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Virtual Learning Tips for Successful Students

We are entering a new era. This year our children are being taught by screens… With a pandemic raging, educators throughout the world assessed the possibilities of how to move forward educating our youth in such an uncertain time. A variety of solutions have been implemented throughout the US. many schools opened only to close...

COVID Policies

We understand our planned activities are potentially dangerous and involve the risk of serious illness, injury and/or death. We acknowledge  the Covid-19 virus and its ability to be transferred from person to person contact. We are also aware that any person may carry the virus and be asymptomatic. We understand that Adrienne Maples PhotoStudios (hereinafter...

The Art of Photographing Children

The Art of Photographing Children Half-way through, she told me how she’d thought about canceling.. or pushing back her family photo session. ‘It never feels like the ‘right’ time? Ya know?’ You want to feel ‘less-frumpy’ and less like the ‘work-from-home-I’ve-gained-a-few-pounds-since-quarantine– look. Trust me, I understand! My first session back since quarantine, provided every reminder...

Mother’s Day FREE Printables

My love language is acts of service… Words of affirmation are important to me as well but there is nothing better than a little extra help when I’m not expecting it. But my daughter is nine and ‘cleaning up after herself’ is a hard won battle. But you wanna know something?! Lately my daughter is...

Financial Aid for Small Businesses & Photographers

Where do I even start? This is the question I’m hearing from small business owners from every industry. And while I am by no means and expert on this particular issue, I’ve run a successful small business for more than 16 years. And I don’t intend on giving up now! So while the service industry...

The Secret About my Tattoo

It’s no joke! I got my first tattoo on April Fool’s Day. While it sounds a little odd, it wasn’t a decision I made lightly. It was to mark a significant moment in my life. This would be my reminder. Something I would see each and every time I picked up my camera. A reminder...

Social Distancing isn’t ‘normal’ but it’s our NOW.

Social Distancing has brought about a ‘new’ NOT normal as we face the global pandemic of 2020. It’s brought fear and doubt into every home throughout the civilized world. We are living a very surreal experience. But one that will remain part of our story. The things we do in the coming months will determine...

Preparing to Slow down as a Small Business

Preparing for the unknown causes anxiety and fear. And fear makes people do crazy things. We are in early days of a global pandemic… as I type this it feels surreal. Which is perhaps why so many people aren’t heeding the warnings in order to slow this thing down. Over the weekend the mayor of...

Surviving Catastrophe, what you can do now-

Do you remember the story of the little boy who cried wolf? Certainly you do- the little boy cries WOLF, WOLF… but there is no wolf. A second time, he cries: WOLF WOLF WOLF!! Still there is no wolf. A third and final time he cries- WOLF WOLF… And a wolf eats him up. The...

The BEST WORST week of my life; the week gramma died

Today was her birthday. December the 7th, on her last birthday she turned 90. I couldn’t return home last year and it was her last birthday… For the first time since her death, she came alive in my dreams last night. She was the size of a child and we each took turns holding her...

About

the Photographer

Adrienne Maples

 

Kansas City photographer, Adrienne Maples, weaves together powerful narratives with her photographs to create mood and evoke emotion.

 

She's an AI enthusiast, passionate about teaching others how to use technology responsibly for the greater good. Known for her 'spunk & pizazz', she directs from behind her camera, finding impromptu designing to transform mediocrity into the extraordinary.

 

She a board member of AIGA and KCAC. As a committee member of KCDW, she organized the 2024 talks: The A.I. Asset, Creator as Curator.

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