Light at the end of the tunnel…
This running a business stuff is hard work….
And the worst part of it is, I haven’t really even started yet. I’ve been doing more business related setup over the last few weeks than I have been taking photos. In fact, until last Sunday I hadn’t taken ANY photos for weeks! How can this be the life of a photographer? Dealing with websites, blogs, business cards, accounting software, meetings, pimping myself out, etc. When do I actually get to take some photos!?!?
There is, however, light at the end of the tunnel…
The result of all this hard work seems to be paying off. I have a number of jobs lined up and actually have 2 clients on the books who are sending me multiple jobs. It’s all coming together.
So with the website out of the way as of last Saturday night, Sunday called for some downtime with beer and friends and some time to just relax and do something I enjoy. And that is take photos of cars.
Sunday was Marques in the Park. A rapidly growing car show held here in Canberra which ANYONE can enter their car into. Despite that, there are always some freakishly nice cars there. Also, of those freakishly nice cars, there are a few that stand out above them. Like the old school Ford Mustang in the above photo. It was just immaculate and gorgeous and I found myself staring at it, getting lost in it’s hard lines, perfect paint and spacious open-air interior. Simply THE nicest ’stang I’ve ever seen.
But, back to the photography thing, I managed to snap off a few photos at the show and suddenly everything started to feel better. Then, when I finally got a chance to process them and see how I did, I just felt even more at ease. I was happy with the results and it made me realise that it’s these moments that make all the annoying businessy stuff worth it.
I guess, the moral to my rambling here is, if you’re starting a photography business, or even if you’ve been running one for a while, and you find yourself getting caught up too much in the business side of things and it starts to get you down. Just remember why you started doing it in the first place. For me, it’s because I love taking photos and creating images, so all I needed to do was step away from the computer, pick up my camera and take photos of something truly beautiful….
on November 29, 2009 at 3:30 pm
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Jamie, Good luck with everything. I hope it all goes well for you.
on December 2, 2009 at 8:09 am
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Amen, Brother! You said it, it is hard but you have a great skill that needs to be used so keep up the good work. Congratulations on it all coming together, thats fantastic. You will go far!
on December 8, 2009 at 11:14 pm
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Good to see that things are starting to come together for you as a professional
My offer continues to stand for a re-shoot once my car is *actually* finished, and you never know – there may be another few in the works as well.