toolonggone

Every time I log on here and contemplate writing an entry on this journal, I always feel the need to offer some bit of world changing advice, or witty rambling story with a pointed ending. Today I really dont have anything life changing, or any stories you will immerse yourselves in, giggling and learning. Today I offer a bit about myself, in part to fill some space due to complete lack of entries, and partly to bit of myself out in the digital ether.

I am currently immersed, about neck deep, in this occupation I have found myself in. Dont get me wrong, it is a wonderful thing I do. Taking pictures has been my life for as long as I can remember. I accidentally found myself getting paid for it one day, and I have never looked back. But I have, completely unexpectedly, ended up in a niche that I have carved for myself.

For the last few years I have been shooting events on-site. Corporate parties, headshots, and all to many other grip and grin type events. I recently jumped head first into the deep and murky pool of commercial and print photography. I have newfound respect for the folks that do this work and can still manage to eat. It is a brutal market, with idiots at the wheel, suppressing some of the most brilliant minds I have run across recently. Sorry that was my little rant, but I have faced more frustration in the last few weeks than I have in most of my professional career.

The point that I have managed to completely encircle but never quit reach, is that I have been facing a relatively huge life change, not work, other parts of my life that I have no doubt will get in these journals eventually, and I wonder at the validity of reaching for what seams like an unattainable goal currently, or to just suffer through my current work situation. Sorry, rambled on a bit more there.

I am not sure if this will reach any curios readers, but feel free to ring in if you get a chance.

P.S. This seems a bit trite in rereading this, but what the hell.