The Power of a Professional Headshot

Boost Your Professional Identity: A polished headshot acts as your career’s visual handshake. It shows that you are invested in your professional persona and ready to engage in serious business.
Sets You Apart from the Competition: In a stack of job applications or a LinkedIn feed, a professional headshot can be the difference between getting noticed and getting overlooked.
Builds Confidence: Knowing you have a great photo can boost your confidence, reflecting positively in your professional interactions and interviews.
Optimizes Your Online Profiles: Whether it’s LinkedIn, a corporate directory, or your personal blog, a professional headshot ensures you look the part, matching the professional excellence you bring to your role.
Why Attend Our Headshot Marathon Event?

Lux Summit Studio’s Headshot Marathon event is the perfect opportunity to get a professional headshot quickly and efficiently. Here’s why you should consider joining:

Speed and Simplicity: We know time is a precious commodity. Our event is structured to deliver maximum quality with minimum demand on your schedule.

Affordable Excellence: Enjoy the top-notch quality of Lux Summit Studio’s photography at a special event price. This is an investment in your professional future that won’t break the bank.

Enhance Your Network: Our event is also a great place to connect with other professionals from various fields, expanding your professional network.

Ready to take your professional image to the next level? Join us at the Headshot Marathon event hosted by Lux Summit Studio. Secure your spot today and ensure your first impression is not just good, but great. For more information and to register, visit our website or get in touch with us directly. Elevate your professional look with Lux Summit Studio and watch your career soar!

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In July we had the honor of helping Bathurst Family Therapy tell the story of their dynamic and life-changing couple’s retreat on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii through destination branding photography.

As with every session we provide for our clients, we didn’t pick up our cameras until we sat down with owners and founders Dr. Stephanie and her partner in work and life, Alex, in order to fully understand what’s most important to them in communicating their message. 

Together we collaborated to devise a photography session experience that would create a comprehensive portfolio of imagery featuring the inspiring surrounding landscape of Hawaii. This would set the stage for showing the deep, rejuvenating connection experienced by every couple who says yes to the great adventure of a couples retreat with Bathurst Family Therapy.

Here’s what Dr. Stephanie had to say about her experience working with Lux Summit Studio as her official Personal Branding Photography Provider. 

“The personalized care and detailed attention received from Lux Summit Studios always surpasses my expectations. Kristen and Dave have been my core photographers for family photos, professional portraits, and formal business branding. Each day of shooting is preceded with a well-organized agenda and communication of timeline so that I could come prepared with my wardrobe changes prepped and an idea of how the shoot will go.”

Everything was streamlined, easy, and playful. Both Kristen and Dave have such compassionate and playful demeanors that whether you want to talk throughout the process or be calm in a state of inner peace, you feel at ease with them.

Each with their unique photography specialties and styles, Kristen and Dave both bring invaluable contributions to the session to create a comprehensive creative experience that shines through in the personalized, expressive and interesting portraits that they process for you. 

My professional portraits have been used for ad development, website profiling and to increase general professionalism in media statements. I receive much positive feedback on these profile images and happily refer colleagues to Lux Summit Studio whenever I get the opportunity. My business branding photoshoot is being used to rebuild my entire website for enhanced visibility. 

I [Dr. Stephanie Bathurst] continue to work with Kristen and Dave as my core photographers. They are worth it. The experience and product that they offer simply cannot be compared.

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Live Life Lux Events are an opportunity to create space for joy and fun, to stop and reflect.

Through Live Life Lux events we can connect deeply with this one precious life with great intention.

Our first event was a BYOB event at Rosebridge Farm & Sanctuary in Montgomery County, PA. Rosebridge is a self-ascribed “hidden piece of paradise, as it is home to many rescued animals.” They are 100% correct about that. They offer in-person bottle feeding and snuggle animal husbandry sessions and so much more. This truly is a magical place nestled in suburban Montgomery County, right outside of Philadelphia.

One of our Live Life Lux events included a farm tour and piglets!

Lux Summit Studio, in line with our Live Life Lux philosophy, hosted an event which included baby goat snuggles, calf feeding, piglet pets, and a farm tour. The evening concluded sipping wine with the goats while the piglets were put to bed and the rescue camels (you heard me right) settled in for the night.

We were so grateful to be surrounded by familiar faces of past clients and friends as well as fresh faces.

The very first Live Life Lux event was a huge hit. We were so grateful to be surrounded by familiar faces of past clients and friends (like Maria, founder of Life Foundation, and Liz Italia, Cat behaviorist and owner of Liz’s Kitty Boot Camp) as well as fresh faces. Mark your calendars for September 15th when we’ll host another Live Life Lux event returning to Rosebridge Farm for more rescue animal therapy.

