I'm Going For It

With my photography, I love taking landscape pictures. I really enjoy it. It's fun! It's relaxing! It's just calming to me. To go out and take pictures for a living, I want to enjoy what I'm doing. I don't want to be stressed and I sure don't want to start to hate what I'm doing.

With landscapes, I feel nature cooperates. I find the shot and just take it. I don't have to tell it to pose this way or fix any one's hair or wait. Take the shot and move on.

However, my husband said that if I want to make money doing this, I will need to at least take children's portraits. That my friends, is seriously stepping out of my comfort zone. For two reasons:

1. I'm shy. Okay, not shy with children but those children do have parent's. I have a hard time talking to people. I clam up and my heart races. I'm not comfortable being around people I don't know. I'm afraid I'll say something stupid or there will be that awkward silence. Yeah, totally hate that!
2. I don't know if I will have the patience with other people's children. Something about me you don't know, I have a lack of patience. You see, my child is easy to photograph. She's my child. I tell her to pose this way or that way and she will. She's photogenic too. If she don't do what I want, I can say "Get you're butt over here and do as you're told" cause she's my child! :O) With someone else's kid though.....yeah, I don't think that would fly if those same words came out of my mouth. So what do I do?!

Well, I have friends who have kids with a wide variety of personalities. I can practice of them! So, today I was visiting one of my friends. She has a little girl who's a couple years old. Perfect! So I asked her if I could borrow her daughter for a photo session and of course she was all for it.

I also have my BFF's two boys, one that is my daughter's age and the other that is 4 yrs old. They have personalities that will be quite challenging but I am up for it. I'm sure it helps being friend's with the parents though. With this practice time, I will give my friends a CD with copies of the pictures and me with the rights to those pictures for marketing, of course.

I am getting excited about this though. Very nervous though cause I do not want this to become something I dread. If it does, I will have to stop cause my whole thing about taking pictures is the joy I get from it!