It's ALL Good!

So... If you saw my post from the other night on facebook (I have since deleted it), you know that someone FLAGGED my Tuesday's blog for being abusive... humm.. I have no clue where anything in my boring Tuesday's blog could in any means be taken as abusive. Go back & read it, it really was quite boring. I am trying to keep up with doing this DAILY, and was writing about how the cold effects me.  Funny, I hear from these seminars how important it is to blog daily, yet the guy I work with tells me NOT to blog daily that people will just hide me. THEN... I asked a current client & she said NO, if she was a new client checking out my photography business she said she LIKES to read that I am a REAL person dealing with real daily things. So since a customer said this I suppose I'd better keep up with it, and those who are sick of me can just hide me. No big deal right?
Last week I realize while trying to be funny I may have been offending newbie photographers... but I was really only trying to be funny not hurtful. I realized this, this past fall. When my friend's husband said some stuff on facebook, and I being stressed out over my sister's benefit and I totally chewed him out.... not realizing he was also trying to be funny & I mis-read what he wrote. I get it now how it is hard to get humor to come across in simple text rather in actual voice. Anyway I was not meaning any harm.


My two FAVORITE quotes are: "photography calls many but chooses few" I read this on fellow photographer's Mike (UM photo) page & loved it!
My friend said to me a few years ago &  have USED her quote ever since: "There are professional photographers with proper training and education and then there are those who think they are photographers with a few good snap shots who declare themselves as professionals".  Do not know why I felt like you needed to hear my favorite quotes, but here they are anyway LOL!!


I was just looking back on previous blogs, and realize all we have for pics here on the blog are WEDDING pics. Weddings by far are the main thing we focus on, and second being high school seniors and families coming in third. I was reminded why I am not all that "into" Newborn pics... Here is the story:
While in college I was working at a Walmart Portrait Studio (against my College Instructor's advice he was very against the in-store type of studios like the Walmarts, JC Pennys like studios) Before getting into this... I must say this job goes down in my book for being one of my worst job experiences I have ever had. Anyway... I get hired on the spot when they learned I was in college FOR professional photography. Then find out had to wear business attire... ok that was fine & dandy until I learned how freezing it was being the portrait studio was smack next to the door as you entered! Anyway... getting off track. After my training I was the studio manager in Eden Prairie, and I was the ONLY one there. My 2nd day on the job and I had parents bring in their new baby. When they come in I read them a spiel about how to hold on to their baby, never take their hand off their baby (the kids/babies are set on about a 3' tall table for posing) Anyway I am sure you can see where I am going with this.. YEP! As I am getting baby all focused in, the baby FALLS OFF the table! The mom totally freaked out at me! Just glad I was never sued. To this day I am not sure what had happened. The parents were told not to take their hands off their child yet some how the baby still fell. Needless to say I did not stay at that job long, and I have been a bit "gun shy" of taking baby photos ever since. I see a few fellow photographer's blog posts of new babies & WISH I was more comfortable doing the babies... maybe someday! Even after my own babies births I am still not too comfortable holding a baby. I mean I do not turn them away when I get people bringing me their babies to photograph... but I do not get these sleeping babies either because I MAKE the parents be much more involved then most photographers allow parents to be I think. And now when I DO have a baby... everything is ON THE FLOOR in my studio. No chances. One baby we have been photographing for almost a year now... SHE is FUN! I think I like this little lady because they bought a big grow-with-me package when she was first born and comes in every three months so we are really getting to know her. So if we could get in more kiddos like her that would be awesome! Jill met me at the studio last night & assured me, as she is a daycare mom that she is more comfortable with babies, so she is on a new campaign to get in a few new babies (one born yesterday at about 4am) from her daycare... so we will see. If she is up for it... I am game ;)