Last month I traveled to the Rising Tide Society Leaders Retreat in St. Paul, Minnesota. RTS is an international community of creative small business owners, with chapters in big cities and small towns across the country and the world. Each month members meet with their local chapter to discuss and share information about a certain […]

I am so, so happy to finally have a new (non-embarrassing) website alive and functioning and looking gorgeous on the internet! The visual overhaul, which I started preliminary work on back in January, was an interesting process. I had to go into my head a lot and muster up some courage. A rebrand, at least […]

Thanks to my talented friend April over at Tree Climber Creations, I was interviewed by, and featured on Voyage Houston a few days ago! Other than for jobs, I’ve never been interviewed for anything before, so it was a pretty weird experience to sit down and think through “my story.” Scary as it is to […]

A few weeks ago I packed my bags, loaded up the car and made the six hour drive to New Orleans for the Rising Tide Society Leaders Retreat. For two days over 100 Tuesdays Together chapter leaders from all over the country gathered at the Pontchartrain Hotel to learn and grow. If you’re unfamiliar with […]

Last year I did something I’ve never done before. In the fall of 2016 I was feeling very strongly that I needed some direction, that I needed to reel in a bit of the chaos I was feeling about photography and business. I found I was constantly saying “I just need to focus,” or if […]

If you’ve been following along with this series, I’m rounding up my time at The Signature Atelier with this post! DAY 5 – WORKFLOWS, VERSAILLES, AND WEBSITE WOES Day five was our last full day together. We began the day with a class on efficient workflows. This is one of those subjects that any business […]

Last week you read about my first two days in Paris for The Signature Atelier and without further ado, today I’m chatting about Days 3 and 4. DAY 3 – SUNRISE AT THE EIFFEL TOWER, WATERCOLOR, AND PURPOSE We started our day early. Like, really early. If you want to photograph at the Eiffel Tower […]

It’s been four months since I returned from my photography workshop in Paris. When I thought about all the things I wanted to share about the workshop and started to actually make notes for this blog post, I realized that one post really wouldn’t do it justice…so it’s going to be three! I’ve never done […]