Meet  Fabulous Photographer and Amazing Mom Wendy Zippwald from Oahu, Hawaii! (Above image by Brenda Van Valkenburg of Brenda Van Photos) This is our last Amazing Mom interview for 2011, and it is a complete honor to have it be Wendy Zippwald!!  Some of you know Wendy as an amazing photographer, but she is many, […]

The Sacramento CONFIDENCE Photography Workshop for women will always be a special weekend.  Brian and I often feel limited to bigger cities with bigger airports so more of you can have access to attending the workshop, whether the flights are cheaper b/c of a bigger airport or there are more friends and family to stay […]

Meet Gretchen McFarland…a wonderful boudoir photographer and an AMAZING MOM! I was so excited to interview  Gretchen McFarland, a Boudoir Photographer from North Carolina.  She attended a CONFIDENCE Workshop last November and look where her business is now!  She took the leap and never looked back.  Yay Gretchen!  We will be “talking” with Gretchen in the SOARority forum tomorrow night, […]

Meet the Seattle Fall CONFIDENCE Workshop, a beautiful group of women who flew in from all over the country!  On Day Two, we start the morning with unpacking metering so that we can be shooting in Manual Mode by the time the Family Shoot happens that same afternoon.  Women are always a bit nervous, especially […]

We leave DC today after a wonderful week of adventure with the kids and powerful workshop with the DC CONFIDENCE ladies.  Every time Brian and I walk in to the workshop room the morning of Day One, to meet all these beautiful women for the first time, I wonder what magic will happen.  What stories […]

Meet Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and SONY Artisan, Brian Smith! I know what you are thinking…”wait a minute…he’s not an Amazing Mom!”  🙂  Yep, your right.  But…Brian is freaking AMAZING!  And somehow, he has graciously made time in his busy schedule and accepted the invitation to be here today to talk about shooting celebrity portraits, […]