Seriously, you want to give up? After all of that hard work? We all have feelings of “down in the dumps.” It’s perfectly normal and natural. You’re in the doldrums. You cannot get your booty out of no-mans land and your brain fog is as thick as the pea soup your grandma shoved down your throat […]

That dreaded client question: “Hello? Do you sell the digital files?” Everybody wants the digitals. But what most clients don’t realize is how un-valuable digitals really are. But clients buy what they KNOW. And digitals are what they know. So that’s what they THINK they want. But when you flip the switch and show them […]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that this business is a roller coaster of clients. Some months you have so many sessions your head is lying off its axis and then, other months you can hear the crickets for lack of the phone ringing. The stress of slow times can be […]

So, I can hear you now. Julia, “What is the sibling honeymoon?” In newborn photography, we refer to the sibling honeymoon as that time period when the older first-born child is still ‘in-love’ with their new brother or sister – aka the newborn. But sometimes that comes to an end all too quickly and you […]

One of the hardest transitions is moving from your full-time corporate job, to full-time photographer. You’ve been half-timing it for a while and getting supplementary income, but the corporate job is killing you and you want out—to make a living doing what you love. How do you do it and still make the same income […]

As a visual artist and creative in business, one of the best ways we kill time is by checking out other people’s art, right? I’m an Instagram junkie. What an amazing place to get visual stimuli! With so many people logging in and signing up to be an insta-famous fauxtographer, how do you find accounts […]