On Blogging.

I’ve been going back and forth and back again trying to decide if I want to bring more of my personal blog content to this blog and have it all in one place or not. I’ve weighed the pros and cons and checked out numerous other photography blogs to see what they do and it’s all over the board. Great. It’s still up to me. I love blogging, but have found that I’ve become very static in how I’ve blogged in the last few years. I have this blog and my personal blog, which has pretty much become all about Maya (my daughter) and little things about my family. I think it’s because of this static separation that I get overwhelmed on where and what to blog that I just don’t. And I get behind and then I have folders full of photos and thoughts that are left undone.

What I have really missed lately is a place to write my day to day things and random thoughts, which I haven’t done in a few years. Tonight I just took a trip down memory lane and went to my old blog, which I started in September of 2005. Wow. I started that blog not even a year after I moved to Arizona from Indiana. Only four months after I got married. Four months before I got my first digital camera. One year before I decided to do Photography as a career. I was working as a habilitator for kids with Autism and those were the kids that I looked forward to getting my camera on (I had to make those posts private so you won’t get to read them…or maybe I’ll go back and change their names). And I blogged about anything, and about nothing…and I think I was pretty good at writing too. I think. And as I read my day to day things and thoughts I found that I really, really miss that girl. Not to say that I don’t like who I am now, but oh how I enjoyed that time of my life and I am so thankful that I documented it.

So this is my decision. For now. I’ve decided to keep both blogs; obviously this photography blog and my family blog. BUT, I think I’m going to bring more of me over here and keep the family more for family. To document all of the milestones and hundreds of cute pictures of my ever growing daughter. Mostly to keep some sort of separation for myself as I read back on things. So that someday, hopefully, my kids will want to go back and read about their childhood and see pictures and videos without having to sort through miles of photos of other peoples families. And I think I will bring more nonsensical things to this blog, because I realize that sometimes clients aren’t just hiring my photographs, but hiring me as a person to give who I am through my work. I’m not even sure if that makes sense and maybe and probably in some instances I am wrong. I suppose if you don’t want to read this stuff, I’ll keep it categorized as personal and you can go click on the category that you are interested in.

Here’s the very first picture ever taken with my very first digital camera in February of 2006. Derrick actually took it of me as I was reading the manual. Thought it’d be fun to add to this post.It kind of makes me want to dig through all of the old film photos I used to take with my film Canon. Maybe another day. And another little find on the old blog: here is the very first photo shoot I did that I got paid for. Yikes. I look back at those and cringe a little.. over edit city, crazy crops..horrible exposure and lighting..but you have to start somewhere. Kind of can’t believe that I’m sharing this with you! I think what makes it worse is that he’s a pretty famous NHL hockey player. I can’t believe I GAVE them those photos! Oh well.