I’ve had the privilege of working with Ash of Ashley Peterson Photography before. I did her initial branding and ProPhoto site a few years ago so when she came to me wanting to get a brand new Showit5 site and with a little brand sprucing up I was totally on board! I don’t typically do […]

I have been thinking of doing this for a long time and now the day has come! I am now offering brand coaching sessions for small creative businesses. This is a service I currently do with all of my full branding clients as part of their all inclusive branding package,  but I now will work […]

In preparing to work with Christina Carroll Photography this August I recently had her branding session over Skype. We discussed many things as I do with all my full branding clients including her ideal client and niche. These two things are KEY y’all in creating a solid visual brand. How can you sell to someone […]

This past March I participated in a beautiful soft blue and green styled shoot for one of my former clients, The Cannons Photography. Courtney wanted to do a very “homey” shoot using a soft romantic color palette and she created a wall with frame art to look as if the couple was hanging out at […]

HAPPY HAPPY launch today to Birds of a Feather Photography! I have been working with the amazing dynamic duo and mother/daughter team for a few months now and I must say things turned out beautifully. Maggie and Betty have been doing wedding photography for several years now. Betty, the mama, took many, many pictures of her kids when […]

One of the first things I do with all my full branding clients is to establish their industry niche. What is that? Entrepreneur.com defines a niche as: A portion of a market that you’ve identified as having some special characteristic and that’s worth marketing to . Businessdictionary.com defines it as: A small but profitable segment of […]

You guys. I am SO EXCITED to share with you the new and improved All Grand Events. I have been working with Jamie and Emily for about a month to make all of this prettiness happen!!! Emily bought All Grand Events years ago and desperately wanted to update its look as it was dated and not […]

We are about a month out from the launch of the new Joy Michelle Photography, an Annapolis fine art wedding photography business, and I am SO EXCITED. Her brand is BEAUTIFUL and will be my crown jewel honestly. It uses perfect shades of pink and is so delicate and beautiful I can hardly stand it. I […]

Jessica Horton of JJ Horton Photography reached out to me after finding me via The Rising Tide Society to participate in nautical inspired shoot at The Mayton Inn in Cary, North Carolina. The shoot sounded so dreamy so of course I said yes! Jessica wanted a light and airy feel with soft florals and she […]

Have you ever wondered how an image gets cropped to be in a perfect circle? Or even better how an image gets cropped in the shape of some really odd shape like an animal? Most likely the graphic was made in Photoshop using a clipping mask. “A clipping mask is a group of layers to […]