Today I’m starting fresh. I launched this website in October 2018 as a firm commitment to finally pursue photography in a real, serious way. In the time since I published the first version of my website, I’ve transformed photography from a casual hobby into a legitimate business, and I’ve learned a lot about myself and the work I most enjoy doing in the process.
As always, Shanima and I have so many exciting developments on the horizon that I can’t wait to share, but for now, let’s just say that 2020 is going to be a year during which so much hard work across the past seven years finally comes to fruition. Things that I/we used to only daydream about while we were in college are now just around the corner, and I don’t want to jinx anything, but in just over two weeks, I should have some HUGE news to share that is going to be a game-changer for our lives in general as well as for my photography business. Let’s just say that it will involve moving my home photo studio to a new location permanently so that I’ll finally have a place I can bring clients for family/personal milestone photoshoots.
Along with the relaunch of the website, I’m also (as this post makes obvious) relaunching my blog. I had a blog that I posted on almost daily for several months, but that blog petered out this summer when Shanima and I took our six-week trip to Australia, Southeast Asia, and China. I never really got back into it, and to be honest, I think part of it was that the voice of my blog before the trip reflected an iteration of my self that was no longer in tune with who I was when I returned. In the same way that the old version of the website has become a poor representation of who I am as a photographer, the blog was no longer a good representation of who I am and want to be as a person.
And so with this post, I am hitting the reset button. And instead of hiding my blog in the background of my website as I did with the last iteration, this time, it’s going to live on the home page. I’m going to use it to post about my photoshoots, about things that I think can be helpful for clients and photographers alike, and about life in general. But mostly it will be a photography blog because that’s what this website is about.
Enjoy the new page, and if you’re looking for something new to read, go ahead and RSS this blog.