"He used to be a photographer..."

“He used to be a photographer...”  It was such a simple comment.   A client was introducing me to relative of his.  The comment should have hurt, but it didn’t, and that’s the problem.  My wife and I have a great company we own.  It provides us with a living, but it does not provide me any real passion.  I’m a productive entrepreneur, but I’m not an effective artist.  I take great images, but I don’t sell them.  I don’t even share them with much of the world at large.  At least when I used to work in a camera store, I was involved in the photography world each day.  Now photography is just something that I long to do again.  Jon Acuff said “that our dream job isn’t something we discover, it’s usually something we recover”.  It is time to recover my dream job.

I have a great photography website, if I were to build on it, refine it, and promote it.  I have the time to take great images, if I would just make the time to take great images.  I have great cameras, if I were to utilize them daily.  I have an eye to see great images, and I will share that with the world.  It is time to change the “if’s’ into “wills”.

I will commit to the following to further my photography.

·  A weekly blog post.

·  Regular updates to my images on my website.

·  Regular participation in social media (Viewbug, facebook, twitter).

·  A monthly photo outing with local groups.

·  Monthly entries in photo competitions.

Most importantly, I will once again get involved in my photography on a daily basis.  This is a promise I will make to myself, and to those of you that enjoy seeing my images and have encouraged me to get back to doing what I love to do with my life.  Thank you for you support and for your kind words.