As this week’s highlights reel lands in your inbox, we hope you’ve had a fabulous weekend and took lots of photos! Weekdays can be busy especially for us mamas, but I hope you can carve out even a tiny pocket of time for yourself to take some photos or even just edit what you took […]

The photo wall in our Grad’s group this week jumped out at me as being abundent with sublime macro images and super cute furbabies and wildlife! So our highlights reel is evidence that our photography lessons can be applied to any genre, not just gorgeous portraits of cute kids! Enjoy!   Join my new workshop […]

Our Grads in the northern hemisphere might be shivering in the cold right now, but what a fantastic opportunity for breathtaking photos shot in a winter wonderland! So this week’s highlights reel is a collection of fantastic ideas for shooting in the snow! Check em out and grab the bonus tips!   1. Portraits One […]

Many of our Grads talk about having taken up photography because they wanted an outlet for creativity, and something that was just for them. And Kellee, a mum of four and a much loved member of our CLG community, is one of those Grads.   Meet Kellee Kellee lives in Fargo, North Dakota with her […]

As much as we love photography, all too often work, kids, family and everything in between seems to come first, and we don’t shoot anywhere near as often as we’d like. But when you consider how big  part photography plans in our emotional well-being, it makes zero sense that it’s not at the very top […]

Are you your family historian? You know what I mean… that person in the family who documents all.the.things in photos, driven by a desire to not forget a single thing. Not to mention it’s a tangible way to ensure your future generations know your family’s story. From the big things to all the little everyday […]

When we learn to confidently shoot in manual mode, there’s no question it’s a game changer. It’s a totally liberating feeling to master your camera! It gives us the power to create technically sound photos every time… no more unintended motion blur, or over and under exposed photos. But ultimately, we want more than just […]

This week’s highlights reel of images from our CLG community comes courtesy of our Discovering Photoshop Creative Workshop which recently wrapped up. Over the course of the four week tutorial, our students experimented with different types of photo edits, which resulted in some absolutely STUNNING Photoshop fixes both for portraits and landscape photography! This article […]

Our recent Studio Portraits Creative Workshop led by Kellee Kromarek Hann wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, and we were so thrilled to see everyone getting into the fun! We saw students creating mini studios at home, enthusiastically sourcing props, playing with styling, and exploring easy studio lighting set ups. By the end of […]

Today’s highlights reel brings you a blast from the past! This sparkling collection of images has come from last year’s Exploring the Creative Workshop, plus Grad group challenges. Our talented Grads created light bokeh in various ways to take artistic abstracts, and bring sparkle to their holiday photos! And that’s the focus of our brand […]