How to Shoot in Manual Mode So you’ve bought your first DSLR and it’s not living up to your expectations. You’re taking hundreds of shots… just to fluke a few keepers. Is this where you’re at? When I bought my first DSLR, I thought there was something wrong with it. It simply didn’t live up […]

Welcome to our weekly highlights reel of Featured Artists, the first for 2026! Each week, we showcase a collection of our favourite images taken by the talented Click Love Grow Students and Grads. Congrats to our featured artists this week: Pat Hauk Sebaugh, Kate McKenna, Jennifer Smith Strand, Connie Rac, Donna Fletcher Lauridsen, Kristin Blaikie […]

Welcome to our weekly highlights reel of Featured Artists, the first for 2026! Each week, we showcase a collection of our favourite images taken by the talented Click Love Grow Students and Grads. Congrats to our featured artists this week: Tara Chumsae, Pat Hauk Sebaugh, Kate McKenna, Kimberly Bellew Jepson, Jennifer Smith Strand, Emma Kirk, […]

Beautifully backlit photos are dreamy, warm, golden, whimsical…what’s not to love? But there’s more to creating a stunning backlit portrait than finding light and putting it behind your subject. Click Love Grow Instructor Merissa Wakefield is a master of backlit photography, which she helps us teach on our Advanced Photography Course. Aaand in this gorgeous […]

Can you imagine being so excited by the photos you’re taking, you can’t wait to get home and edit them? And what about having the confidence and skills to know exactly what you need to do to get photos that match your vision, in any situation? That’s what Coral Hagan got out of the Advanced […]

I was lucky enough to sit down recently with the amazing Keziah Krikmann, a pro photographer from the Sunshine Coast, Australia, and we talked all about creating beautiful Hero Shot images, about creating moments for authentic connection, and how we don’t need to always chase trends! Keziah is hosting an upcoming workshop here at CLG, called […]

Let me introduce you to the very first camera I ever bought for myself as a photographer. Now, I’d had plenty of cameras before this one, remember those fun novelty cameras from childhood? I had a Coca-Cola can-shaped film camera that I took on a primary school camp, and I thought it was the coolest […]

Do you reach for the camera on special occasions, and for  every milestone and outing, only to be disappointed when your photos don’t turn out how you imagined? Your kids run the other way, the light just doesn’t look right… or you can’t put your finger on why exactly it just didn’t turn out like […]

When it comes to street photography, the very nature of it means the backdrop is often very busy. But that’s ok because often the entire scene is your subject matter. But when you want to highlight something specific, it can be hard to isolate it from the many distractions in the surrounding environment. Times like that, […]