Shooting food.

Shooting old friends.

Shooting new friends.

And squeezing in some travel.

And, of course, gearing up for wedding season.

I know it’s a bit late to talk about goals, at least in reference to the new year, but April for me is sort of the start of a new year in terms of running a seasonal business like wedding photography. For this year, I really hope to be better about blogging. This social media thing doesn’t come naturally to me like taking photos does. I’m uncomfortable with it, worried that self-promotion might be read as narcissism; that I might write something personal in my blog and that people, clients especially, might infer things about me through my blog that I don’t want them to (which is rather ridiculous because I live a very simple, undramatic life, but still); that my privacy, or my kids’ privacy, might somehow be compromised. Those kinds of worries plague me and I’ve struggled with these concerns since I started my business five years ago. But that’s no excuse. I am challenging myself to share and write in a creative way that can somehow circumvent these concerns so that I can have a genuine, creative place on the web to share this craft I love so much.

Hold me to it, will you?