My name is Stephanie Rager (formally Natta). I'm 32 years old I'm looking to connect with any businesses that may need a photographer for advertising purposes, media content, and any other business related photography. I graduated from Ferndale Area High School, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 2010. I started my own photography business when I was just 18 and was a professional photographer up until the age of 26. Unfortunately at that time I decided to take a bit of a break from photography. During this time I got married, started a career as an orthodontic assistant (where I still work part time), opened up a little consignment shop / online shop for a year, and my husband and I also welcomed a beautiful little baby girl into our lives. Now I have decided that it is finally time to get back into my photography, and I can honestly say, I have missed it! In 2022, After opening my consignment shop and struggling to get support or even anyone to notice my small local shop I started to realize that the retail / consignment career wasn't for me. I felt like a failure at that time and made the hard decision to close and focus on my new family. I felt like I worked so hard, put so much time and money into my business, and everything went totally unnoticed. I had amazing support from all my consigners family, and some others. But lacked the over all support of the community. I'll be honest, it hurt. The feeling of not being seen by your own community as a local businesses, is not a good feeling. * Now please don't take this as I'm blaming the community, I'm not! * There were many things that I would have done differently as far as on my end, now knowing what I know now I'm going to use that to help other business! I have been there! I have had no support from the community because lack of being noticed and lack of advertising. I can't fix what I did wrong with my own business then, but I can help others! I want to help small business get noticed! Even if it's one new like, one new customer, or one purchase. It helps a local business!So why am I doing most of my business shoots for free? Let's be honest, I'm not going to make the mistake of thinking advertising isnt important ever again! I may give some of my time away and some free photos, but I gain more potential customers and recommendations with every tagged post, mention, like and comment that my free shoots get and so does that other small business! So go support local and help me achieve my goals! Find me on Facebook Stephanie Nicole Rager- Photographer