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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 the VERY beginning of my business, I have always been what I call a Shoot & Share photographer: meaning I deliver high resolution digital files to all of my clients. Instead of offering sales for prints and products, I have found so much value in including these files in my pricing and packages – and there is […]
Last year, Morgan and I traveled to Greece on a whim…and this year it was Argentina. Maybe this should become an annual tradition!?!?! Haha! At the end of 2018, Morgan was gone for a few weeks in Argentina visiting her sister and brother-in-law. She came back home for a short time before traveling to Peru (can […]
It’s Monday it’s Monday it’s Monday!!! And that means a BRAND NEW episode of Happy Hour with Hope!!! AH!!! This week is the first “official” episode…because it’s the first EDUCATIONAL episode!!! This month we are talking all about WORKFLOWS and SYSTEMS in my business. I’m sharing every piece of my workflows, with no stone left […]
If you follow me on social media, you’ve seen me doing some secret filming and hinting about a new project the last few months!!! One of priorities coming into the year of 2019 was creating content that my FOLLOWERS wanted to see…not just things that I liked to create. I did a lot of polls […]
I debated whether or not I should share this blog post. A few weeks ago, when a lot of people started to share their 2018 recaps on Instagram stories or on social media, I saw so many mean tweets floating around. “Yeah thanks for sharing a mile-long story, no one wanted to see that!!!” “PSA no […]
This is a MAC DADDY of a blog post…hahaha!! If you didn’t see earlier this week, I shared my Best of Engagements 2018 post. This time of year is when I share all of my FAVORITE work from the previous year…and I absolutely love it! I go through every single wedding gallery that I created (which […]
This week of blog posts is easily my FAVORITE of each year. After the end of every shooting season, I go back through tens of THOUSANDS of photos and select my absolute favorites from each gallery. It’s a LONG process…but it is so rewarding!!! I get to re-live so many amazing memories, clients and locations […]
This may be one of the most anticipated blog posts that I’ve been asked about NONSTOP this year!!! And it took me until Christmas to finally get it done! Haha!!! On THIS DAY last year, I signed to move into my very first home…and it is SO special to me. There are already so many […]
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