I remember the first picture I ever took. A clone shot where I put myself in the image twice. It took more than a day to complete. I cried a lot out of frustration. I don’t like not knowing how to do something. My husband helped a lot. The amount of times he explained the eraser tool in Photoshop was ridiculous. I remember the first time I posted on social media. I uploaded five pictures. I didn’t know how it…
I talked to a friend the other day about success, and she said that she has been frustrated by how she has always defined success. Her definition was someone who was entrepreneurial, or someone who has clear focus and determination to start something big. I spoke to another friend about success just before that and she said that she feels unsuccessful because she doesn’t have enough money to move out of her parent’s house yet. And even before that, a…
There will be many mistakes and many triumphs that follow when you choose to pursue your passion. You might feel like you’ll never figure out your style… …or feel feel inferior if you use your bathroom light because you can’t figure out how to turn on the fancy one… …or you may give up on lighting completely and take a chance on the midday sun… …you might create your first big print and only then realize all of the editing…
The first time you picked up a camera and clicked the shutter and saw what you created and knew you were hooked, you also knew that you would have to tell your loved ones about your new passion, or at least eventually. For some people this is easy. It is like saying that you had pancakes for breakfast. The people around are fine with it, and it seems normal, like brushing your teeth. But for others the impact of saying…