Branding Mindset Disease

How To Prepare For A Portrait/Branding Shoot

Photography is the art of producing meaningful images one shot at a time. With considerable amounts of labor necessary for producing a successful portrait shoot, knowing how to prepare for one can save time, energy and money. Bright lights, ...

Motivating An Audience Through Storytelling

Motivating An Audience Throughout Storytelling  Content… It's what your customer is looking for and not many are doing. Let me ask you just a few questions.Was your 2018 good? Did you check off all your business ...

A New Beginning

A New Beginning  I can't believe it's been 365 days! I'm so grateful for the last 365 days. So many things took place and I am so curious about what took place behind the scene to lead me where I am now.  My heart changed. My ...

What Is Branding?

WHAT IS BRANDING?A person, product, service or company is a brand.  To illustrate the definition of a brand and the role it occupies in defining branding, we will use the example of water:Water is a free resource that every human being ...

My Process For Bringing Out Someones True Essence In A Headshot

What is your idea of perfect happiness? For most of my career, my answer to this question is to bring out someone's TRUE essence. This makes a picture a portrait and portraits have emotions, they tell a story. I don't just click to take a ...

The Sensual Photographer Of Today (vs Yesterday)

The master of cinema like Hitchcock, Cameron, Scorsese just to name a few had away to take suspense, love, sex and bring this audience to an extraordinary story. The unforgettable scene that is burned into our memories. When we hear ...

What Is Your Worth

What Is Your Worth? I have to ask. I get over a hundred emails and phone calls a year from women wanting to book a session. When we talk about the details of the client session I start to hear a pause. I have learned over the years to share ...

Self-Esteem

Protesting Self-Esteem... Never! The word Self Esteem I use to dodge this word. I actually hated this word because of how it made me feel. I must have been about 8 years old when I first heard the word and it was from my teacher Mr. ...

I Have Wanted To Quite A Thousand Times

I Have Wanted To Quite A Thousand Times The Power Of A Portrait Stopped Me Have you ever lost someone? Someone you loved deeply? Years later when you come across their photo you are instantly taken back to a moment in time with them. ...

I Am A Masterpiece

I Am A Masterpiece What is your morning routine? Hitting the snooze button a half dozen times?Does the blanket of stress hit you? Does your to-do list run your day?There is too much negative running around you. You must OWN your morning to ...

What if we truly understood

I met Kendra back in 2000. The first year we got to know each other and before long I was renting her second level of her home. I lived there for about a year and when I purchased my first home in Portland Kendra did the Uhaul with me. It was ...

Symbol Of Imperfection

Symbol Of Imperfection It seems to be everywhere I go... when I say I'm a portrait photographer, I instantly hear "oh when I lose 20 pounds, I wish I had done something before I got all this gray hair... etc. You get my point. We have the ...

Be Audacious

Be AudaciousI met Vanessa during a Facebook Model call in Denver. I was holding model calls monthly for photography workshops. When Vanessa came in so did all her radiant joy and love for others. Vanessa inspired me during the test shoot and ...

A Glimmer Of Possible

A Glimmer Of Possible The storms, the shootings, the doom and gloom headlines we are pounded with daily. Our phone goes off every time something tragic happens or the never ending political drama. We are the only country that focuses on the ...

Quest

The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, ...

Breaking Down The Wall In My Own Mind

Affording the proof and breaking down the wall in my own mind. When scientist crunched the number of the probability of your exact circumstances to your exact life... the number they found proves that YOU are a 1 in 10^2,685,000. I ...

Amplify Love

This is a blog I never thought I would write. I never saw this chapter falling into our family book. Suicide does not start from the same place and I have also learned this thing robs from the masses. It's not just the family left with a ...

Nothing Ventured nothing GAINED

 This is one of the hardest things I have ever written. It's hard for me to show the cracks in my shell. But it's time I show them and the process of faith and love that helps heal them. Will I ever write this letter? One of those lines ...