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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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Like I said in Tuesday’s post…last week was a GOOD one!!! I was lucky enough to have Heather of Cardinal Rose Photography join me for a mentoring session at my studio in downtown Fredericksburg at the beginning of the week. We spent four hours together diving into her business, building marketing strategies + making a game plan to […]
OHHHH, these two!! Morgan contacted me quite a few months ago about a possible mentoring session, but we ended up shooting a sweetheart session with her + her hubby instead! They just happened to be in town during the week before Christmas, and we ended up having a BEAUTIFUL afternoon with low 60’s temperatures!! In […]
If you didn’t see part 1 of my New Zealand + Australia trip, you might want to head HERE + read that before continuing reading!! 🙂 But, if you did, welcome back!!! I’m so glad you’re here to see part 2!!! Queenstown was easily my FAVORITE destination on our entire adventure. When I pictured New […]
As I am typing this, I am halfway over the Pacific and I’m jamming to some Adele as I re-live the last two weeks. If you follow me on Instagram (or read my last blog post!) you know that I have spent the last 15 days in LA, New Zealand and Australia. I spent 10 […]
This is going to be a LONG one, ya’ll!!! I am cramming all of my favorite wedding + engagement images from 2015 into ONE blog post…whew!!! But it’s going to be GOOD!! I am so thankful for all of my 2015 couples + can’t wait to shoot weddings for all of my sweet 2016 couples […]
Every time I get the opportunity to do photos of Erika and Josh, they end up being my FAVORITE shoots!! I had the opportunity to shoot them TWICE in the last week, so this blog post is going to be full of LOTS of pictures and I’m way too excited about it! At the beginning […]
Two beautiful engagement sessions in one week!? Yes, please!!! I am SO blessed to have so many incredible couples for next year + I just know that 2016 is going to be full of wonderful weddings! After shooting the majority of my engagement sessions this year in Fredericksburg (which I LOVE doing!), it was so nice […]
Kelsie + Byron just make my heart so happy. When I first met this two at my studio months ago, I loved them immediately! They are so sweet + genuine, I just can’t get enough of them!! As we were planning their engagement session, we knew that we wanted to capture the beautiful fall colors […]
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