This past month I offered a special on my social media platforms for $100 mini-portrait sessions. I figured I would get two or three people to sign up. In reality, I had way more and I was blown away by the interest. Turns out, people love quality photos of themselves. Who wouldn’t? We live in…
Mentally, it’s hard being a creative that makes a living off of their art and runs a business based around it. While I consider myself VERY fortunate to be able to create art through photography for a living, it does get difficult separating business and fun sometimes. It also makes it hard to gain inspiration…
Hi blog. It’s been awhile. Four months to be exact. I’m pretty sure that’s the longest I’ve ever gone without blogging. It’s not because of lack of content but because I’ve been crazy busy. Lots of things…
Recently, I went on a photo assignment for The Weather Channel where I covered Tropical Storm Hermine (not to be confused with Hermione from Harry Potter) hitting the shores of Norfolk, Va and Virginia Beach, Va. There wasn’t much “destruction” but there was a lot of flooding. Most of my visuals were of reflective pools, rivers…
Today marks the FOURTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY of this here little blog. I’ve documented my life for the past four years through photography and thoughts on my personal life, my work life, my travel life and everything in-between. You have seen me go through internships, my undergraduate degree, my graduate degree and now, my *adult life*.…
Yesterday I posted a Facebook status that went something a long the lines of this…. Shortly after posting, my inbox filled up with people asking me how to use LinkedIn as well as asking questions about the benefits I’ve gotten from using it. Most people seemed to not know how to use it, thought it was…
I’m sure many of you have seen that viral story about Essena O’Neill, the courageous Instagram model from Australia who took a stand against the illusion of perfection so many of us see on social media. At 18-years-old O’Neill had amassed close to a million followers across her social media platforms: 580k on Instagram, 260k…
I’ve been nominated for Best Photo Blog in the Maryland Outstanding Blog Awards for the third year! Thank you, thank you, thank you to whoever nominated me. I work really hard on this baby blog here so it means a lot that people think it’s something worthy of an award. I am in the BEST…
My career as a photographer has taken me a lot of places. I’m a photojournalist now and have been for several years but before that I was a studio photographer at two different companies, a much different type of work flow than what I do now. I get asked a lot about how to get into…
Here’s something I’ve noticed among many of my journalist friends: For people who spend their days interacting with the public, we are a pretty lonely bunch. The older you get, the harder it is to maintain relationships (both romantic and friend) because of work and school. Being a journalist makes that 100x more difficult due…
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