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For Photographers I could not be happier with my new lens, a Sigma 50 1.4. I don't get very excited by gear most of the time, but this is one of the exceptions. I researched for a long time, read everything I could online, and asked lots of other photographers. … [Read more...]
When I first moved to Northern Virginia, I wrote a blog post that I wanted to network with other wedding and portrait photographers in the Washington DC area. I wasn't sure that anyone would respond. I look at the numbers of my blog readers but yet still always feel surprised when a client talks to me about something I wrote. "Wow people actually read my blog!", goes through my head. … [Read more...]
Excuse the inner geek in me for a minute. I am super excited about the new blog-site I am about to roll-out. I've been testing it for the last few days, and will be implementing it here, within the next couple days. After much searching, and thinking about what my brand is as a wedding photographer, I decided upon this new website. … [Read more...]
This post is continued from my earlier post, "How I almost didn't become a photographer". In fall of 2005, we moved to Portland, Oregon. We found a little house to sublet in East Portland, with a big yard and great neighbors that liked to bring us fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from their gardens. In 2006, we decided we were ready to buy our own home. Little did we know, as we closed on our first … [Read more...]
In Oregon, I was part of an amazing group called Click Chicks. We met once a month for meetings. Each month a different member would host the meeting, and be in charge of presenting a topic. The topics ranged from how to dress for a wedding to more technical aspects of running a photography business, such as post-processing images in Lightroom. We also had yearly retreats, and a Facebook … [Read more...]