What I do and Why I do it

Today is Thursday... PAYDAY..
This weekend I'm going to shoot a small wedding... an outside wedding at that. If you're not from the South you really want understand where I'm going with that, but I'm sure most of you will. It's going to be HOT.... Over and over I've asked myself why go thru this... It's sure not for the money... My little weddings now are pretty much for the fun of it... Each wedding I have a chance to be a part of a happy time and to capture this for the couple. Oh I'm sure there's those out there that would say 'well you make nothing because your pictures are nothing" ... here's where you would be wrong... I'm by no way a Hanson Fong but yet I feel like my stuff can stand it's own. I feel like the key is to make people happy... go into the shoot with the idea that you're going to have a good time and that you're going to make others have a good time. Above all learn something from the shoot... On each shoot I try to learn something new. It's my goal to someday to have my very own little studio. A place where I can show off my work...whether it's my art pictures, my brides, babies, or even my bird shoots. I'm very blessed to have two studios that ask me to help shoot wedding with... and again it's my dream to ask them to help me some day.

Suprise

It was a slow day at work today and on the way home I was thinking about going to the coffee shop camera meeting tonight. Each month have a contest and tonight the photo we enter must start with the letter "I". That's what I was thinking about on the way home.

The suprise was on the table when I got home. Last week I went to the PPMA Convention, in Moblie, Al and signed up for a door prize and never thought anymore about it. Well I had a box waiting on me from SHOWCASE with a card telling me my name had been pulled for a thinkTank Trim Changer... it's not bigger enought to put a lot of gear in, but I'll find some use for it.

What's in a date

Today will mark my first entry to this blog. Will I remember this date 31 years from today as I remembered almost to the second every move I made 31 years ago yesterday? Something tells me that this morning will be lost as so many before has been lost.

Yesterday was one of those days you remember for a lot of reasons... I was young, I had no idea what turns my life would take, it was a day to be happy. It was the day I got married. I was on top of the world...

At the age of 21, I thought I had the answer to all the questions. As it turns out I didn't even have a clue to what the questions were.

We had our first little girl 1 1/2 years later. It was hard living in a one bed room apt and with me working the midnight shift. We made it. I guess that's the one thing about being young... you can do anything.

Looking back from where I sit this morning.... never would I have dreamed that I would be sitting here writting this alone. For the past 7 years I've been here... my daughers coming to live with me off and on. 31 years ago I woke up with a new bride... this morning I woke up to an empty house.... no longer a home, but just a place to try to rest and find comfort. The sounds of laughter are heard only in my memories.

Cherish each day.....