New Year Ramblings

I’ve been sitting on this batch of new portraits from @oh.cecilia for quite a few months now. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stared at them in this time, wanting to share, feeling absolutely in love with them, but feeling a need to say something about myself. This is a professional photography page after all.

So now it’s time to try, the time of year when the work slows down, but my business brain keeps telling me to market myself. Did you know this is engagement season? More people get engaged between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day than any other time of the year. As a photographer who loves photographing weddings (and, in transparency, makes my livelihood from weddings), it feels like so much pressure to book this time of year. To show my work, to show why you(!) newly engaged people, should work with me, to keep chugging along!

But my instinct this time of year is to slow down. To read more books. To look back at photos (both professional and personal). To think ahead, yes, but maybe not yet make the big leaps forward.
I’ve been reading a lot of good books, including The Correspondent and some Ann Patchett collections. They have me feeling. FEELING. They have me sorting through boxes of old letters. They make me want to say something important about my art and life in general. But while reading books fills me up, this is about the extent of my writing. This is where photography steps in. To capture these FEELINGS.

So as the year begins, I take these desires of moving slowly and more reflectively as something I can apply to my work. Move with intention, photograph with care, and above all, observe with curiosity.

Was this where I thought this caption would go? Certainly not. But I’m sure Rollins a year from now will think it was a nice sentiment and probably go pick up a book