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Four Years of Photography

Ok, I didn’t get around to making an entry on the 15th.  My wife finally did clamp down on making me pack at least my camera gear so I could take a family photo while I was up there.

I think the entry would have been something like this:

Wow, only four years have passed since I first had the idea that I could become a professional photographer!  It seems like it should at least be a decade.

I have learned so much, and this talent, hobby, and profession has come to basically define me as a person in so many aspects of my life.  It just seems like it has been much more time than that.  Within a month of my idea to try, the idea was no longer an idea.  It was soon a consuming passion.  I wanted to be a professional in every aspect of the word.  I wanted a top quality portfolio, I wanted pricing, policies, a website, a client base.

I started saying I was a professional, meanwhile I was working hard to become one.  I laugh at how little I knew, and at the trials and triumphs that have brought me to where I am.  I hope the next four years are great as well.  Except I hope that there are more triumphs and minimal trials.