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A photo tells a thousand words and is a compelling way to showcase your product, tell your story and build your brand. But taking shots that are share-worthy can be a tricky business!

Sophie Hansen, founder of My Open Kitchen and Local is Lovely, will teach the basics of food and lifestyle photography from light to composition and angles. Using your mobile phone, she will show you some easy to use editing platforms and apps + how to hashtag, caption and share your photos.

Please bring along what you grow or produce so you can practice. Props will be available but feel free to bring your own.

Ticket includes a morning tea of local produce lovingly prepared by Kandanga Kitchen.

About Sophie Hansen

Sophie moved to Orange, NSW 12 years ago where she lives and manages a holistic deer farm – Mandagery Creek Venison – with her husband Tim and their two children. She studied print journalism at the University of Canberra and followed a career in feature writing for food and lifestyle magazines both in Australia and Italy.

With 20 years’ experience in journalism and food writing, Sophie is now focused on My Open Kitchen; a podcast and e-course designed to give farmers, producers and value-adders the inspiration, skills and confidence they need to use social media to grow their businesses and build supportive communities.

She has authored and photographed a book of recipes and stories, writes and photographs still for her popular blog of the same name Local is Lovely and has just submitted her second cookbook manuscript to a publisher for release in Autumn 2019.

In 2016, Sophie was named the Australian Rural Woman of the Year by the Australian Government’s AgriFutures body, which recognises leadership and a commitment to rural communities. Her podcast My Open Kitchen has been downloaded over 120k times and is now into its third season sponsored by Country Style magazine with the Country Women’s Association NSW signed up to sponsor series four. She is a columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper (The Treechanger) and also organises a calendar of workshops and events (in her country town home) bringing online creatives and social media experts together from around the world together to share, inspire and connect.

PLEASE BOOK VIA EVENTBRITE LINK – Tickets are $60 for FAN members and $90 for non-members.

If food is your business and you are not a member of FAN we definitely recommend becoming one – https://foodagribusiness.org.au/