Your Personal Branding Photographer
What Does an Experienced Branding or Portrait Photographer Actually Do?
Portrait photography is a very specific discipline that requires more than just making flattering pictures of your subject. It means solving real business communication problems and saving you from the greatest business enemy..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 a celebration and vindication of that which You Truly Are, a way to stand tall in the marketplace in your vibrational signature without apology or explanation. In my role as professional light bringer and essence doula I am here to clarify , amplify and reflect the light that unites us all and gift the world with your vibrational signature. Beyond words.
Portrait Photographer–Inside & Out
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 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, multisensory 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 robo content, people will feel and respond to the difference.
IT DON'T MEAN CRAP IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SNAP! --DOUG
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. To read what my clients think about the experience, please see the doug ellis client reviews and testimonials page.Â
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.
- Masters in Marketing/PR
- ALM, CTI + Hoffman Graduate
- Nine Gates + Shambhala Institute Graduate
- Spiritual + Somatic Psychology Training
"EVIDENCE IS THE LOUDEST VOICE."--DR. JOE DISPENZA
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
Canon
Fujifilm
Profoto
- GRIT
- GRACE
- COMEBACKS
- GIVEBACKS
Authors, Coaches Speakers, Healers, Teachers
Cause-Driven Binistries
Big Oil, Pharma And Defense
- Eckhart Tolle
- Adyashanti
- Byron Katie
- Thich Nhat Hanh