Earlier this year I attended a photography workshop. This workshop wasn’t to help me take prettier pictures (though we did cover that breifly and it most definately helped), it wasn’t for me to learn how to emulate the latest rockstar photographers style and it wasn’t to fill my folio with gorgous images of models in the perfect lighting posed by the teacher so I could shoot it. This workshop was all abour running a sucessful photography business. The hours were long (8am-8pm), it went over three days and I cried…..ALOT! But I came out the other side with a real understanding of what it really took to run a business.

A bit of background on me. I have 4 daughters (9, 8 & twins about to turn 6). My husband is a stay at home dad. j [studios] is our sole source of income. My photography business is our livelyhood. I love photography and I am so lucky that I can work a job that I adore, be flexible enough in my hours so that I can spend time with my kids and bring in enough income to support myself.

At the time of this workshop….I was feeling none of those things. I wasn’t loving photography any more, I was working constantly and my kids never saw me and when they did I was too busy to talk to them or play with them and we were barely making ends meet.

Enter Liana Lehman. Photographer Extroidinaire and business guru. I am usually a pretty harsh critic of …. well pretty much everything …. so take what I am about to say sseriously. Liana CHANGED MY LIFE! She single handedly gave me to tools to get my business running more smoothly and the absolute single best thing she ever did, was give me back to my family. I rave about her everywhere I go and I cried when she left.

So there you have it….photo biz bootcamp….was without a doubt the best workshop or seminar I have ever done. So why am I bringing this up 8 months later? Well I have just got word that Liana is coming back to change more lives. It is looking like more bootcamp workshops will be held in Australia in 2010/2011…and we need your help to decide when and where!

ps – her workshop also helped me loose almost 15kgs….if you weren’t convinced before