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How To Prepare for Your Best Headshot/Branding Session
So you’ve booked a photo session, what’s next? It’s time to plan your outfits and styling. What’s the most important point to remember: Keep your look simple, classic, and flattering. WHAT TO WEAR 1. Avoid a fashion crisis by choosing clothing that feels authentically you. You want to look and…
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Happy 2022! | Northampton Headshot & Personal Branding Photographer
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you are well and spent the holidays with those you love! Things have been busy in the studio and I’m excited to share some my latest offerings with you! Let’s make 2022 filled with light and inspiration. 1. Fine Art Prints. If you…
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New Cyanotype Art Now Up At YourDailyPhotograph
Happy December, Friends! I’m incredibly honored and excited to announce one of my photographs, Ethereal Botanicals, was just accepted by YourDailyPhotograph.com. Click here to see the listing (as well as all the incredible work in their catalog)!
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Blue Poem Cyanotype Art Series
I spent yesterday afternoon mixing cyanotype solution and coating it onto paper. Cyanotypes are a historic photographic printing process made by coating a photo-sensitive solution onto a surface and exposing the surface to UV light. This process creates a cyan-blue print. Sometimes I use film or photo paper as a…
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Happy World Cyanotype Day!
Happy World Cyanotype Day! In celebration of World Cyanotype Day, I’m sharing a new print that is included in this year’s online gallery show “Rejuvenation”. You can check out the entire show at Alternative Photography’s site here. The work is really spectacular and has long been one of my favorite…
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Summery Lumen Botanical Art Prints
Hello and Happy September! A note about portrait sessions. Yes, my portrait studio is open and operates in accordance to Massachusetts health and safety protocols. Know that when you come into the studio for a portrait session, the studio and equipment have been cleaned and disinfected. I will also be…
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Botanical Photograms | Cameraless Photographic Art
How is it August already? I’ve been working with botanicals and light all summer long, creating collections of color prints. I wanted to take this experiment into the darkroom. What could I make without a camera, a single light source, and black and white chemistry? A lot. The above image…
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The Peony Collection
Happy Summer, Friends! I’ve been busy in the studio with a new series of color peony prints in pink and green, titled The Peony Collection. You can find them in the online store, a fitting flower to evoke joy all year long, along with the Calla Lilly Collection in black…
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How To Prepare For Your Next Headshot Session
Spring is the perfect time to spruce up your personal and business headshots! A lot of clients ask me how to prepare for a session. What should I wear? What about hair & makeup?
Here are my go to tips to look your best in your photos. Remember the focus…
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How To Curate Art For Your Home
Over the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at empty wall space in my house (maybe you have too?) and thinking how I should really hang art there. Not a single large piece, rather a small collection of my favorite pieces Do you have a personal collection…
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The Calla Lily Collection
I’m so excited to share with you a new collection of fine art prints that I’ve created—The Calla Lily Collection—and have added to my online store. The complete collection includes five beautiful black and white photographs of calla lilies printed with archival processes at 7x10-inches on Baryta Fibre Based Fine…
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New work for The Postcard Collective—Summer 2020
I’m a member of the Postcard Collective, a quarterly art exchange in which art is sent via postcards in the mail, and created new work for the summer edition theme. To celebrate the Collective’s 10th anniversary, the summer exchange’s theme is Ten. I used a digital pinhole camera to create…
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The Curated Fridge Summer Show
I’m thrilled to be included in The Curated Fridge summer show, titled “Little Wins,” curated by Bree Lamb (Managing Editor at Fraction Magazine). Check out another excellent show, this time around it’s all digital, no prints on the fridge. Thanks to Bree and Yorgos Efthymiadis (Founder of The Curated Fridge)…
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The Curated Fridge Summer Show
I’m thrilled to be included in The Curated Fridge summer show, titled “Little Wins,” curated by Bree Lamb (Managing Editor at Fraction Magazine). Check out another excellent show, this time around it’s all digital, no prints on the fridge. Thanks to Bree and Yorgos Efthymiadis (Founder of The Curated Fridge)…
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Northampton Studio Opening | Northampton Family Photography
I’m happy to announce that the studio doors are open! Following the Governor’s Phase 2 guidelines, I’ve come up with a plan to safely begin studio sessions again. As of right now, studio sessions are available for small groups and individuals, immediate family or fewer. The studio is open by…
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New eGift Cards | Nikki Gardner Photography
Although my studio is temporarily closed for portrait sessions, you can still purchase gift cards online (no expiration date), delivered safely to your inbox. An eGift card makes a perfect all occasion gift—we will all need portraits (family, business, artists and makers, children) whenever life returns back to normal. The…