Lessons from the field: How assisting a wedding photographer helped me evolve as a landscape photographer

Three years ago I had technically launched my photography business, but was still working my other non-photography jobs. While I wanted to move forward with my own business, I hadn’t fully committed to the freelance life yet. I was mostly doing landscape work and dabbling in other genres but didn’t have a clear path in front of me. 

One day I saw that a local wedding and portrait photographer was looking to hire an assistant for the summer. Karen McKinnon was (and still is) the best known photographer in town, and her post intrigued me immediately.