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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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This week has been a BUSY one on the blog…but this may be the post I’ve been most excited for!!! If you follow me on Instagram, then you may have seen that I worked on a BEAUTIFUL styled shoot here in Charleston last week! It was my first time working with a group of wonderful […]
My LAST senior session in Virginia. WHAT!?!? The blog posts this week all have the same theme…because they are all my LAST work captured in Fredericksburg, VA before I moved to Charleston over the weekend. I clearly still haven’t even wrapped my mind around it!! Lauren and her mom were so wonderful and flexible with […]
This post is so fun for me to be sharing!!! My sweet little sister Abby turned 14 over the weekend. Even though we are in the midst of moving to Charleston (her birthday was the day before the movers came!), we still wanted to make her birthday SO special. Birthdays have been and always will […]
As this post is going live, there are movers at my house packing up everything we own to head down to Charleston this week! AH!!! Kaitlyn’s senior session is one of my LAST senior sessions in VA…which is absolutely crazy to me!! The day of her shoot was a steamy 100 degrees and the humidity […]
Ya’ll…I STILL CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING. Just in case you missed THIS post two weeks ago…my family and I are moving to CHARLESTON! As this post goes live, I have 15 days left in Virginia. What. In.The. World. I’ve been getting SO many questions from friends and family and followers like “where the heck did […]
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 […]
I had been looking forward to this senior session for SO LONG! Maddie reached out to me about wanting to travel into town to capture her senior portraits here in Fredericksburg. She lived over two hours away in a small town AND she was a photographer herself. Talk about feeling HONORED to be chosen to […]
Week number THREE of May is here! So far, we have broken down two of my favorite lenses: the 35mm lens and the 100mm macro! Today, I want to break down a lens that is NEW in my collection: the Canon 24-70mm lens! This lens has been SO fun to play with and add to […]
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