portrait photography
2025 is slated to be a busy year for me. Heading toward 50+ equine show dates, weddings, and regular shoots scheduled with more still rolling in. Which is fantastic but challenging as some events overlap, and I will still have weather cancellations and such to deal with making this a very busy season.
Read MorePhotography starts out for many as a passion, something they love that draws others attention who then ask them to take photos of them or their family and helps start planting the seeds of becoming a professional photographer. Starting a photography business can be a daunting task but there are tools and methods that can help make that process easier for you.
Read MoreAs a professional equine photographer my gear is less expansive on an event day than my gear choices for shooting a wedding. A lot boils down to just how vastly these two events differ and how my proceeds time wise. Weddings move at a different pace and have a lot more to be covered than most equine events that tend to have slow periods— tractor man I am looking at you.
Read MoreWedding photography is a very popular genre for photographers to specialize in. At some point for those who do not specialize in the genre we all end up trying it out anyways. However regardless of what genre a photographer practices in primarily we all field questions on if we are available for weddings, pricing, and what it would look like to for us to take on a wedding photography contract.
Read MoreToward the end of 2024 my gallery host started with updates that would, will, and do affect my clients. These changes come with law changes for things that are no longer escapable to creative businesses. Yes those things are pretty much taxes— photography sold online is no longer a grey area in the sales tax landscape.
Read MoreI have been a photographer for 14 years and my photographer title has changed more times than I care to count. Photography is an evolution of skill and for many of us, it is our creative outlet. What we win prizes for shooting may not be what we shoot day to day to make a living, and sometimes after shooting one thing for years we have to make a change to push ourselves and our skills to a new level.
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