break away from zooming in [...]









