Choosing The Right Images for Your Website for Portrait and Wedding Photographers

Maybe you’re putting up your very first website.

Maybe you’ve had a website for a long time and it’s in desperate need of updating.

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been doing photography; the question of which images to put in your galleries is always a hard one. And when I say hard, I mean staring at your computer until your eyes bleed, agonizing over whether each image should stay or go and never quite sure you’re doing this right kind of hard. Am I right?

Well, there are a few things we do to help us get through that and that’s what I want to talk with you about today. Then you can use these techniques to plow through your gallery selection with great success and move on to other more important things, like eating or sleeping, which I’m sure you’ve been neglecting while agonizing over your galleries. Or is that typically just me? Continue Reading

On Babyhood Fading

Please excuse me. I’m having a moment.

You see, I’m watching his baby-ness fade before my very eyes. He still has a lot of baby left right now, but I’m seeing glimpses of the toddler peeking through. The baby in him is beginning to slip away and he’s becoming a little boy.

Babyhood – that time when you child is really and truly all baby and not even a little bit of a toddler yet – it’s just so terribly fleeting.

That’s been ok up until now because we knew there would be more babies. But this time, as my baby boy becomes my toddler, the baby-ness is leaving our house forever and — (deep breaths…stifle ugly cry) – I just don’t even want to think about it. I need time to slow the ever-loving-daylights down. Because it’s not just babyhood we’re leaving behind. This marks the beginning of the end of our house being full of really little people.

Ugh. (deep breath in…resist the ugly cry, again) Continue Reading