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The end of a chapter

I don’t want to be overly sentimental or anything, but today is my last day at my corporate job. When I started here almost four years ago I was freshly laid off from a creative job that I loved but had gotten burned out on. I thought to myself that a corporate job was safe […]

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Book Review – Worth every penny + The glass castle

I finally bought a kindle just a couple of weeks ago, and since then my love for reading has come back in full force! One of my goals is to read more business books, so the first book I picked up was Sarah Petty’s Worth Every Penny. I had seen it recommended by Justin and Mary […]

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For photographers: figuring out your brand

Let me just preface this by saying I’m nowhere near an expert on branding. I’m not even close! But I do understand how overwhelming it can be to try and figure out a way to express your personality in a visual way. When I first started trying to decide what I wanted this blog to […]

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Featured!

This past Friday, Maddie and John’s cooking themed engagement session was featured on United With Love! In other news, I finally sent my first roll of film to be developed. It was a cheapo roll that I got with the camera so I didn’t feel like it deserved Indie Film Lab or RPL treatment. I’m […]

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tips for balancing your day job and a photography business

Like everything else in life, working a full time job and trying to start a photography business is a delicate balancing act. If you aren’t mindful of your time and priorities, things very quickly go from manageable to straight up cray. I am heading into my last week of doing this tightrope act, but I […]

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The worst case scenario

I feel like I’m at a point in my life where not only are lots of things changing, but there are also lots of difficult choices to be made. Decisions that may or may not affect where I end up 20-30 years from now! Being a constant worrier and the queen of freaking out has […]