NEW WELCOME HOME DATE!!!

So it seems that London is a popular place for workshops and our first London date has sold out and there's still more of you wanting to come so we've decided to add another date! Woop!! So if you fancy coming along we now have spaces!!

The Welcome Home workshop will focus on developing your artistic voice, finding your niche market, understanding and developing your brand, valuing the client experience, managing expectations and staying inspired.

Within these topics I will also be covering...

- My artistic Style

- Attracting your ideal client

- Understanding your 'why'

- Marketing

- Shooting

- Post Processing

- Pricing

- Workflow

- Client relationships and experience

TUESDAY 8TH OCTOBER 2013 - LONDON

10am - 7pm

Venue - Belt Craft Studios

Price £400 (inc VAT)

Includes lunch

We are also offering peeps the opportunity to pay in instalments so you can pay your deposit now and pay the rest at the beginning of October... :)

If you would like to come along then drop us an email at info@emmacasephotography.com and we can send over all the info you need.

It's funny.. getting emails from all the new homies that are coming on the workshop, telling us all about themselves.. I've realised one thing.  Every single person that comes on the workshop is already a homie deep down..

come and join us..

Waaaaaaaaaaah! We are now SOLD OUT for our London workshop in October but still have places available in MANCHESTER on TUESDAY 8TH OCTOBER so if you want to come join us then book your place quick!

Welcome Home has become so much more than just a workshop.. it's a great big gorgeous family and we want others to have the opportunity to be involved in this growing community too.. :)

So what is the workshop about?

The Welcome Home Workshop will focus on developing your artistic voice, finding your niche market, understanding and developing your brand, valuing the client experience, managing expectations and staying inspired.

Within these topics I will also be covering...

- My artistic Style

- Attracting your ideal client

- Understanding your 'why'

- Marketing

- Shooting

- Post Processing

- Pricing

- Workflow

- Client relationships and experience

To have a little look at some of the workshops that have been before have a look HERE... and HERE!

But it's not just about what you experience on the day.  Welcome Home has become a strong community of supportive photographers who share advice and experiences... they second shoot for each other and are even shooting each other's weddings.  I'm proud to be a part of such a wonderfully supportive and positive bunch of mo fos.. 

So if you decide to come along.. Welcome Home also gives you..

• Immediate access to the Facebook group

We now have a total of 70 homies in the group.  They chat every day asking questions and offering each other advice and have been on hand for each other whether that's a pricing issue or needing to borrow kit for a wedding... oh and they also like a good laugh and a good dance.. :)

• An invitation to the amazing Welcome Break next April

This 2 day retreat was born out of the homies wanting to get together.. especially as many of them attended different workshops but felt like they knew each other from the FB group.  So in April it was Welcome Break time!  We headed to a wonderful farm in Warwick and slept in Yurts and teepees.. ate good food, played rounders, danced and did the conga.. and then hated it when we had to leave.  It was better than we ever could have imagined and we can't wait for the next one!

• Exclusive opportunities for one to one mentoring sessions

Starting in 2014 I will be offering homies one to one mentoring sessions as part of Welcome Home.  After the workshop it's always incredible to watch attendees build, develop and make changes to their businesses and I think a natural progression is to spend some time looking at the effect of these changes.. what's working.. what maybe isn't working so well.. and why.  These sessions will be tailored to you and will be offered exclusively to attendees of Welcome Home.

Instalments

Both Manchester and London workshops are limited to 15 places.  A few of you have emailed to ask if you can pay in instalments so we wanted to let peeps know that if you'd like to come and join us in MANCHESTER then you can secure your place now with a £200 deposit with the remaining amount due by the 1st October.. :)

If you would like to pay in instalments then please email at info@emmacasephotography.com.  Also if you're worried about where you're at with your business and if the workshop is right for you, then... don't.. :)  Just drop me an email (I promise I don't bite) and we can go from there.. 

Here's a few words from past attendees..