Check out the official behind-the-scenes video from our very first Live Life Lux event at Rosebridge Farm.

Caution: Contents of this video may melt your heart.

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Live Life Lux:

Perspectives From Philadelphia Entrepreneur, Photographer, Author and Speaker Kristen Kidd

The importance of joy and fun in life can easily be lost in our hectic daily living. Prioritizing joy and fun in our adulthood can feel frivolous. In the midst of a never-ending to do list, it’s the first thing to drop off. We wonder, “How could I possibly go for a hike right now? How could I join that club or take that class or go on that vacation?” Sometimes we take it a step further. We label the desires of our hearts as selfish. Surmising that so many around us need so much from us, we couldn’t possibly divert precious resources for our own joy. We can’t “afford” to prioritize our own joy, let alone fun. What science is teaching us (and our inner voice of our highest self, if we listen) is that we can’t afford not to make joy and fun a priority. It is essential to being our best self, living our best life, and doing the best for ourselves, our loved ones, and the world around us.

As Simon Sinek says, “Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of use to anyone else.” 

“With joy your don’t have to put on a happy face.

You can be joyful in the midst of the toughest situations.” – Neal Samudre 

It’s important to differentiate between joy and happiness. Joy is an embodiment and state of being that transcends a feeling. Whereas happiness is a feeling. In a fantastic article in Medium by Neal Samudre, cofounder of Enjoyco and therapist specializing in joy, he differentiates happiness and joy this way, “Happiness is a fleeting emotion based on external circumstances…But joy is an internal positivity that’s connected to hope. It’s the feeling that everything will turn out okay. With joy, you don’t have to put on a happy face. You can be joyful in the midst of the toughest situations.”  

Joy can help ward off the daily grinds to our well-being.

In that same article, Neal shares three reasons joy is essential to our lives. He qualifies each reason with scientific evidence. These reasons include the fact that joy makes us resilient and resistant. He explains, “If resilience is about bouncing back from disturbances then resistance is about being immune to disturbances.”

Of course, we will experience devastation in our lives, but joy can help ward off the daily grinds to our well-being and help us heal when challenges do come our way. Neal shares the third reason joy is essential is because it makes us healthy. Citing research indicating that one of two reasons life expectancy dropped in 2018 was despair and research linking laughter and high-quality relationships to longevity. 

Cultivating a practice of fun can feel like a whole other level of self-absorption. In the face of continual global and personal devastation, who would be so entitled as to make fun a priority? Writer Jack Gilbert answered this best in his poem, A Brief For The Defence,

“If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,

we lessen the importance of their deprivation.

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,

but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have

the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless

furnace of this world. To make injustice the only 

measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”

Jack Gilbert

In the article How Having Fun Makes You Healthier And Smarter, Outside magazine makes an argument for prioritizing fun citing research that shows playful adults live happier, more satisfying, and healthier lives. As if that weren’t enough, studies have shown that the more you laugh, the longer you’ll live. 

Joy and fun, like every way of being, is a practice.

It takes time, intention, and other resources to cultivate and maintain.

Did you know humor can ­reduce stress-related hormones that suppress the immune system? Outside magazine’s article also shares that when we have fun “the body releases the feel-good neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, which leads to elevated mood and a healthier cell-proliferation process. Hormonal balance is crucial for our immune system’s strength and our ability to recover after strenuous athletic activity, as is cell growth, which helps the kidneys, lungs, and other organs regulate body functions. Meanwhile, some studies suggest that serotonin released by enjoyable activities could help promote neurogenesis, or cell growth in the brain.”

So, what brings you joy? Joy and fun, like every way of being, is a practice. It takes time, intention, and other resources to cultivate and maintain. It’s not something that we can phone in or squeeze into our schedules. It starts with a choice and choosing over and over again. We look for joyful moments big and small every day. Talk about it and share it with loved ones.  We’re honest with ourselves about what we want and choose to embrace the desires of our hearts. Then, we create time and space to plan the bigger joyful experiences. Chunking down the bigger pursuits into manageable steps. Even the act of clearing space for big acts of joy and making a baby step towards them is life-changing.

One small step at a time, one choice at a time we begin to see joy show up in our lives and become an indelible part of who we are. 

Family, pet, branding, and boudoir photo experiences are one way our clients choose joy. They celebrate the love of family (furry or human), their own personal strength and resilience through their boudoir experience, or the joy of their career achievements and goals through branding and headshot photography.  

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