There is so much to catch up on from these past few months. As you may have read earlier this week I shared the exciting news that I recently left my full-time job in television production after 13 years to devote my full attention and care into running my photography business full-time!
I am still so overwhelmed by everyone’s sweet sentiments, thank you so much! There may have been a few joyful tears (wink, wink). I feel very blessed to have an incredible community and support system by my side. And if you missed my big announcement this week, you can read about it HERE.
I am over the moon excited to finally be able to share with you all the projects I have been working hard on behind the scenes throughout this past year and over the winter months. What’s New and What’s Changing for Anne Marie Photography. Drum roll please!!!!!
Re-branding my business to Anne Miller.
As my business grew and evolved, I began to feel that the name Anne Marie Photography wasn’t the best fit for my business and quite honestly created a lot of confusion for potential clients, fellow photographers, and vendors as so many naturally thought my first name was Anne-Marie. I always felt so bad correcting anyone or having to explain who I was when meeting new artists, almost having to introduce myself as “Anne Marie Miller” so they connected who I was with my work. The confusion and disconnect that it created led me to start questioning where I saw my business growing as a portrait photographer and felt change was necessary.
This past August, I met with the incredibly talented and fabulous Tiffany Farley for a two day one-on-one mentoring workshop and we dug deep into everything branding and my business name was at the top of my list to discuss. She suggested and agreed that changing my business name to Anne Miller reflected the simple and classic nature of my portrait work and we felt it best represented my brand.
What can you expect?
Be on the lookout for all of my social media accounts and my business email to change.
FACEBOOK:
Both my Facebook business page and personal page profile names will be changing to Anne Miller.
INSTAGRAM:
My current Instagram account profile name will be changing to @_annemiller. This won’t affect anything for my current followers. If you aren’t already following me, hop on over and let’s connect!
EMAIL:
My email name will be changing to Anne Miller, Photographer instead of Anne Marie Photography. My new email address is [email protected]. My inbox is always open to you, I love meeting new people and hearing from my friends!
After deciding to change my business name to Anne Miller, I began looking for calligraphers to design and hand-script my new logo, knowing I wanted something unique that best represented my style. I found Sarah Cruz of Love & Lemons Creative on Instagram and instantly fell in love with her beautiful hand-scripted calligraphy work. She is such a talented artist and was wonderful to work with! You can check out her Etsy store HERE. I am in LOVE with my new logo and can’t wait for you to see it when I launch my new website!
Great segue into the next big change!
Oh you guys, THIS has been the biggest project of all and I am bouncing off the walls excited to say that it is almost ready to go live! I call this project my labor of love!
For over two years, yes two years (sigh) I have tried to build an online home to better showcase the work I create for my families and to design an updated blog space to write, share, and connect with my trusted community I adore so much.
The challenge became finding the time outside of my full-time job and running my business. I struggled with how to accomplish this with (1) my time being limited, (2) how to build it, let’s be honest I am not a tech-savvy person and, (3) not wanting to rush this important process because my website is how our hearts will connect and that is extremely important to me. After researching companies to help, I realized hiring a professional branding company wasn’t the right move for my business at the time, so I committed to building it on my own. Gulp 🙂
This fall after Tiffany Farley refreshed her website, she wrote about how she built her site on her own and was open to mentoring others on how they can do the same. I remember sitting in my cubicle at work, staring at her blog post, knowing I was at the point where I needed to reach out and ask for help.
I am used to working closely with people, brainstorming and coming up with new ideas. Tiffany clearly saw my vision and working with her has been incredible. I am so thankful for her knowledge, creativity, insight, and advice she has given me throughout this process. To say I wouldn’t be launching my website without her is an understatement!
NEW online home: annemillerphotographer.com (coming soon)
And do you want to know the best part?
There is a lot to celebrate! Going full-time, re-branding, launching my new website! I wouldn’t want to celebrate by myself, what fun would that be?!! I have been looking forward to giving back for so long now and have some simple yet meaningful G I V E A W A Y S planned leading up to my website launch day to say thank you for your support. So be on the lookout!
I am really excited to introduce the Parenthood Collection this year. This collection is a series of documenting your family as they grow and evolve. It is my hope to work with your family and build a lasting relationship with you over time. This collection is designed to give families the opportunity to celebrate milestones by choosing between two portrait sessions within the year. Session options could include: Family, Maternity, Newborn, 6 month, 9 month, or First Year portrait sessions. Please inquire at anne@annemillerphotographer for further details.
Are you still with me friends? E X H A L E! I know, it’s a lot of information to digest so let me help recap 🙂
- Re-Branding to Anne Miller– you will begin to see these changes on my social media accounts.
- New Website-coming soon– New online home will be annemillerphotographer.com / email [email protected].
- New Logo– Hand-scripted by the fabulous Sarah Cruz of Love and Lemons Creative.
- The Parenthood Collection– New portrait collection designed to document your family as they grow and evolve. Contact me at [email protected] for further details.
S T A Y T U N E D!
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Next week (fingers crossed) my new website and blog will be ready to go LIVE!
Be on the lookout for GIVEAWAYS leading up to the launch!
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Anne Miller is a Connecticut based natural light photographer specializing in family, maternity, and newborn portrait photography.
Anne is currently booking for spring and summer Portrait Sessions for 2016.
For booking details, please inquire by emailing [email protected]