Ashley Jones is the driving force behind Love Not Lost – an organisation supporting people in grief and helping people heal by connecting portrait photographers with families facing a terminal diagnosis. Ashley, through Love Not Lost, is on a mission to revolutionise the way we heal in grief by preserving memories for those they love – at no cost to them. Ashley and her husband have endured this same grief when they lost their beautiful daughter, Skylar. Their friends gifted them a portrait session to help preserve her memories. At the time, Ashley didn’t realise how powerful these photos would become. They gave her a way to hold onto her baby girl. Big thanks to ImagenAI for sponsoring and making this episode possible. If you’d love to have your post-processing after every shoot done for you – in minutes and at super affordable costs (around 5c/image) you need to take a look at ImagenAI. Photo by Sarah Harms Here’s some of what we cover: What is Love Not LostMisconceptions about griefHow Ashley coped with the grief of losing her daughterHow Ashley started her photography businessHow to start a non-profit organizationSourcing funds to run the non-profitBridging the gap between people who wanted to help and the people who are sufferingFinding photographers to volunteer for Love Not LostThings to consider before sending off photographers to familiesThe training each photographer goes through before photographing terminally ill clientsThe booking processPost-processingDiscussing copyrightUsing pain to support other peopleLoving people better through employing diverse photographers What is your big takeaway? Following this interview, I’d love to read your feedback and comments. Was there something from this interview that struck a chord, inspired or motivated you? Will you take any kind of action after hearing what Ashley had to share? As we experience losses throughout our lives, we want people to feel loved and supported. – Ashley Jones Let me know by leaving your thoughts in the comments below. If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask Ashley or if you just want to say thanks for coming on the show, feel free to add them below too. My hope with Love Not Lost is that we can kind of combat the pain cycle in the world by stepping in and really loving people even in the midst of their suffering. – Ashley Jones When we can step in and love people, that’s when the healing happens. – Ashley Jones Links to people, places and things mentioned in this episode: Love Not Lost Website How Can I Love You Better Website Love Not Lost on Facebook Love Not Lost on Instagram Love Not Lost on Twitter Stefanie Finnemore ImagenAI – artificial intelligent photo editing for professional photographers ShootProof WPPI Expo Photo by Tessa Marie Thank you! Thanks again for listening and thanks to Ashley for coming on and experimenting with a new and different format for this photography podcast and for sharing her thoughts, expertise, views and ideas. The thing about grief is that it’s just love in another form. – Ashley Jones Also, big thanks to ImagenAI for sponsoring this episode of the podcast! If you’re looking for the easiest, cheapest, fastest way to replicate yourself in regards to editing your photography, you need to try this service for yourself! The real beauty of this Artificial Intelligent way of editing is it really does learn your editing style and apply it to your files – in literally seconds! It continues to learn as you develop your style, it’s a fraction of the cost of outsourcing to an image editing company or training a VA from any country to do your editing. You need to try this to believe it. When I first heard about ImagenAI, I didn’t think it was going to work. After the free trial, I was blown away. It pretty much nails my editing style and has cut my editing a ton. I highly recommend you give this app a shot. – Anthony Guana If you have any suggestions, comments or questions about this episode, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post, and if you liked the episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post! That’s it for me, hope everything is going well for you in life and photography! Thanks and speak soon Andrew
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