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Let’s talk about Personal Branding photography trends happening in 2026. Every year I expect women to ask me for the same thing they asked for last year. Every year they don’t. Not because a trend told them to want something different, but because their businesses changed shape and the pictures had to catch up. Personal […]

There is a frame from this shoot where the truck sits alone on a desert road at first light, four mountain bikes standing at attention on the rack, red rock glowing on either side. It looks effortless. It looks like somebody pulled over on the way to the trailhead and I happened to be standing […]

I spent my summer rewriting a free guide, which sounds considerably more glamorous than it was. The reality involved a lot of sitting at my kitchen table with coffee that kept going cold, moving twelve items around, and occasionally saying things out loud to my laptop that I would not repeat here. The guide is […]

There is a frame from this shoot I keep coming back to. Two friends on a picnic blanket, matching corduroy caps, ponytails pulled through the ribbon ties. One of them has turned to say something and the other is mid-laugh. Not the posed kind. The real kind, the kind no photographer can direct, only catch. […]

Every few months, Mari texts me the same way. Not with a full brief. Not with a mood board or a rundown of what she needs from me this time. Just something close to “ready when you are.” A few times a year, for the past 2 years, a box arrives on my doorstep, filled […]