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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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Vicki emailed me slightly in a panic at the beginning of this year. Her and Ryan were planning their September wedding in a short period of time…and they couldn’t find an available photographer. She emailed me expecting me not to be available…but to her surprise, it was my LAST available September date! She is friends with […]
Abbey and Sam’s engagement session was originally scheduled to be in Richmond a few weeks ago. The forecast kept changing between rain and clouds…so we decided we were going to go for it and embrace it even if it rained! I was packed up with rain boots and umbrellas when I checked the radar one […]
Last week was a BIG travel week!!! I had a wedding at the Biltmore in NC, back home for a senior shoot in Fredericksburg on Tuesday, back to NC for this engagement session on Emerald Isle and then back home to leave again Friday morning for Charleston! WHEW! But traveling is one of my favorite […]
Madi and Keegan’s engagement session was the first shoot of the year where we found blooming flowers!!! AH!!! The cherry blossoms here in VA have started to bloom and I am SO ready for spring. But, as I’m typing this, there are up to 8 INCHES of snow in the forecast for Virginia this week…what!? Bring […]
I vacationed at The Greenbrier with my family while I was in high school, and it quickly became one of my “photography bucket list” locations at age 14. I photographed my first wedding there last year…and was SO excited when Ali and Josh reached out about their wedding at The Greenbrier this summer! When they told me […]
If you live in Virginia (or anywhere on the East Coast…) then you know ALL about the crazy wind storms we had last week. Initially, those storms were supposed to roll in on Thursday evening…the night we had scheduled for Stephanie and Jason’s engagement session. Washington D.C. was under a high wind and storm warning, […]
This blog post just makes me so excited!!! Johnna is such a sweet friend of mine and I work with her and her amazing company, Twila & Co, ALL the time for my workshops and events. She is such a rockstar business owner and an even sweeter friend. When Joe proposed to her last year, […]
AH – the first engagement session of 2018!!! YAY!! I had the chance to meet Lauren and Riley for coffee late last year and we immediately hit it off. We talked about our mutual love for Charleston and her passion for being a labor and delivery nurse. It was such a fun little coffee date!!! […]
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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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