Monthly Highlights is a blog series I do to recap everything that happened over the past month. I've been doing Monthly Highlight installments for a little over a year now, but have always struggled to figure out the right format for them. Initially, they were supposed to be a way to make my annual recaps
I spent the better half of this morning sitting on the dusty floor of my apartment with my head buried in my lap out of despair. The culprit? Attempting to assemble a new ergonomic chair for my home office and realizing I couldn't differentiate between a nut and a bolt, an Allen wrench and a
It's that time of year when an annual review is due! I've been doing annual reviews since 2011, but many of these previous versions were image-based, sort of like a checklist of all the things I've photographed throughout the year. While I definitely think there's merit to doing these sort of annual reviews, I didn't
Freelance employment is quickly gaining traction in today's world, but that doesn't mean the route to successful full-time freelancing is any clearer than it was before. The truth is, full-time freelancing contains a ton of seemingly unrelated moving parts, something even I didn't expect when I first set out on my freelancing journey. Today, I
Late September 2014 marks my second full year in business as a self employed photographer and businesswoman, and I can hardly believe how fast time has flown. Looking back on last year's one year marker, I can still taste the fear of failure and wondering each month where my next pay check would come from. Surprisingly,
For some reason, September feels like it was the longest month of the year. Perhaps it was because I wasn't hair brained busy with shoots this month, which was actually a good thing because I really needed the down time to focus on other projects. So, all this is to say that September wasn't the
The month of August began and ended with music festival madness, but it also included a fun and relaxing family vacation to San Diego as well. The rest of the month had its share of event and real estate photography work as well, but it was largely a nice relaxation month during which I had
Summertime is definitely the peak of my busy season, but even knowing that could not have prepared me for the madness that was the month of July of this year. It was so crazy in fact that it is one of the reasons why this monthly highlights post is several weeks behind schedule. Anyway, it
June is one of my favorite months of the year. It's a crazy month in terms of festivals and activities including Seattle's infamous naked bike ride at Fremont Solstice Parade, followed by the Seattle Pride Parade the following weekend. Not to mention more real estate gigs as the weather is more favorable for photographing homes
I don't think I ever could have predicted the wonderfully weird and diverse mix of photography opportunities I had in May. Last year, I spent the bulk of May relaxing at home in Oahu and exploring the Big Island of Hawaii. This May, I had a fun time staying in the Pacific Northwest covering everything from
