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Lifestyle Family Photography Workshop – Family is Everything

Lifestyle Photography Workshop

  In early June I co-hosted my first in-person lifestyle family photography workshop Family is Everything with Sara Garcia of Sara Garcia Photo Art and the experience was amazing.  It was intimate, just Sara and myself plus 5 amazing participants talking all about the business of family photography. We kicked off the workshop with a […]

Family is Everything – Lifestyle Family Photography Workshop

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So as you may know I took 2017 off from teaching my online documentary/lifestyle family photography workshops. My first education announcement for 2018 is an in-person workshop here in Colorado. I have a wonderful teaching partner so clear your calendar for June 7-10th, 2018 and pop on over to the workshop website to get all […]

The Business of Telling Stories Workshop Review by Rhea Bailey

Lifestyle Photography Workshop

Click here to learn more about the workshop or register for the next run which starts April 6th  🙂 “If you have even an inkling of an interest in storytelling/documentary photography. This is THE workshop to take. I’ve actually taken the workshop twice. Yes, twice. That’s how good it is. Colie packs so much information (and […]

The Business of Telling Stories Workshop Review by Jodie Byrne

Lifestyle Photography Workshop

“This would have to be one of the best, most interactive and well organised workshops I’ve ever taken. Colie is amazing and the feedback you receive from both her and Kayla was insightful and spot on to help develop and improve storytelling images and sessions. Their support and the incredibly friendly atmosphere in the forums […]

The Business of Telling Stories – April 2015

Review of The Business of Telling Stories by Angela Norlen

Lifestyle Photography Workshop

Documentary Family Photography Workshop – There have been a number of changes to the Telling Stories with Lifestyle Photography workshop since I first offered it in August of 2013.  What started as a 5 week workshop in exploring lifestyle photography to tell rich stories of your own family and others has now grown into two […]

The Stories We Tell – Stories to Remember July 2014

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Technically we blogged on August 1st, but shhhh.  I am so very proud of each of the participants.  To see all the images in a collage just makes me say WOW.  In case you don’t follow The Stories We Tell each month we have a collection of stories told by each participant and then we […]

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