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The Best Customer Service Tip

Posted on February 26, 2015March 6, 2015by Jessica

  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

Posted on January 15, 2015January 17, 2015by Jessica
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  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 […]

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Random Act of Kindness #RAK

Posted on October 29, 2014November 2, 2014by Jessica
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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 […]

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Taking Control. You’re the Boss.

Posted on October 6, 2014October 8, 2014by Jessica
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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 […]

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Wedding planner? CHECK!

Posted on September 25, 2014October 6, 2014by Jessica

I have a newsflash for everyone: your time is not any more important than anyone else’s.  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 […]

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Work for free? No, thanks.

Posted on August 19, 2014March 14, 2015by Jessica
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 […]

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It’s Okay

Posted on June 18, 2014June 23, 2014by Jessica

At 9:05pm tonight, I told myself, “It’s okay.” I may have even said it aloud as I was working at the studio by myself. I had decided that I was not going to finish all of the work that I wanted to get done. But that was okay. I was going to shut it down […]

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What is in my Camera Bag

Posted on April 30, 2014June 18, 2014by Jessica

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 […]

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A Little Lesson in Listening

Posted on February 26, 2014March 2, 2014by Jessica

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 […]

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That Feeling of Defeat

Posted on February 21, 2014February 26, 2014by Jessica

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 […]

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I am one who wears many hats and this is my sanctuary to take them off and share as I feel. I am a freelance photographer who lives in Toronto, Canada with my bartender husband Josh. Together we run Bartender Atlas and are always planning our next adventure whether it be Mexico or Australia or anywhere in between. Have fun exploring this site and please do message me should you have any comments or questions. xx jbs

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