All My Best Photos Follow This Checklist PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY with Gabrielle Touchette | February 25, 2026 Last week I taught a phone photography workshop to a group of PhD and masters students at the University of Manitoba in their micro diploma program in scientific communication. It was such an inspiration to hear about their pursuits in advanced science and research while I got to share the wonderful world of creative visual communication with them. We discussed how art, emotion and...
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How to use tension and flow to boost your photography skills and creativity PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY with Gabrielle Touchette | February 18, 2026 I believe every good photographer leans into two opposing life forces to deepen skill and passion. One is tension, the other is flow. They may appear to work against each other, but they don't. Together they drive growth. Here's how to strengthen your photography skills while also refining your artistic craft. Leaning into tension To tap into creativity,...
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The soul of photography has always been human LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY Gabrielle Touchette | January 14, 2026 "Wow, who took that photo?" This might be one of the most common questions after someone sees a remarkable photo. It's not "how did they take it?" or "why did they take it?" or "where did they take it?". We as humans want to know who took the photo. We want to know the creator, the person who decided this would be an image worth capturing. When a photo is remarkable, we are...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
👉 My 2025 highlights: what worked and what I’d improve LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY Gabrielle Touchette | January 7, 2026 Happy New Year! I'm back, after taking a couple of weeks off. I did nothing except eat, rest, visit with friends and family and of course, take lots of iPhone photos. :) I also reflected on the past year and all the photography that filled my days in 2025. Most days were for work, some were personal projects, and a lot of it was on-the-go impromptu shoots with my...
2 months ago • 6 min read
Are you winter lazy like me? I've got you covered. LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY Gabrielle Touchette | December 24, 2025 I have a dilemma. I don't like the cold but I love taking winter photos. But you know, I'm ok being a lazy photographer in the winter. Not all the time (I do go outside!) but when it's too cold, I 100% embrace and condone this: taking photos through windows. Now, this is not what I would recommend if your goal is to take the sharpest, clearest, highest quality photo. But...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Dare to take dangerous photos LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY Gabrielle Touchette | December 17, 2025 Posing in front of the Christmas tree. Blowing out birthday cake candles. Holding an award. Sitting at a picnic family gathering, smiling. These are the 4x6 photos I grew up looking at. Photography, in my small world, was reduced to snapshots of posed semi-remarkable moments, captured so our family could remember the memories. As photography should be. But beyond that, my little artistic...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Are you "talking" through your photos? LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY Gabrielle Touchette | December 3, 2025 There’s a lot of communicating happening in photography. Photos are constantly expressing ideas, saying things and bringing thoughts to our attention. The power of visual communication is what surprised me the most after I got deeper into photography. At first I was drawn to photography for the simple fun of creating interesting images. But when I learned that photos can be used to...
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I Upgraded to a Pro iPhone (after saying I wouldn't) LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY Gabrielle Touchette | December 3, 2025 In 2011, I got my first iPhone and started taking photos with it. Over the years, I upgraded from the 5, to the 6, to the 8, to the 13 mini, to the 14 regular. But there's one upgrade I've never done. Until last week. I upgraded to a Pro iPhone. That's right, for the first time ever, I have an iPhone Pro! Unboxing my new iPhone 17 Pro. I was perfectly fine with my iPhone...
3 months ago • 3 min read
A Simple Shift That Makes Every Photographer Feel More Creative LEVEL UP YOUR PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY Gabrielle Touchette | November 26, 2025 The number one thing I hear from new photographers feeling frustrated about their lack of progress is this: "I'm not creative enough." Creativity, like an elusive stroke of luck, seems to be just beyond reach for them. They resign to the fact that they'll never truly be artistic enough to take great photos. They feel doomed to be a subpar photographer with no...
4 months ago • 2 min read