Is Impostor Syndrome knocking on your door? You are good enough! Don’t answer the door! Impostor Syndrome; (noun) -a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success -the inability to believe that one’s success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one’s own efforts or skills -the idea thatRead more
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Minnesota’s Best Of the Event Industry Every year Minnesota’s Meetings + Events Magazine poles the community for their choices of the ‘Best-Of’ in a variety of event catagories. I’ve never been a fan of what I call ‘popularity contest’ awards, but M+E Magazine does a decent job of picking out the companies for each catagory.Read more
With Just a Little Imagination, and A Lot of Photoshop So you have a cool Halloween costume idea and you want to take a photo of it. Ok, cool. Are you the type to just go outside, take a quick photo and be done? Are you someone who sets up a fun location spot withRead more
Road to Fashionopolis with MSP Magazine I don’t know a lot about fashion. My wardrobe consists of mainly black clothes. I purposely do that for three reasons. One, it helps me blend in with the shadows in the background so no one can see me while I’m photographing something. Two, I can wear any kindRead more
The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How Method When considering photos to use in your social media and marketing, it’s important to think a little bit more outside the box. Instead of showcasing just the obvious, showcase the subtle too. It will tell more of your story. People want to know more. Here areRead more
Superbowl Weekend Hits Minnesota So, I can finally share all (or at least some) of the fun stuff we got to photograph over the crazy week the Superbowl came to Minneapolis, Minnesota! It was a super tiring, stressful, exciting, fun and interesting week! Watching all of my fellow vendors bounce from one event to theRead more
International Live Event Association STAR Awards Event I woke up Friday morning hearing about a spring blizzard that would hit Minnesota that night. Being a true Minnesotan, I thought little of the warnings and moved on with my day. It’s springtime after all. How much snow could we actually get this time of year…? Apparently, aRead more
How I Create a Composite Image I love taking multiple images and seeing how I can edit them together to create a whole new image! People often ask me ‘how in the world did you do that?’ To answer that question in detail takes a long time. It also has a lot of, ‘I’m not reallyRead more
When you have photos of someone who has passed I never really know what to do when death comes knocking on someone’s door I know. I don’t know if anyone truly knows the right thing to do at times like that. Each situation is so different. We want to help, hug, feed, cry, console, screamRead more
Women are not perfect enough, and men have no opinion, are the sad differences about how they each personally feel about having their own photo taken. I’ve been a photographer for a long time. I’ve photographed many different body types, and have seen the beauty they each possess. No one body is prettier than another.Read more