*Stretching Fingers*
What a difference a year makes!
I don't usually get personal, but I'm going to get personal in this post. (which makes me nervous). Why? Because I'm human - and I recently realized it.
My personality could be described as energetic and outgoing. I was that person to charge through anything. Put a challenge in front of me and I'll conquer it. I'll work 18 hours a day, seven days a week for years on end. Who needs sleep? Not me! Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking got me through a lot.
Through the last 12-14 months, life has seen to it that I learned some hard lessons that has taught me that I need to watch out for myself. I now feel like a quiet introvert, managing a quieter life out of necessity. If you think about chemistry - if you pour enough acid on something it changes it.
Over the last year and a bit, but concentrating on last Spring, life caught up to me and delivered one major blow after another, generated from different directions. It took a series of things that finally brought me to my knees. They just kept coming and coming. It was high time I learned I'm not immune to life's lessons.
I've had to slow down - waaay down compared to my former pace.
I will be scaling back from my former pace of business, and will be taking on fewer weddings for the next little while.
This all came at a time when I should be celebrating my tenth year in business and I should be celebrating earning my MPA (Master of Photographic Arts) designation in a few months.
Hiccups or crossroads like this can be an opportunity. A big opportunity for growth, change and renewal but it requires that I pause and take a breath and decide in which direction to find the opportunity. I love being the age that I am. There is a wisdom that comes with it. (I'm sure all you forty-plusses out there are agreeing with me.) It is good to refocus on those close to me, appreciate those who are looking out for me, and judiciously sift through my life keeping what needs to be kept and discarding what needs to be discarded. I have been through many difficult things in my experience, but not a string of them all at once. Just....another....learning....experience.....right?
I love my clients. I have been so lucky of the past ten years that brides and grooms that find me to be their photographer are top notch people - like AMAZING people.
I have let my blogging lapse, but I am still here. I'm still dreaming of the next award-winning wedding image I want to create. I'm still designing albums. I'm still thinking about white dresses and veils and what I can do with them against glorious skies or breathtaking landscapes. I'm just giving myself a pause or a slower pace - it is a difficult thing for someone like me to learn how to do. I am already beginning to feel renewed after the hardship of this Spring. I will try to check in more often and share more of my summer wedding images.
Love to you all.
What a difference a year makes!
I don't usually get personal, but I'm going to get personal in this post. (which makes me nervous). Why? Because I'm human - and I recently realized it.
My personality could be described as energetic and outgoing. I was that person to charge through anything. Put a challenge in front of me and I'll conquer it. I'll work 18 hours a day, seven days a week for years on end. Who needs sleep? Not me! Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking got me through a lot.
Through the last 12-14 months, life has seen to it that I learned some hard lessons that has taught me that I need to watch out for myself. I now feel like a quiet introvert, managing a quieter life out of necessity. If you think about chemistry - if you pour enough acid on something it changes it.
Over the last year and a bit, but concentrating on last Spring, life caught up to me and delivered one major blow after another, generated from different directions. It took a series of things that finally brought me to my knees. They just kept coming and coming. It was high time I learned I'm not immune to life's lessons.
I've had to slow down - waaay down compared to my former pace.
I will be scaling back from my former pace of business, and will be taking on fewer weddings for the next little while.
This all came at a time when I should be celebrating my tenth year in business and I should be celebrating earning my MPA (Master of Photographic Arts) designation in a few months.
Hiccups or crossroads like this can be an opportunity. A big opportunity for growth, change and renewal but it requires that I pause and take a breath and decide in which direction to find the opportunity. I love being the age that I am. There is a wisdom that comes with it. (I'm sure all you forty-plusses out there are agreeing with me.) It is good to refocus on those close to me, appreciate those who are looking out for me, and judiciously sift through my life keeping what needs to be kept and discarding what needs to be discarded. I have been through many difficult things in my experience, but not a string of them all at once. Just....another....learning....experience.....right?
I love my clients. I have been so lucky of the past ten years that brides and grooms that find me to be their photographer are top notch people - like AMAZING people.
I have let my blogging lapse, but I am still here. I'm still dreaming of the next award-winning wedding image I want to create. I'm still designing albums. I'm still thinking about white dresses and veils and what I can do with them against glorious skies or breathtaking landscapes. I'm just giving myself a pause or a slower pace - it is a difficult thing for someone like me to learn how to do. I am already beginning to feel renewed after the hardship of this Spring. I will try to check in more often and share more of my summer wedding images.
Love to you all.
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