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I'm Hope Taylor. A photographer, educator and business coach serving joyful clients for almost a decade. I began my business when I was just 16 years old, and now I help you grow yours from my home in Savannah, GA!
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Today we are going to talk about how to book your FIRST EVER senior session! I’ve been a senior photographer for over a decade and I absolutely LOVE it. But I know how hard it can be to break into the market and get in touch with your first client if you’ve never done it […]
My LAST senior session of the year!!! WHAT!? 2023…how did this happen?! I truly can’t believe that we’re already in November! But, Ciana’s Charleston senior session was the PERFECT way to end out the year. I called my mom on the way home from this shoot and said “it was the ideal senior session in […]
I can’t quite believe it, but this is my second to last senior session of 2023! Where did time go!? Cassie’s senior portraits took place in Charleston, SC during a beautiful fall sunrise. Those early mornings used to not be my favorite time to shoot…but they are now by FAR what I prefer! Cooler temps, […]
My LAST wedding blog post of 2023…and it’s such a special one! Olivia and Curt tied the knot last week in Charleston, SC with the most gorgeous, intimate elopement at Middleton Place. And I still can’t believe I got the honor of being their photographer! Olivia and I went to high school in the same […]
Cloudspot, which is the program that I use for my gallery delivery, has released a brand new program called Cloudspot Studio and in today’s video, I am joined by their CEO, Gavin Wade, to talk all about it! With Cloudspot Studio, you can now use it to deliver contracts, invoices, and questionnaires to your clients, […]
Earlier this week, I blogged part 1 of our honeymoon in the Amalfi Coast. Today, I’m sharing the FINAL blog post from the wedding series…the second half of our honeymoon in Florence, Italy! I will forever remember Florence as my favorite place I have ever traveled. To be honest, Hayden chose our locations for our […]
I’ve spent the last two weeks blogging our entire wedding day, but the fun isn’t over yet! Now I’m back to recap our HONEYMOON!! 🙂 We traveled to Italy for 10 days after our wedding day, and it was the trip of a lifetime. I’ll be breaking the honeymoon recap into two parts: our stay […]
When it rains, it pours…and that was EXACTLY what happened at Bella’s Charleston senior session! I am actually not sure if I have EVER had a shoot with this much rain. Talk about a plot twist!! The forecast for Bella’s senior session was absolutely beautiful the morning of her shoot: 80 degrees and sunny. But, […]
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I began my business during my junior year of high school, and fell in love with photography while capturing all of my peers and their senior portraits. I built a six-figure photography business on my passion for senior clients - and now I help hundreds of photographers across the globe do the same!
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"Hope is so much more than *just* an educator, but a loyal, fierce believer in the people she invests in, and who invest in learning from her."
— Rob
"Thanks to Hope, I'm literally booking so fast I can't keep up! I booked 3 sessions in ONE day after applying what she taught me!"
— jessie
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