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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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Oh this post just makes me SO excited!! EEK! Over the last few weeks, Ally has become one of my sweetest + closest friends. She has a heart of gold, and she is pursuing her dreams in a way that anyone would admire. She works a full time job, another part time job, is planning […]
Whenever I book a mentoring session, the first thing that I do is contact my senior reps and ask who is available to model for the day! Faith had been wanting pictures with her boyfriend, Daniel, for MONTHS but our busy schedules always conflicted! Finally, when Megan booked her one-on-one mentoring session, Faith + Daniel […]
I absolutely love mentoring sessions for SO many reasons. I get to share my heart with other photographers, learn alongside them, spend an entire afternoon teaching + shooting, and I get to have past clients come back and model for the shooting portion of the day!! Anytime another photographer books a mentoring session with me…one […]
So, this is not a normal one-on-one mentoring session post…it’s even better!! When Emily contacted me about a mentoring session a few months back, I was BEYOND excited! I just knew that I was going to love her from the start! We chatted for a few weeks about what we were going to focus on […]
EEEEEEKK! Tomorrow is THE day! Registration finally opens for the Hope Taylor Senior Photography Workshop and I am over-the-moon excited!! At 10am tomorrow, January 12th, registration goes LIVE and you will have the chance to snag one of 12 seats at the March workshop! This will be the FIRST Senior Photography Workshop and there are […]
These two are one of my absolute FAVORITE couples to shoot!! I have grown up knowing Connor since I was 5 years old, and our families have been close ever since we were neighbors when I was young. We spend every spring break together, go on family trips whenever we can, visit each other’s home […]
This is such an exciting blog post for me!! I knew I would be excited when my studio lighting finally came in…but I didn’t think I would be THIS excited!!! I ordered a ring light awhile back, and I had been waiting WEEKS for it to finally come in! When it finally arrived this week, […]
When Brittany first emailed me about her wedding photography and told me the story of how Andy proposed, I fell in love with them immediately!! Andy spent an entire afternoon with Brittany’s best friend to find the perfect ring, and then he surprised her and proposed under a gazebo where they had gone on one of their first […]
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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."
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"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!"
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Ever wondered what programs I use in my business? My camera gear? My must-have photography products? Maybe just my favorite outfits to wear on wedding days? I've compiled a massive list of ALL my favorite things in every category!
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