I receive a lot of questions about my photography, either in DMs or via email. While I do occasionally shoot some blog/social media posts myself, I normally work with a photographer. And for the past 1.5 years, I’ve mostly worked with the food photographer extraordinaire, Tom McGovern.

Tom shoots with a pretty pricey camera (a Canon 5D Mark IV), and to be perfectly candid, I wouldn’t go off and purchase that camera unless you were 100% serious about photography. It’s an incredible piece of equipment, but you don’t need to spend that much in order to produce amazing photos.

I asked Tom what the best camera gear under $100 was — here are some budget-friendly tools that will help you elevate your photography game!
 
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ICYMI, I taught a workshop at The Blog Societies’ Annual conference this past weekend (AKA, #TBScon). Cathy and Jessica did an incredible job putting on this event, and it’s a conference I’ve attended for many years (seriously — look at baby 24-year-old Alicia at this event!)

I had a lot of people email me saying that they couldn’t make this years event, so I wanted to take the time to share a few travel blogging tips from my workshop so that you can become a travel blogging rockstar yourself. Let’s get to it!
 
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