It’s always exciting for me to take stock of where I am in the present and realize how far I’ve come since starting my business. I enjoy looking back over all the pictures and remembering all the people I’ve met through living my dream, and I find it utterly amazing. So many people I never would have had contact with otherwise, and I count my blessings to have been invited into their life through a shared appreciation for my photography. I am so humbled thinking on being invited to witness one of the most important days of their lives! It really is amazing and I send so many thanks to each and every one of them (and hope to see them all again soon, whether for maternity, newborn or family portraits!)
Equally exciting as looking at where I am in the present, is looking to the future. Through those special goggles, the vision is half-dream, half-reality; I see everything I have scheduled for the 18 months ahead, and also everything I WANT to have scheduled. All the photos I want to have featured. All the potential and open space for amazing things to happen!
I think forward to where I might build, expand, improve, go bigger; and also things I could outsource or cut out altogether to make my life easier and allow myself the time for doing what I am truly passionate about. A studio space has really been occupying my mind lately, but there are a lot of personal things up in the air right now and I am in a bit of a limbo status. By summer’s end, though, I should be able to finally straighten my line of little ducks and make major plans to propel myself forward and really rock the wedding photography industry. Balancing this craft and my home life hasn’t been easy, but I started with no knowledge of how to really run a business at all but knew this was what I wanted. So I just jumped headfirst. And while it’s been difficult, and I wouldn’t have survived it without the support of some very amazing people, especially my fantastic boyfriend Jeremy and the fantastic Ms. Alice Renn, I have scraped through it with grace and tenacity blessed to me by my maker and have grown sevenfold since I started this endeavor thanks to all my fantastic clients and those special few family members (and friends whom I consider family) who lent words of wisdom and encouragement, babysitting skills, and even cold hard cash so that I could keep pushing in the direction of this dream. I might be the one taking the photos, but they are the ones that deserve all the credit!
Looking forward, I see all the amazing couples that I get to work with, and share in their beautiful love stories. I can’t get enough of it, and am really excited to start 2011′s wedding season this weekend! Through my Future-Vision Goggles I see myself about to plunge into one HECK of an awesome year!
xo to those who have repeatedly offered their undying support. I wouldn’t be here without you!
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