I have the best customer service tip for you. It’s going to seem pretty basic but in the past few months I have discovered that it is something that is truly lacking in many businesses. This hot tip? Ready for it?! Reply to your clients. I am sure that you are all thinking, “But I […]
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So You Want to Work for a Photographer
Awww, photo intern season! It’s that sweet time of the year where if you are like me, you start getting a lot of emails from College and University students wanting to do their required internship with you so that they can then graduate and become a real-life professional photographer come April. 🙂 It’s all […]
Random Act of Kindness #RAK
Let me tell you a story about something that happened to me recently. A few weeks ago, I had an editorial shoot at my studio for a magazine. I was photographing a woman who has a degree in nutrition and works for an organisation that deals with cancer. The image for the magazine’s story was […]
Taking Control. You’re the Boss.
This has been quite the week. Highs. Lows. Rushing around and then sitting around, waiting. And I am just speaking about my work-life. I have had some great and not-so-great interactions with potential clients and I have had some awesome conversations with current clients. It’s really easy when running your own business to get caught […]
Wedding planner? CHECK!
I have a newsflash for everyone: your time is not any more important than anyone else’s. Â You’re busy? Guess what? I’m busy. So is my studio-mate Jim. So is my Moms and even my eight year old niece. You feel like you are juggling a thousand things and doing it all with a lack of […]
Work for free? No, thanks.
This is my little ditty about working for free. Basically I am pretty much 100% against it and I will tell you why. I have been running my own business full-time for eleven years now so this opinion is based on my experience with clients – and those that end up becoming non-clients, as […]
What is in my Camera Bag
I have been photographing professionally since 2003. Before I start talking about what equipment I shoot with, let’s get it out there that I photograph with Canon. I hate the Nikon versus Canon debates that happen on a daily basis. I really do not care what brand you shoot with, as long as you are […]
A Little Lesson in Listening
Last night I met a guy in a bar. (Don’t worry, Josh was there, it wasn’t that kind of meeting.) Often when I meet people, I ask them what they do. I remember watching the portrait photographer Sue Bryce speak on Creative Live last year and she said that upon meeting someone, you can tell […]
That Feeling of Defeat
Yesterday Canada won Gold in the Women’s Hockey at the Sochi Olympics. It was a fantastic game. The ladies played hard and in the last few minutes of regulation, we pulled through enough to tie up the game and take it to overtime. Jian half-jokingly tweeted that there is likely already a film in production about […]