As I mention elsewhere, my first business was publishing a magazine about kart racing in Canada and was tremendous fun to run for the year that I kept it up (it was even profitable after the third issue!). As a Journalism student, writing professionally has been a big part of my full-time career and side…
Truthfully, calling web design a personal business is a bit of a stretch — it’s been more of a side hustle from time to time. But even though it’s a part-time thing, I invest the time and focus to give my clients what they’re looking for — an SEO-friendly website that will work for their…
Between 2007 and 2015, photographing weddings was the core of my full-time photo business. It was great fun and I shot over 100 weddings in that time. I loved running my own company and living or dying on my own personal efforts. It’s something I wished I’d done long before when I was a younger…
Event: Pamlico Writers’ ConferenceWhen: April 5 & 6, 2019Where: Turnage Theater, 150 West Main Street, Washington, NC Have you ever dreamed of writing the great American novel? Ever wanted to pick a publisher’s brain for the keys to the book industry? Ever wanted to hobnob with published writers and learn whatever you could from them? You…
Here’s a little wedding photograph-flashback. One colorful October day in 2012 Francesca and Ross said “I do” at Saint Cletus Church in Saint Louis and they partied afterward at The Missouri Bluffs Golf Club. Country clubs are always great for wedding photographs, especially in the fall when the leaves are so photogenic… Related posts
The reception for Kerrie and Patrick’s wedding was held at the fabulous Peabody Opera House (now the Stifel Theatre) in St. Louis, Missouri. We had talked about wedding photography for the pair around the building’s architecture, but I had no idea we would end up standing on the opera stage itself to shoot one of…
Derek is great to work with. He helped make a perfect package to meet our needs and worked within our budget while still giving us amazing quality. You can tell he loves what he does and his results show it as well! — Michelle and Zach Bridgewater, 6/11/2011 The years have just flashed by since…
(Photo above by Rhonda Jean) I’ve learned that winter weather, in the mid-west, can be a lion or it can be a lamb. Last year, our first winter here in St. Louis, it snowed once and the ground remained white for only a couple of days — a far cry from my days in Canada…
It’s amazing that in our first full year of operation here in St. Louis we’ve met so many amazing and fun couples. (And apparently some of them are SO amazing they’ve put Love and Life Photography over the top at The Knot to win the Best of Weddings 2010 award, but that’s the subject for another…
You never know quite what you’re going to get when you point a camera in Tanya and Olin’s direction. Just a week before their wedding, we spent 90 minutes together in St. Charles’ main street complete with a cobblestones, a park by the river, and lots of other photo-friendly places. At one point, I asked…