Hello! Welcome to your blog post. Blogging can be hugely important for your website’s SEO success and for keeping customers coming back for more!  You can use your blog to share about business updates, recent shoots, cool new products, and all kinds of other things. But it doesn’t have to be all business all the time! Readers will love to get to know the “real you!” The person, artist, and entrepreneur behind your great business. Don’t be afraid to show your personality while your write! Blogging is meant to be sort of informal, which helps connect with readers on a personal level. So, what are you going to write about? A good way to start is by sharing your recent work. Have you done any cool shoots lately? (I know you have, you all-star photographer!) I bet you have loads of images just waiting to be shared with your adoring fans. Making this kind of post is really easy! There’s even a template you can follow to write a quick blog that follows all of the “Blogging Best Practices.” It goes like this:   Start With A Really Cool Title Your title should be about 6-10 words and describe your post in an interesting way. Keywords are important, but they should be your secondary priority. “Winter Wonderland Engagement Shoot In Downtown Raleigh” Something like that so set the mood, hook readers, and give a little information about your shoot. This will also help people searching on Google find you if they’re looking for a specific venue, location, or photography style!   Next, Add Words And Images You don’t have to write a novel! Just 1-2 paragraphs of text should do. Focus on the “who, what, where, when, and why” of the post to keep it simple. “Had a ball shooting this engagement photography session with Alex & Sam in Center City Park! The weather was just right, and the energy of this sweet couple just shines through!” Nothing too fancy. You just need some words to ground readers, set the stage, and give your post some searchable text. That way Google match your post to people who are searching for a great photographer like you. As for photos, limit yourself to 10-15 per post. If you want to share more, link readers to a gallery to see all the awesomeness.   Finish With A Link! Remember: No Dead Ends! At the end of your blog, give the reader something to do next. Whether that’s to see a gallery, book a session, or simply read another blog,  give them a link — preferably a big old button…like this one!   Marketing & Design Okay, your cool blog is done. Now all that’s left is to publish and get readers. Think of blogging as part of your marketing strategy – because it really is. Blogs help people find you through search engines. But you can also share your blogs on social media platforms to get people ooh-ing and ahh-ing over your work on your website. The goal is to show them around the place, dazzle them with your work, and hopefully they’ll end up booking their own sessions – or signing up for updates! Sharing is easy. Just click “Share” and post to the social media of your choice. Done and done. Our last notes are about design. Both for your overall blog layout and for each post. People are visual creatures... but you know that already. A beautiful blog will encourage people to stay & read more! Your blog comes with a bunch of layout options so you can create a gorgeous experience for your readers. If you write a longer article, try to break up the words with images peppered throughout. Photos make for a more enjoyable read! If you have extra widgets, you can easily embed them in the footer or sidebar of your blog. Putting in a subscription form, for instance, is a great idea to keep people hooked on reading your blog! That’s about it! You now know everything you need to make a great blog for your business! Good luck, champ. I know you’ve got this. But if you ever have any questions, drop us a line, and we’ll be glad to help! Happy blogging! Xoxo,PhotoBiz  (8 comments)

The opening line of Billy Idol’s 1983 hit “Flesh for Fantasy”—and its title—serve as a neat, if broad, summation of what New York fashion looks like right now. Just as Fashion Week was marked by a return to form, so designers brought attention back to the body. As insubstantial or skimpy as many of the revealing designs are, this sex craze in fashion is solid in its literalness. Lùchen, which debuted for spring, takes a loftier, more conceptual approach to fashion that is more aligned with air. The line, co-designed by Lu Chen and Jacky Luo, both of whom studied at Parsons, builds on the former’s unfinished (because of COVID) thesis. Chen says it was her mission to finish what she had started, and one can feel the seriousness and purposefulness of the team’s approach. The workmanship is meticulous and stands as a testament to skill and possibility. Chen rightly likens it to couture, but there’s a difference: None of the pieces are for sale. They are, rather, material explorations that serve as templates for the ready-to-wear line. This model is disruptive, especially within the context of American fashion history (which is in the spotlight because of the Costume Institute’s new exhibition). For decades, American buyers paid French houses for the right to reproduce Parisian designs, and Seventh Avenue was largely in the business of copying French fashion, which was considered more elevated, more cultured, more interesting, and more desirable than homegrown design. In contrast, Lùchen is self-reliant, conceptualizing and iterating on its own concepts and construction. And the team does this according to their own pace. “The essence of our brand is about time,” says Chen. “Everything here really takes time to make, and we really think about the relationship between time and the body and the world… I feel like we have the mission to record the time by making the garment.” Accordingly, each piece comes with a tag that tracks its birthing and documents material sources and other details.Chen seems interested in and comfortable with big concepts and unknowns. One might say that she want to break free from flesh and the boundaries that are set by the human body. “I feel like we’re always being boxed into a certain shape, which is our own human body shape,” she says. “Our mindset has been thinking how our own body functions… and we tend to give our own shape to anything we can imagine. We always attribute our own figures to the things we create, for example, we create the image of God using our own image… and we create robots and machinery using the structure of our bodies.” Her rebel yell? “I want to deconstruct and really overturn our mindset to try to anthropomorphize everything we create.” otoño supercalifragilisticexpialidocious quête de défis    (0 comments)

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