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Royal Announcements

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If you know me, I love being a bit extra in my photos lol. I love colors and flowy clothing. Enter the colorful flying dresses (aka Santorini dresses). I actually first discovered these awesome dresses when a photog friend of mine mentioned them to me and fell in love with these dresses. I love how […]

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Flying Dresses and Sunset Cliffs

San Diego Portrait Photographer
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Time for another blog post and today I want to talk about business lessons learned in 2020. 2020 has definitely been a challenging year for small businesses. There have been numerous shutdowns and a lot of people haven’t gotten the same amount of customers/clients that they had in 2019. Even though 2020 has been challenging, […]

Personal Branding, Portraits

Business Lessons Learned in 2020

San Diego Portrait Photographer - Black Queen Photography
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In the famous words of Jay-Z, allow me to re-introduce myself lol. For today’s blog post I just wanted to re-introduce Black Queen Photography (and myself) at the start of 2021. Black Queen Photography is my photography business. I have had my photography business for a little over two years. Who am I you may […]

Personal Branding, Portraits

Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself

San Diego Portrait Photographer - Black Queen Photography
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Black Girl Magic in the Desert! So I had the pleasure of photographing the stunning Tiffany for her birthday. I actually photographed her mother’s 50th birthday about a year ago. Tiffany reached out and wanted to do her birthday session at Glamis. For those of you that don’t know, Glamis is a desert location about […]

Portraits

Black Girl Magic in the Desert

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Hey everyone! So I wanted to share a fun photo shoot I did a few weeks ago. I am digital/mirrorless photographer. I don’t really ever shoot with film cameras. I like the option to be able to take as many photos as I want without spending a bazillion dollars on film lol. A digital camera […]

Portraits

Photographer vs. Disposable Camera

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Hey everyone! So for today’s blog post, I want to talk about a 24-shot challenge that I did with Cat of Cat Warren Photo and Black male model, Donald Loum. I actually got this idea from the YouTube video that fellow photographer Derrel Ho-Shing. We ended up completing this challenge in the North Park neighborhood […]

Portraits

24 Shot Challenge

San Diego Portrait Photographer - Black Queen Photography
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**This blog does contain some affiliate links.** What do you get when you mix amazing models and killer classic cars? A very happy Black Queen lol. I had the pleasure of participating in a styled shoot with a James Bond theme. There were seven different models to work with and several classic cars. We had […]

Portraits

James Bond and the Bond Women Photo Shoot

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Hey y’all! If this is your first time on my blog, welcome. If you’ve been here before, you may notice some changes. That’s right…I have a whole new look now.

Personal Branding

New Brand, Who Dis?

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