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Website When we incorporated in September of 2014, I said I never wanted to put anyone out with my entrepreneurial adventure. Meaning, I knew people were willing to help and going to help, but I felt like leaning on that knowledge would be taking advantage of it. I did the bare minimum I could to be adept enough to build a website and hit the ground running. I studied the rudimentary tutorials from Wordpress, Wix and Squarespace and settled on the latter. Because it seemed the most user friendly. The first iteration was shit. Really it was like 3 iterations of shit wrapped into one. Then I did the thing I didn’t want to do. Both Alex Maier, our eventual Creative Director, and Graham E., our graphic designer gave time, talent and energy into helping us build a site that was representative of our brand. Which was tricky, because we hadn’t really sold any clothing yet. It would also be beneficial of me to shout out their spouses Nina Johnson and Melissa Trella who were astronomically more creative than I in assisting Alex and Graham. Once we settled on something we deemed usable, we let it sit. And over time, I’d write blog posts and swap out imagery when Alex would shoot new product. Graham would update logos and I’d change the color way of the site for consistency. Kirsten Uttich came on fill time and implemented a scheduler to our business in 2018. In 2017 we produced about 1335 garments. After she enacted the booking system, we made 1850 garments. Embedding it onto our site was something I was proud to accomplish. I was more proud of Kirsten’s foresight of building a supremely efficient business. We maybe went through 4 versions of our site in the last 9.5+ years. Alex redid it in full in 2020 when we moved to our new location. But that was 4 years ago. We were long overdue to make something simpler, cleaner and more informative. The youngest client we’ve made something for was 13 and the oldest was 89. The bulk is between 26-52. Our demographic is wide and they all use the internet. I went on a short hunt to find someone to make us a new site. Ultimately, I figured out that the type of site we wanted was buildable from the inside. So I built it myself. With a lot of help from the aforementioned people over the years. Squarespace really is quite simple, too. But this new site is a love letter to Alex, Katie Miller, and a few other photographers we’ve worked with over the years. We’ve been gatekeeping imagery to use for social media and that’s a garbage way to utilize the talented work of the photographers. We’ve uploaded 92 albums of photo shoots we’ve produced since our inception. All for the betterment of inspiring and educating our clients. It’s live. We made it public yesterday. We’ll be updating it along the way, but it’s all the things we want it to be. However, I should apologize for all the pictures of me. I’ve been a very inexpensive model over the years. And I get hungry during photoshoots.

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I found this wine, in a unique ribbed clear glass bottle - never shot one like this.  So into the studio, for a look-see and to play with the lighting. I shot the bottle and a light mask using Hensel Freemask, then added the base and background. Here is the final result. #commercialphotography #advertising #productphotography #marketing #Illustration #creativephotography