I haven't blogged in a bit. I'd love to tell you I had a great excuse but I don't. I would like to find a blogging circle or something,a group of folks to hold me accountable for keeping this thing fresh! I would gladly return the favor! This blog is about me:my life,my photography,my business but it is also about over coming a fear.
When I was younger I sang in choir and acted.I acted in high
school,and with two local theater group afterwards.I taught at a theater
camp. In my early adult life I worked in radio. I was a late-night DJ
and a promotions intern. I worked on the sale floor at Lowes years
latter and was one of the top sales people in our district because I was
well spoken and could sell the customers on the benefits of buying what
ever it was they wanted, may that be mulch,mowers,or microwaves! I have
no issue talking in front of people. I feel like I can get my point
across well with the spoken word, the written word is a whole other
world!
I had teacher after teacher and my parents(who are both very bright
people) tell me if I just tried harder,proof read more, didn't rush,or
studied I would do better. I did try,I prof read multiple times, worked
at a snails pace,and studied regularly and I never got much return from
my time investment. I'll admit by high school I didn't study like I
should or spend the time like I did when I was younger. Why should I, it
had never helped in the past.
Before any one points out that grammar is
in no way tied to dyslexia let me say,I know that, but when you are
discouraged about English and no matter how hard you try you grades
continue to be lacking you quit paying attention and you miss those
finer points.
My inability to communicate via writing turned from a problem in
school to something that hampered me in my work life and turned into
nearly a phobia! The wonder of Facebook helped a little with that.I
wrote,but just little snippets and when well meaning people did point
out my errors, I felt incredibly stupid. Facebook posts don't constitute
quality writing thou! I know I needed more and decided I would start a
blog.
I hope to turn my photography love and small business into a career. I
would love to be able to share the world I see and actually get paid to
do so! It would be a dream to make a living traveling the world seeing
amazing things and being able to capture that in images.I want people
to love what I capture of them enough to put on the walls of their
homes. I want to flip thew a magazine and see one of my images. I want
to pick up a book one day and have every photo in it be my work
Without getting a grip on writing those dreams are out of reach. There
are many wonderful artists out there but the famous ones or even the
ones able to support their family off what they do have to be more than
artists.They have to be able conduct business,marketing,promoting
themselves, communicate with their clients,staff, and outside world
often in writing and sound professional and educated in doing so.
I may
have better quality art then my the person down the road, I may be able
to tell my client face to face all the ways I am the gal for the
job,but in all likelihood my clients first glimpse of me will be in
written form: a flyer,on Facebook, via Twitter,threw email, on my website, or my blog, and if they see a heap of errors it
might leave them thinking I am lazy or simply don't care about the small
details and as a photographer it is all about being active and seeing
the small details! .
Hopefully thew this blog and other forms of public writing I can over come what is holding me back and make my dreams happen! Wanted to share with you a few of my favorite images from the last two years or so. Enjoy!
