The summer is usually a great time of creative exploration for me as a photographer, a time to take a deep breath and relax into wearing a different hat! I am so busy during the school year, being a teacher (wife, mother, friend, daughter, photographer etc) that I don’t have as much time to be creative. So now that summer is here, I am struggling to catch a breath and really breathe!
Struggling because I want to be spending more time behind the lens.
Struggling to find time to update my blog and website.
Struggling to scrap together time to enjoy the summer and my time at home with my new little bundle of joy!!
It has been difficult to find time to sit in one place for very long… I suppose that having 4 kids to care for and entertain may have something to do with it?? ;0)
Last year was so much fun for me as an artist. I didn’t do much that was radically different, I just settled into the roll of being a “part-time” photographer and allowed myself to really just enjoy shooting for the pleasure of shooting. I didn’t much care if I was hired and paid… and I certainly tried to not feel guilty if I didn’t pick up my camera for a week. I was so very blessed to have such great families contact me, and allow me to capture their beautiful lives. As I started to look back over the files of the shoots that I did last year, in an effort to update my portfolio and website, something really great happened.
I noticed that my art has evolved.
I thought that the next time that happened, it would have to be a conscious effort. But as I reflected back on the year I realized that I just started to really relax behind the lens. I am settling into my craft, and becoming more and more confident in shooting what I like. Now don’t get me wrong, I always listen to my clients and try to capture the particular images that they request, but I also shoot for me… and if I may admit… I have had an absolute BLAST doing it. I didn’t work a ton… but I worked more than the previous year… and it didn’t stress me out.
If you check back on the blog and see a ton of pictures of my real life… my family… my newborn bundle of joy… then just know that I am just simply enjoying my craft! If people like what I do and want their real life captured forever, by someone who sees real life and lives real life… than great! But if I don’t work a ton… by that I mean get paid… then that is just fine with me! That means more time to take pictures and focus on my own family. That means it may take me longer to get that new camera or lens. That may mean that I will have time to read a good book, or organize my own personal images. I will enjoy whatever life hands to me.
Surprisingly, I have really enjoyed just sorta curling up into my turtle shell, pulling out of the world of professional photography a bit and just enjoying the end of my pregnancy and now my crazy hectic life… with moments of complete bliss as my newborn sleeps in my exhausted arms.
I will be working on updating my blog, now that I have updated to PP3 and will be playing with some of the new features. I am also planning to update the images on my website, and maybe even explore some new branding…. we’ll see how far I get.
Check back to see what’s new!!
I just started poring over the images from this beautiful family of 5! This is the second time that I’ve photographed these 
