If you celebrate Easter like my family, it’s a special time and a perfect opportunity to capture some beautiful themed Easter pictures of your children. But we know babies and kids can be hard to light and compose. And unless they’re sleeping, they’re rarely perfectly still so you often end up with dreaded blur. So […]

Click Love Grow Advanced Grad and mentor Emma Davis shows us today how to take beautiful bubble pictures of kids running around, playing, and enjoying some bubbly time!   Tips For Awesome Bubble Photography I love to take pictures of my kids at the park — which is just as well given how much time […]

Happy Monday and welcome to our weekly  Highlights Reel of the images that inspired us this week, all taken by our talented Grads! If you’re interested in learning photography in an uplifting and positive community of women, to start taking photos you LOVE, check out courses here… I’d love to help you get started! And […]

As I was curating favourite images from our Grad’s group for this week’s Highlights Reel, a theme of began to emerge.  And so it was I went looking for more, and it wasn’t hard to find more than enough to populate this post and show off how expertly our Grad’s capture connection in their portraits. […]

Photographing toddlers with their endless curiosity for all.the.things, short attention span and super speed can be challenging! But Vicki Cardilini is a CLG Advanced Grad with loads of experience capturing her now two year old granddaughter Hazel, and today she’s sharing some fantastic tips! Read on to learn how to plan and shoot a toddler […]

When it comes to milestones and big celebrations, having our cameras handy is a no-brainer, but what about the little everyday moments? These moments matter too, perhaps even moreso than the big ones because as our children grow and our lives change, it’s easy to forget all the tiny, fleeting details. So why not commit […]

A theme of alternative perspectives jumped out at me in the Grad’s group this week… specifically there were lots of gorgeous images where they gave big consideration to their angles and shot either looking up or looking down, instead of at eye level. A rookie mistake when first getting into photography is to shoot everything […]

When you look back at images of your childhood, what is it that you love most about them? For those of us born before the digital era, our baby albums are likely filled with faded prints, some out-of-focus, some underexposed, negatives long since lost to the sands of time.   But it’s not what they […]

Our gorgeous Childhood Portraits Creative Workshop is wrapping up as I type, and everyone has had loads of fun learning from our talented mentor, Dana Whitley. When I went searching for images to feature for this week’s Highlights Reel of Grad photos, it was clear from the wall that everyone really threw themselves into the […]

Hello hello happy Monday and welcome to our Highlights Reel, a weekly collection (painstakingly curated!) of our fave Grad shot images shared in our Grad’s group and community. Please enjoy, and check out the links for related blog tutorials with fantastic tips you’ll love! Related: Get Sharp Photos of Kids in Motion; Shoot Your Own […]