"I'd long been an admirer of Emma's work and her attitude towards wedding photography, and was starting to hit my stride with my own fledgling photography business when she announced she'd be doing workshops. I'd done a handful of photography workshops before but knew this one would have a lot more soul, would probably attract a good, like-minded crowd and would be less 'all about the gear' and more 'all about the love of it'. 
I was at a point where I'd photographed around a dozen weddings and was really enjoying it - but I wanted to find out where I could improve, talk about the business side of things (and check I was doing things right) and get a bit of insight into what sparks Emma's, as well as the other nine Homies', imaginations and creativity. On the day we had an overview of running a photography business, how to improve your own service and clients' experiences; a couples' shoot where Emma explained how she works and how she puts people at ease while she poses them, and a lot of the day was spent brainstorming and learning from each other too, as well as telling stories from our own experiences. By the end of the day we had explored all areas; we'd all laughed, a few of us cried and I walked away with a warm feeling in the pit of my stomach that finally I could feel confident enough to really do my own thing, and that everything would be alright in the end. 10 months on, everyone who has been part of the growing Welcome Home community discusses ideas, opinions and asks each other for help and advice on a daily basis. I've never been so happy to be part of something, and attending the Welcome Home workshop is definitely up there as one of my best business decisions so far. BIG LOVE TO EMMA AND PETE."

"Home to me is where you can be yourself, you can be free and feel loved for who you are and what you are and what you do. This amazing day made me feel so at home in a room full of people I had never met before that felt like family by the end of the day.

Emma you spoke from your heart, we saw your passion, what gives you butterflies.

You made me feel butterflies and the biggest thing for me? you made me realise that it's ok to just be me behind my camera.

Bingo.

There it is.

Welcome Home."

So what are you waiting for????  We would absolutely love to see you there!

welcome home..

Next week we head to Dublin for our first Welcome Home Workshop of 2013.. I can't describe how this little family of open, supportive, emotive and kind photographers make me feel.  They make me so proud to be a part of this.. and together we really have created something pretty special.  I can't wait to meet the new bunch of homies and to continue to watch with pride this family grow and grow..

Last year we visited three cities.. three workshops in a week.. our own little road trip.. we met so many incredible people.. and loved every minute..



Shutterbox.. seriously guys.. stop being so incredibly amazing.. this little film makes me cry every time I watch it. Thank you.. thank you.. thank you.. thank you..

We adore sharing this adventure with you..

the welcome home road trip...

One week

Three Workshops

956 miles

36 Homies

3 cute couples

240 hugs

842 tears

1426 belly laughs..

..and one girl who can't even begin to tell you how lucky and grateful she feels.

In a moment of madness we decided to do three workshops as a road trip.. in a week.  We chose Edinburgh, Bristol and London and without too much thought.. we put them out there.. not thinking about how much work would be involved or would anyone even book!?!  Places started to fill and plans started to be made.. we booked venues, filled goodie bags, I wrote a lot of notes.. we wanted it to be perfect.. we wanted everyone who came to share this with us to go away with so much..

I can't tell you how much this week has meant.  I wanted to fill this workshop with my heart.. I wanted everyone to feel those butterflies, to go away with tools that they could use in their own businesses but more than that I wanted them to go away with a new found confidence.. that they are doing it right.. that their work has worth.. that they understand every part of their business and, it might sound stupid, that they understand themselves too.  I don't think any of us really expected it to be such an emotional roller coaster but sharing, discovering, admitting, playing.. I think we all felt it.. and watching those lightbulbs moments happen in front of us was just incredible..

I also didn't realise how much of an effect it would have on me.. preparing for the workshop you really have to look at yourself.. how you work, why you do things and there has been quite a few personal discoveries along the way.  I'm more confident than ever with why I do things and what's important to me as an artist and what's important to me when it comes to our couples.  I feel like I've fallen in love with my job, photography, my couples.. even the world all over again.. and I think we all came away from this week feeling so excited, so grateful, so lucky and in our crazy, busy lives.. a clearer idea of  what's important..

