Have you always dreamed of coming to a CONFIDENCE Workshop, but don’t yet have the budget for it?  Are you a beginner when it comes to using your camera, but have a BIG heart for taking photos?  Do you feel like you keep hitting a mental road block with your photos, and just wish you [...]

The sun is out, and summer is in full gear!  So how do we deal with the bright sun?  Here is a Photo-Recipe that I did for you and our SOAR! gals.  I’ve got five easy steps to improve your outdoor photos when bright sun is breathing down your neck.  And yep, it’s the second [...]

Genie here.  I’ve got great news!  When Me Ra walked into her dad’s hospital room yesterday morning, he was making business calls as if he was back in his office!  Me Ra also got to take her dad outside for the first time in 14 days.  Thank you again for all your prayers and support.  [...]

by Tracey Clark, guest photographer and founder of Shutter Sisters The more I open my eyes to the visual language of the world, the more I discover. More peace, more compassion, more kindness, more togetherness, more beauty, more love. I have considered myself “a photographer” (both in hobby and in career) for nearly 20 years. [...]

Summer is a GREAT time to pull out your camera and try some new Photo Tips and Photo Exercises!  How about putting your hand to Shooting Silhouettes!  But be prepared to get comfortable with dark images rather than bright ones. If you love taking photos, you may have been told at some point to look [...]

We had the most AMAZING Memorial Day weekend with our CONFIDENCE Workshop in NY!  I can’t wait to post up some Behind the Scene photos for you!  But first, I still need to show you Part 3 from the Seattle CONFIDENCE Workshop! Here are some QUICK FRESH PHOTO TIPS to working with families! I like [...]

Are you ready for Part 2?!!  Happy Monday Friends! Let’s start the week off with one of my favorite populations to photograph!  High School Seniors!  But let’s start from the beginning of Day 2 of the CONFIDENCE Photography Workshop! We started the day with demystifying the whole concept of metering.  For some reason, the photography [...]

Today is the second Monday of the month which means there is a NEW Photography Exercise at the SOAR! blog this morning!  Yeah!! I’m teaching on the concept of Less is More, and how to apply this to our images.  I’m not talking about cropping your images on the computer.  That works in the beginning, [...]

Kari of MamaBloo has a new Photo Tale for April!  I don’t know about you, but I LOVE her Photo Tales!  Today, she’s talking about the realities of lighting in her home.  I couldn’t help but think that the timing of this Photo Tale was great with two earlier posts I wrote this month on [...]

I want to introduce you to a very special lady.  Her name is Sreyown Sun.  She lives at the orphanage in Cambodia and was our only female student when Brian and I did a photography workshop/photo shoot around the city. Sreyown is not a mother from having her own children.  But she is an amazing [...]