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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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Since when did I become a college graduate photographer?! I’m kind of loving it!!! I always photographed college seniors in addition to high schoolers…I just never advertised it!! Somehow, this year, I ended up getting more COLLEGE inquiries than high school…and it’s been SO fun!! This was my second senior this season on the George […]
Before Candice and Michael’s wedding, I got the sweetest email from Candice’s mom. She was telling me about how excited Candice was to have me as a part of her wedding experience…and the email brought me to tears! This was days BEFORE the wedding! I knew it was going to be an incredible day. I […]
In case you missed it last week, we are doing something a bit different for the month of June! It is my birthday month, so to celebrate I am doing a month of highly requested PERSONAL episodes!!! Each week this month I’ll be sharing a new video and today I’m talking about BEAUTY products again!! […]
Guys…it’s my BIRTHDAY MONTH!!! I’m really not quite sure how it’s already JUNE, but I’m okay with it!!! To celebrate that I turn 23 (!!!) at the end of this month, I thought we would do something a little different for June Happy Hour episodes. You guys have HIGHLY requested a lot of topics that […]
THESE TWO!!! Amanda and Mark traveled to Fredericksburg from Northern VA for their shoot and I was SO excited for it!! When we all chatted over Skype for their initial consultation, we totally hit it off and talked for almost an hour! I knew their engagement session was going to be a blast from that […]
The last week of May is here!!! The ending of a month means the ending of a Happy Hour with Hope topic and it’s always bittersweet. But, this is definitely the May video that I have been MOST excited to share! Last year, I started to have focusing issues with my Canon 50mm 1.2 lens. […]
It’s been a busy week on the blog this week! This is the FOURTH and final post of the week and I think it’s a great finale!!! Tess and Tyler wanted to do something unique for their engagement session, so we went back and forth over email brainstorming some ideas. Then Tess stumbled upon one of […]
I can’t believe it’s MAY!!! Brittany and Alexander’s gorgeous wedding day was one I looked forward to for a long time. It wasn’t my first wedding of the year because I photographed one on a CRUISE back in February…but this felt like my first “normal” wedding and it was the first wedding of my busy season! […]
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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."
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