Self Love
How to prepare for a professional portrait session
Over my many years of providing dream portrait sessions to my clients, I’ve been witness to some amazingly successful portrait sessions and some, well, less than amazing sessions. What is the key difference between a successful and unsuccessful shoot? The successful clients spent time PREPARING for their sessions, and the unsuccessful ones, showed up unprepared.…
Read MoreThe mission of the Senior Empowerment Collective: Ithaca, NY
The mission of the Senior Empowerment Collective is to birth the next generation of fearless community leaders who are NOT afraid of their own greatness. When the world tells a teenager that their dreams are too big, or that their goals are unattainable, or that they need to “be more conservative, rational, or reasonable” I’m…
Read MoreIthaca, NY Senior Portrait Photographer tells about her own senior portrait experience.
Moment of truth time… I HATED having my senior portraits taken!!! Back in 1997, there was only two options in my small hometown, you either paid thousands of dollars to one photographer that only worked in a studio, or just did the photos from the staff photographer who showed up for “picture day”~ well we…
Read MoreLocal teens challenge racism with an epic performance of Hairspray: Ithaca, NY, event photography
Backstory: When local high school junior Emma Ellis, who is caucasian, was cast as Esmerelda for the school play, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, student activists from Students United rallied together to create a protest letter to the schools administration. They protested the plays lack of diversity, and felt that the use of cultural appropriation…
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