- Eckhart Tolle
- Adyashanti
- Byron Katie
- Thich Nhat Hanh
frequently Photographing In..
Aspen Colorado
Los Angeles CA
New York City
About Doug Ellis | Santa Barbara Photographer with 18+ Years Experience
IT DON'T MEAN A CRAP IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SNAP! --DOUG
Because the authenticity and texture of your visuals rests heavily on the presence we cultivate together, I deploy a quiver of embodiment, energetic and psycho-spiritual tools we can deploy to help express your best.
I’ve been blessed to live and work in enriched spiritual and transformational environments, as Esalen’s first Marketing Director, Staff Photographer for Jack Canfield’s Transformational Leadership Council for ten years, and a cover photographer for Spirituality & Health magazine, among many other spiritual and self-help immersions and trainings. My intent is to use what I have learned to fully realize the power of what emerges in our co-created field, and to surprise us with what we find together. My clients rent not only my attention, experience and energy stream but those of all of my ancestors, teachers, guides, helpers, and teachers, and yours as well.
I differ from most Santa Barbara photographers in that my approach to visual story-telling is cross-disciplinary, combining fluency in branding/marketing, somatic coaching, energy and positive psychology and photography to help conscious authors, coaches, healers, teachers and business luminaries express their Truth in the and gather their tribes. Mainly I serve as an Ambassador of Possibility in directing my attention toward magnifying and multiplying what in Buddhism is called Basic Goodness. Basically I am here to evoke and express your divinity and walk away with something to show for it.
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Who is Doug Ellis Anyway?
- Masters in Marketing/PR
- CTI, Hoffman Institute & USM Graduate
- Nine Gates, John Milton + Shambhala Institute Graduate
- Spiritual + Somatic Psychology Training
"EVIDENCE IS THE LOUDEST VOICE."--DR. JOE DISPENZA
Doug Ellis — Santa Barbara Photographer & Visual Storyteller
Portrait photography to me is an alchemical discipline that requires more than just making the subject look good. I aspire to evoke something deeper–your vibrational signature–and to rescue you from two of the greatest business enemies–confusion and obscurity.
It requires a remarkably wide spectrum of skills, from values alignment coaching, to competitive intelligence gathering, SEO education, ad and copy design, creative direction and video storyboarding, to name a few. I see my my headshot and branding photography practice as both a celebration and vindication of that which You Truly Are, a way to stand tall in the marketplace without noise or apology. In my role as professional light bringer I am here to clarify, amplify and reflect the light that unites us all and gift the world with your vibrational signature. Beyond words.
What Is Branding Photography?
Personal brand photography takes that to the next level by leveraging your individual authenticity and trustworthiness in the marketplace–branding photography furthers your cause and mission and acts as a beacon for your right tribe. Using words, pictures, colors, moodboards and storyboards and vignettes showcasing your work we show not only what you do but why and for who. It helps prospects connect the dots and find you. If an offer is a pre-loaded promise, then a brand is the validation or certification of that promise, a series of tenets and beliefs and values that shore it up.
A Being-Based Approach to Writing with Light
I’ve been a bridge-walker and way-shower in roles as diverse as Marketing Director, Webmaster, Health Journalist, Creativity Coach, Retreat/Playshop Leader and Professional Photographer. Nothing brings me more aliveness and joy than seeing my clients artfully and authentically expressed.Through the alchemy of awareness I aspire to elevate portrait photography from visual to healing art. As Alan Cohen wrote, Isness is my business and I cultivate and coax it through movement, breath work, relaxation, multi-sensory experiences, and service delivered with elan and the humility of knowing our vitality is in service of That which sent us. I am here only to be truly helpful to those who will no longer live life on the layaway plan, for whom nothing less than love will do. In an age of AI generated digital content, people will feel and respond to the carbon-based life form difference."YOU SEE..ITS NEITHER PRIDE, NOR GRAVITY BUT LOVE THAT PULLS US BACK DOWN TO THE WORLD. THE SOUL MAKES A THOUSAND CROSSINGS, THE HEART JUST ONE.--JOHN GLENDAY
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