Just Going For It

What a weekend! I was able to watch portions of CreativeLIVE’s broadcast of Jasmine Star’s workshop. For those of you who don’t know (Jasmine Star), she’s pretty much the most amazing photographer in California. Hands down the best. If there’s any photographer I admire most, it would be her. So this past weekend, she had the opportunity to host a live workshop and wedding through CreativeLive. Yes, a live wedding! Every photographer’s dream is to follow around the best photographer out there as she shoots a LIVE wedding! You get to see how she shoots, why she shoots certain things, her settings, everything. So if you did not have a chance to buy these courses, you should definitely do so! It will change everything about the way you shoot.

With that said, it will also change the way you run business. As you know, I’m just starting out and I really want to just jump in and go for it! And I want to be successful. You know, the one featured in The Knot and Florida Brides and all that high achieving things. I’ll be honest, recently I’ve been discouraged. I haven’t had as many brides and families as I’ve wanted. Then listening to Jasmine Star’s workshop, it occurred to me why. No one KNOWS who I am. No one KNOWS my dreams. No one KNOWS what I like to do in my spare time. No one KNOWS all my passions. No one KNOWS my family and my husband. No one knows ME. And who’s going to hire someone to shoot their most important day of their lives that they don’t even know? Exactly, I wouldn’t either. My wedding photographer was someone I knew and had spent lots of time with. I knew her and I loved her. It made sense for her to be a part of my big day.

But in order to tell everyone about me, I have to let go of my fears. Fears of rejection. Oh goodness do I fear rejection! My biggest fears in this industry boils down to one thing: What if people don’t like me? If they don’t like me, they don’t hire me. But guess what? What if they do like me and all the funny things going on in my life? Then we're in business.

So I am turning a new page. I’m embracing who I am and putting it out there. I’m not going to hold back or be scared. I’m going to just do it. (Oh dear Lord, please don’t let me regret this one!)

Here we go!