{"id":83288,"date":"2025-12-14T19:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/83288\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:11:17","slug":"fort-lauderdale-husband-and-wife-turn-shared-passion-for-photography-into-shared-career-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/83288\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale husband and wife turn shared passion for photography into shared career, small business"},"content":{"rendered":"

We live in a world where everyone can be a photographer with their phone in hand, snapping selfies left and right. But one husband-and-wife duo is using their years of experience to redefine what it means to turn a shared passion into a shared career.<\/p>\n

At Glass & Pen Studios<\/a> in Fort Lauderdale, attention to detail is key. The “glass” is Frank Leon, behind the lens. And “pen” is Damarys Leon, behind the editing. <\/p>\n

“I like to keep it a little natural,” Damarys Leon said. <\/p>\n

The couple said it’s not for everyone. <\/p>\n

“It’s mostly hard when we disagree with each other, but it also helps us a couple you know, [when] we learn how to compromise,” Damarys said. <\/p>\n

“I don’t know, we’ve done it for so long that it’s great, it’s fun,” Frank said. <\/p>\n

That’s with the added stress of running a small business in a tough economy. <\/p>\n

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration<\/a>, between March 2023 and March 2024, 111,928 Florida establishments opened and 91,450 closed. <\/p>\n

As Fort Lauderdale sees a development boom, Frank said it’s helped bring new eyes to the Thrive Art District, where their studio is located. <\/p>\n

“A photography studio is kind of a hard thing to keep going, it’s tough, and people don’t understand,” Frank said. “I’ve had a lot of people ask me, ‘Should I start a studio?’ I’m like, ‘Probably not, but you should try anyway.’ Why not? I did.”<\/p>\n

The couple uses social media and behind-the-scenes content to help draw clients in. <\/p>\n

“I think it shows a little bit of our personality, you know, so they know who is actually going to be working with them, shooting with them,” Damarys said. “I think it helps.”<\/p>\n

You can check out Glass & Pen Studios and other small businesses in the Thrive Art District<\/a> during the monthly art walk, the last Saturday of every month from 6-10 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We live in a world where everyone can be a photographer with their phone in hand, snapping selfies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3087,506,249,251,250,6652],"class_list":["post-83288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-art","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}