September 18th 2025
Take the Stage
A high-impact mini shoot for speakers and workshop leaders.
September18, 2025 1pm
$875
🎤 15 high-impact stills including headshot, branding and action shots (more available by purchase)
🎥 30-second B-roll video with optional voice over.
🎥 9 second website hero banner edit
🎥 vertical instagram reel edit
💡 Custom lighting + professional direction.
💡Bright, White, and modern Event staging
Every speaker knows how impossible it is to get great photos of themselves on stage at an event.
The lighting’s bad, the angles are worse, and you're left without the visuals you need to promote yourself with authority. That’s why we created Take the Stage—a high-impact mini shoot designed specifically for speakers and workshop leaders. With a bright, styled stage set, professional lighting, and a mix of strategic video and still shots, you’ll walk away with a polished library of content you’re proud to use.
how it works
You're not just showing up for a photo shoot—you’re joining a small group of like-minded speakers who are all ready to elevate their brand presence. Together, we’ll create dynamic, high-quality imagery that reflects the professionalism of your message and your work.
Here’s what to expect:
Be the Star—and the Support
When it’s your turn to be in front of the camera, we’ll capture you in action on both a styled stage and a boardroom/workshop set. When it’s not your turn, you’ll serve as part of the audience to help bring energy and realism to your fellow speakers’ shots.
Two Custom Sets
You’ll be featured in two distinct setups:
A bright, styled stage scene for keynote-style shots
A collaborative boardroom or workshop scene to reflect teaching, coaching, or facilitating
hella fun
Timing & Commitment
The session will run approximately 2.5 hours. We have space for six speakers, and each participant must commit to staying for the full session to serve as an audience member for others. It’s a collaborative, supportive, and energizing experience that benefits everyone. And it's going to be hella fun.
Stage-Ready Style, Audience-Approved Extras
Wear something fabulous that makes you feel confident and reflects your personal brand—but please also bring a quick change of clothes to slip into mid photoshoot.
Mic Drop Moments Start with Killer Photos
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About me
I’m Nicole Richard!
Headshot and branding photographer with more experience and education than you can shake a stick at!
My goal is simple. To create photography of you and your business that you not only ADORE, but that creates the success you’ve been hustling so hard to achieve.
Vibrant, joyful, goofy, and with some of the highest work ethic known to womankind , you will find me laughing my way through life creating a community where each of us is valued, respected and loved. Period.
I put people above everything else, try to give back to as many local charities as I can, and cheer on fellow business owners in the Okanagan with conviction.
You are beautiful because you are YOU. Don’t you ever forget it!
“Nicole Richard’s “Take the Stage” shoot was fantastic! I left with amazing headshots, brand photos, corporate shots, b-roll, and speaking reels that perfectly capture my brand. The Wax Pencil Imagery team made the whole experience fun, professional, and easy—I’d do it again in a heartbeat!”
—Tana Plewes
“Nicole, Richard from Wax Pencil is truly amazing and what she captures is magic! The Take the Stage photoshoot has shifted a trajectory for me. I finally have professional photos of myself in a leadership roll and they are upping my game! Nicole. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for uplifting elevating and celebrating not only myself, small and large businesses, but the community at large, and for that each and everyone of us are extremely grateful!”
-Dhorhea Ramanula