I did it. It’s official. Or I guess I should say I’M official! I am a proud small business owner!!! I have a business license, Federal Tax ID, Business Bank Account, and most importantly, a BLOG! Life. Now Photography is alive! I know, it’s not the blog that makes me official. But the blog is the place where I will connect with my clients. And friends. Because how can you capture intimate, meaningful images of people and not end up being friends, right?!?
I’ve been on this photography journey for quite some time now. I’ve been following other inspirational photographers, practicing on my kiddos, friends and family and having long heart-to-hearts with my husband, Shawn, about all of this. And I feel it’s time. Time to just GO, as Jodie Allen and many others would say. Time to stop listening to those voices in my head whose only purpose is to keep me from doing what I love. To make me doubt myself and instill fear in me. I mean, really, people. What’s the worst that can happen? Nobody hires me? I’ll still know that I went for it, and I’ll still have a great blog where I can document my family’s life. After all, I already took the hardest step in following this dream. I QUIT MY DAY JOB. The totally safe, secure one that was paying me almost $90,000 a year (yeah, I said it) to compromise who I was and sucked every ounce of life out of me on a daily basis (for 9 years, people!).
So I’m not scared. Because there is one thing I know for sure (not to get all Oprah on you): I love photography and I will be doing it until the day I die. And the more I do it, the better I will get. So if I average one session a month for the rest of my life, I will be happy with that. Because I will be doing what I love. I will be a part of documenting someone’s life. For later. Because, sadly, we all forget things. Important things. But through photography, we are able to look back on our life and remember the things that are important to us NOW. Important to us TODAY. Things like how your baby had such good thigh chub that you just wanted to nibble on it. Just a little. Or how it’s possible that she once fit into the nook of your elbow. How your belly button looked when it popped out at the end of your pregnancy. Or how your 20-year-old son STILL gets that same look on his face when he is focusing really hard on something (you have a picture of him with that same look on his face when he first learned how to tie his shoes!) .
So here I go. I’m taking the steps necessary to make this happen. I have a logo that is in the works and have a lot to think about as it relates to product offerings, etc. I was going to wait to put the word out about LNP until I had all of that figured out. Obviously I changed my mind! So while I’m not “open for business” yet, I am open to sharing. Over the next several months my business will be developing into something I can be proud to call my own. And I plan on documenting that process here. So add me to your reader, or subscribe to my feed above. Or just bookmark this site so that you can see all the updates I’ll be making to this site. Because you’re gonna wanna follow this. For all I know, this may be a train wreck! And everyone loves a good train wreck, right? If they didn’t, all those “Housewives” would’ve been booted off the air a long time ago (not that I watch that stuff…honest).
And because a post isn’t a post without a picture, here is one SOOC (straight out of camera) that I just love of my 2-year-old, Max:
How cute is that kid?!?
Wendy