In case you haven’t noticed, I don’t write much on my blog posts, I like to keep my words to a minimum and let my photos speak for themselves. And if you’re anything like me, unless you’re my parents (hi mom and dad), you only have a few seconds of time so you like to skip right to the photos anyway… So, if you’ve made it this far, I appreciate it!
I came across an article that made me laugh and I thought it was worth sharing since I recently had a similar experience. I have been totally slacking on blogging lately despite my new year’s resolution to try to blog once per week, mainly because life has been crazy-busy balancing teaching, shooting, and editing and hasn’t left much time for anything else. I was fortunate enough to get a 2-week break from the craziness and travel abroad to a few cities in Italy with a good friend of mine. When I got back, I was completely bombarded with emails and spent the better part of a day responding and returning phone calls after being gone all weekend shooting the wedding of Carolyn and Sean (pics to come, she looked ADORABLE!!!) on Catalina Island. During one of my phone conversations, my client asked about Italy and said “Wow, the life of a photographer sounds great! Hanging out at weddings and traveling around the world!” To this, I almost fell out of my chair laughing. I mean, yes, I get to celebrate (and dance!) and be surrounded by lots of love on weekends, and I have an absolute blast doing it, and yes I get to travel and experience things that most people do not, but I tried to explain that the fact that I had 10 days off was pretty much the world’s greatest miracle, and since being home for 2 days I have edited 2 weddings and returned hundred of emails and have barely crossed off 3 lines on my multiple page to-do list. And, photography is job #2 (thank goodness for summer vacation!). Anyways, back to the article. It shared these two pie charts which really spelled out the “life of a photographer” as seen by others, and then showed our reality. (I’m a teacher, please bear with my dorkiness and love of graphs)
Perception:
Reality:
Sure some of those things aren’t quite so high… Blogging is definitely lower (ha), Advertising and Marketing are pretty much non-existent, and Networking takes a hit, but other than that this graph is pretty accurate. And, again, this is my side job! I have to balance that 100% (or, really 85ish%) with the 110% I put into my Kindergarteners, and 5ish% of the “party like rockstars” because I have been known to tear up a dance floor or two………
On that note, I absolutely LOVE what I do, and I wouldn’t change a thing. While that first graph does look pretty appealing…… ::sigh, back to reality:: As much as the carpal tunnel building up in my wrists from answering emails is telling me to take it easy, I love love love my clients and I am so blessed to have them (you!) in my life and I wouldn’t have it any other way!!! You are why I have taken on this challenge to balance all of the loves in my life
To end for now, here are a few pictures from my trip to Italia… I’ll put up more in another longer blog post soon.
No, really, I will.
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