Progress

If you would have walked up to me a year and a half ago, handed me this photo and told me that I was the one who took it, I would:

1)Laugh at you

2)Tell you that you're full of crap

3)Ask if I could borrow your time machine

I think that in the past month-shoot, even just this past week, my abilities as a photographer have taken leaps and bounds exactly the direction I wanted them to go.  I am finding that each time I release that shutter, I am gaining valuable experience that is CRUCIAL for helping me learn from mistakes and open my eyes to newer and greater possibilities.  I really hope that shots like this one will set me on my way to finally making my photographing a profitable hobby.  I seem to be getting my name around, and deservingly so. I have poured out free shoot after free shoot in hopes that by doing so, I could get my name and skill around to drum up some business.  After almost two years, it seems that this is finally starting to become a reality.  Now, the picture above is not from a paying shoot, just me and my brother driving out to a neat spot and fooling around with my lighting equipment, but its this same sort of thing that could land me a spot in an auto magazine for crying out loud!  Now, I realize that (especially these days) as cameras become more affordable and user friendly, photographers are becoming MUCH more common than, say, 10 years ago.  This means that to get noticed, one has to stand out from the million-and-a-half Jimmys down the street who borrowed their dads' Nikons to take some pictures of their girlfriends and posted them on their facebook.  I know that as far as doing anything professionally, I have only gotten one foot in the water until now, but that is quickly changing.  I know that I'll probably never be a career photographer, but I refuse to leave that possibility out.  God has so richly blessed me with a plethora of incredible abilities, and I hope that at least one of them will lead me somewhere that when I look back on my life 40, 50, 60 years from now, I won't have a single regret.  What that path may be, at this point, only God knows, but I am perfectly okay with that for now.

I know that I can count on one hand the number of people that are going to read this, but it feels good to release and just type whatever and wherever my mind takes me to.  I think I'll try to keep more up-to-date with my blog, so keep a look out, all -6 of you....

Its 20 til 2 in the morning, I should probably get to bed.

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