When you ask the person sitting next to you to take your picture on this fabulous red couch and end up with a shot like this, you know you’re in the right place! Read more to learn about a photography workshop I attended in a castle in Italy.

I’m now an official Associate Photographer of my mentor Sue Bryce. What an honor!

500 portrait photographers together for education, networking, shooting, and partying for five days, that’s The Portrait Master Conference 2019!

I recently returned from a workshop in Los Angeles learning from Sue Bryce, who showed us the importance of creating an empowering experience for our 50+ clients.

Looking at the beauties in these photos, you’d think I was hanging out models!  The wonderful thing is, they are all photographers who specialize in making other women look gorgeous in photos.

I was able to spend the day with Sue Bryce at her studio in LA experiencing what happens behind the scenes of a photoshoot!

After writing a testimonial about the groundbreaking photography workshop 28 Days with Sue Bryce, and sharing it on social media, I was the selected as the lucky winner of a trip to LA to spend the day with Sue Bryce at her portrait studio.

I try to enter photo contests as often as I can muster the courage, which doesn’t happen as often as it should. This year I entered the Glamour Photowalk 2014 which was sponsored by Lori and Photo Communiqué, and I was one of the winners!

You are good enough to be in a family portrait.You are good enough to be photographed with your kids. You are good enough to exist in photographs.

I just did! “Steal like an Artist” is a book by Austin Kleon, in which he states that nothing is completely original; all creative work builds on what came before. Even Picasso was a creative kleptomaniac!

Being in the presence of Sue was everything I had hoped and thought it would be. She is magnetic, wise, funny, sensual, free-spirited, and one of the most genuine people I have ever met.