..and I know exactly what is important to me.. and one of those things is Pete.  With this job you often get quite a lot of praise.. whether it's a comment on the blog, a tweet or someone talking about your work but if your job is maybe more behind the scenes sometimes that praise might get missed.  Pete is simply amazing.  We've been working together now for nearly two years and I honestly could not do it without him.  He runs the business. Period... and now that he also second shoots I'm actually starting to wonder what I actually do?!?.. ;)  Ha! But seriously.. this workshop was just as much Pete's baby as it was mine.. every venue, every hotel, food, transport, pub, goodie bags.. Pete had it covered.. and on top of that he danced, he laughed, he hugged.. he even cried when some guy gave us free scones (told you it was an emotional week).. I want him to know just how much I appreciate everything he does and that I feel completely bullet proof with him next to me.. we are the best team and bloody hell his new hair cut is so bloody fit.  Thank you Pete.. for just being your amazing self.. I'm one very lucky girl..

So.. what did we get up to? 

Well first up.. here's an AMAZING trailer from Shutterbox films... (I've literally watched it about 50 times)...

I also cannot thank Lee and Dawn (Shutterbox Films) enough for wanting to come with us and the help and support that came with it.. they filmed, they supported, they made tea, they made us laugh, Lee drove the hire car when the indicators had a mind of their own (another story).. we honestly couldn't have done it without them.  I've never laughed so much and so hard in years.. even breaking down in the hire car was the best thing ever.. we've come back with two amazing friends that we hate being apart from so when our Edinburgh couple couldn't make it.. who was there to step up and happily take their place?.. I say happily.. Lee's first words were.. NO WAY.. but I'm so happy that I totally ignored that and witnessed them being super cute together.. actually, no.. they were beyond cute.. and literally everyone fell in love with them.. 

Thank you Lee and Dawn for being beyond bloody awesome..

We then made our way down to Bristol where the incredibly gorgeous Naomi and Glen made it pretty much impossible to not take a million photos.. maaaaan.. red hair is pretty much my fave.. how friggin' gorgeous!?!...

 

 We ended the week down in London with our biggest group yet.  Blanka and Neil joined us for the afternoon and shit me they were good.. Blanka never stopped laughing and they both were killing it.. also I'd like to order a pair of Blanka's legs for me if that's at all possible? 

Again I managed to be pretty awful at taking any photos of what was happening over the week so the homies very kindly offered to share some of their images from the three days.. it's so lovely to look over these and actually take the experience in as a whole.. it really was the most incredible week and we met so many truly amazing people..

A huge thank you to Linzie Russo, Photos by Zoe, Heart Full Of Tea, Millie Benbow, Martina Capodanno, Alexa Loy, Jen Owens Images and Brighton Photo for kindly letting me share your beautiful images..

I also want to say a huge thank you to all the lovely peeps that contributed to the AMAZING goodie bags! Folio Albums, Fotofafa, Kelly Moore and Everybody Smile were such a big part of this family too.. and the most amazing venues.. Belt Craft Studios in London.. Studio 128 in Edinburgh and The Paintworks in Bristol..

You can also have a look at what some of the homies thought about their time with us..
Martina Capodanno
Paula Broome Photography
Alexa Loy Dent
Elizabeth Armitage Photography
Little Rays
Heart Full Of Tea
Mack Photography
Kanashay Photography
Lydia Stamps Photography
Eden Photography
Kytography


..and now, I'll be honest.. after spending a week with the most amazing people, concentrating on what's really important and coming away feeling stupidly inspired.. I've got the bug.  So.. we're planing MORE!!!!.. and on Monday (3rd Dec) we'll let you know where and when.. :)

It would be absolutely bloody amazing to see you there...

Welcome Home Workshop film

I really don't know where to start with this little film of the Welcome Home workshop...

 ..apart from..

 ..Shutterbox Films we ABSOLUTELY BLOODY ADORE you guys...

 


I LOVE it.. I LOVE it.. I LOVE it... and have lost count the number of times I've watched it.  Thank you guys from the bottom of our hearts.. it brings back a million and one wonderful memories of such an amazing day... :)

If you're interested in coming on the next Welcome Home Workshop then make sure you subscribe to the mailing list as we've got some exciting news coming very soon!!!!!!