I Love My Job!

There are so many ideas and thoughts roaming around in my head that I can’t seem to get a hold of one. I think it is because our lives seem busier than ever. I never thought that I would be this busy at this stage of my life.

I absolutely love what I do. I love the whole process of photography. I love to learn and take classes to stay current. I love all the different people that come into my studio and know that it’s time to stop time and create a memory. I love helping them beyond simply thinking, “We need a portrait.” And help them take the next step, whether that is talking through clothing ideas, bringing the clothes to the studio and laying them on the couch to discuss, finding a date that works, canceling that date to find a new date, rescheduling because of thunderstorms, finally getting to photograph, waiting for the pre-session jitters to go away and getting into the zone of shooting and the rhythm of being comfortable in front of the camera or even being camera unaware, editing for the very best images, projecting those images and discussing all the possibilities for the best impact, taking great care to edit the image for printing and combining the images for a story, studying the images for retouching and other enhancements, sending the order to the retoucher, sending the order to the lab, sending the order back to the print finisher (who is the same as the retoucher…..and is awesome, I might add….the best in the business, as far as I am concerned) exploring packaging and then watching the faces as they light up with delight. I love the whole process and I love the people that make the process necessary.

Thank you, thank you for a wonderful opportunity to see the beauty in everyone that walks in that door. So don’t wait until the perfect idea comes; instead, come in and we will make the idea perfect. But as my friend Judy said before Kristen’s wedding, “It doesn’t have to be perfect to be perfect.” …..including blogs.