No, it's just the beginning

Here's the kick off! It's time to get moving now, boy. I am open for business! Well, I've been open for business for a while now, but NOW I'm serious! I have spent a massive amount of time researching, b/c I understand that it doesn't take just good pictures to successfully run a photography business.

How amazing that there are so many awesome photographers out there willing to share their deepest, darkest secrets to me! And everyone else as well. I have become the biggest blog-stalker around and have learned about software, lenses, color, networking.

I want this blog to be a mix of my photography and personal life. Really b/c they're one in the same. All I've read from other professionals in the business is to just be yourself. Honestly, I think I've been a little scared to do that. Myself - well, I'm a bit wacky. Sometimes I don't make sense. Sometimes I think I'm so funny but no one else does. Sometimes I don't know the words to use. And sometimes I try to be oh so clever...and I'm the only one who gets it!

I've had so many questions that I keep asking God. A lot of them pertain to my future. Even if the future means tomorrow...or tonight. You know, that soon. It's difficult to live in the present when you have such huge goals and dreams. How in the heck do I get there? Why can't it happen right now? Is this for real? Am I just a freak with an impossible dream?

Then I was reading in this book called 'Get Up Off Your Knees - Preaching the U2 Catalog." It was actually a quote in the book by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke:

"I want to beg you as much as I can to be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves. The point is to live everything - live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

Nice. You have to start somewhere, and this is it for me. I love photography, and I loooove people (most of the time!) They make me laugh hysterically. Thanks for starting on the journey with me! Hopefully it will be a crazy adventure!

Holla!!