Jaimié Birtel's photography blog
AI Headshots Aren’t Really Free…4 Ways It’ll Cost You
While AI headshots seem like a quick, budget-friendly shortcut, they come with hidden risks that can compromise your professional brand. Let’s capture your authentic story instead—book your professional headshot session with me right here in Mercer Island.
The Legal and Ethical Implications of AI in Photography: Why Authenticity Still Matters
AI is undeniably changing the photography industry, but it isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Yes, there are AI tools that allow you to generate images with a few clicks of the keyboard, and at a lower financial cost than real photography, but it still has its drawbacks. AI is great but you will still need a photographer here in Mercer Island
Defining Your Year
If you’re on my mailing list, you might’ve seen my latest newsletter about being intentional about how you want your new year to go. Everywhere you look, the beginning of the year is a time when there’s so much messaging around renewing your ambition and giving it your all this year. We see it when it comes for fitness and New Years resolutions, when it comes to business and careers, when it comes to financial goals…and if you’ve tried in the past to do that New Years “give it your all,” and you’re like most of us, it was a week or two into January when you realized that that’s not realistic.
None of us were made to do it all, and that’s why this year, I’m setting my intention to one word: acceptance. Not every year can be the year that my business reaches new heights or the year that our vision boards come to life, and that’s okay!

