Future?
Inspirations?
I’m not famous, and I don’t have the clientele to be
famous.
Do I want to be famous?
…I thought long and hard about this. I don’t want to
be famous but I want to be known. I want to be like one of my inspiring
photographer. I want to inspire other photographer to follow their dreams. It
may take you years to get where you want but you are not the only one that are
fighting to be notice.
It took some famous people to get where they are now.
Most Art students know that Vera Wang didn’t open her
first design studio until she was 41 years old and that was in 1990.
Sometime I write, it is a side passion that I didn’t
gain until two years ago.
But…
Did you know that Laura Ingalis Wilder the women that
wrote the Little House series was 60
years old when her novel was finally published?
For all the Marvel fans, out there. Stan Lee was 39
years old when he created his first super-hero team, The Fantastic Four.
For my theater inspired people.
Morgan Freeman played in several small roles but it
wasn’t until he was 52 years old when he played in Glory, Driving Miss Daisy and Lean
on Me.
And!
Betty White didn’t gain mainstream attention until she
appeared on The Mary Tyler Moore
show. She was 51 years old. 51!
Then there is Samuel L Jackson. He also appeared in
several small roles but it wasn’t until he role in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing movie, that he became main stream.
He was 41 years old.
This is just a small list, there are more famous
people that didn’t become known until they were 30 years old. My point is that
I am only 27 years old and I plan to push myself to be known. To be inspiring.
I want to be the Photographer that hold events to teach other photographer to
show their passion, to never give up.
There’re photographer that I do know and have watch
become amazing people with a money hungry look on their face, but they lost
something on their hunger. They lost their passion, their style. Their Images
are lacking work, I am not an expert but when you at out, your goal as a
photographer is to make the customer happy and you focus on every detail of a
picture. Now, it’s become a race of time of when will be the next time I will
get another shoot to get my next pay check.
The beauty is gone and I pray that I never become that
way.
I’m a planner and I plan to have my own studio one
day. The other day I was in a hair salon in a small town and the women took a
home and cleaned it up and made each of the rooms into something, a nail
station, a break room, storage and then the living room and dining room were
the main room for cutting hair.
When I walked, it I felt like I was at home, I was
welcomed into the space. I want that. I want to have a home where I have rooms
for each type of type of photography. If it were to be newborn, I would like a
safe location and proper room temperature with great lighting to do those
pictures in addition to a newborn room I would also like a room to storage my
props.
A room for boudoir pictures so that my clients will
feel comfortable doing them.
A big room for classes or couching sessions.
A room for parents and couples to feel comfortable. I
want them to feel at home just as I felt when I walked into the hair salon.
My future is to make my clients and future student feel
welcomed.
My future isn’t based on being famous, my future are
my customers, and my future inspires as myself. I want to inspire and I want
the future to inspire as well. There will be a new generation of actors,
photographers, dancers, singers and each one of use has a goal to inspire.
I read my Inspirer’s blog every day and I had to agree
with her on something. Not everyone is cut out to be a dancer or photographer
or designer but that was because it didn’t inspire you enough to push for what
you want. It’s hard work, things don’t come easy and it’s up to you to be
something better and bigger.
I watch inspire every day. There is a UFC fight that
lives in a town or two away from me but he started with nothing and he had a
dream for something bigger. He now runs an amazing UFC gym to inspire another individual
to be better.
Currently, I am inspiring myself to be a better
photography, pushing myself to a take safety classes on how to properly prop a
newborn during a photo shoot or how to run a successful and proper ways of
marketing. Each step I take, I plan to share, to inspire the next best
photographer in our future and hopefully teach them something and learn from my
mistakes.
I hope that I have followers to watch me grow and see
that with hard work comes happiness.
I what asked what inspired me and there are two things
or two people that inspired me the most and still inspire me.
The first person that has away inspired me is my own
mother.
She has inspired me most in my life, not just with
photography, but reading, writing, drawing… If I wanted to try out something,
she was always there for me. When I brought myself down or felt at my lowest,
she was there for me. We may have had our fair share of fighting and yelling at
each other by at the end of the day our love for each other was always
unbreakable.
My Mother.
My mother is my
biggest Beta reader and creditor. My mother gives me an honest opinion on my
work and what she does or does not like. Sometimes I hate it but hearing those
thing lets me know that I need to be better that I can be better.
When I have a passion for something she never pushes
away from my passion. I remember when I was on my trip in Hawaii, I had called
her. I have no clue what time it was but I just felt as if I needed to call her
because my heart was so filled with worry of her approval.
I had called her and told her that I think I want to
be an Event Coordinator and she had said okay but not without telling me that
it would be hard because most people didn’t hire Event Coordinators anymore.
She never told me no, she just game me her honest opinion.
When I would bring up a new major or career, she would
tell me, “If that is what you want to do then go for it but just know that it
will be hard work to get there.” She didn’t tell me that to be rude or put me
down because she wasn’t wrong. Every step I took was hard. It had always taken
twice as longer to get to where I wanted to get to.
She was just reminding me that it will be a struggle
but I can do it. She had always believed in me.
When I am upset with something and wanted to cry and
yell. She was always there to listen to me.
When I had gained a passion for reading, my mother had
pushed me to listen to an author or read this book. When I started to write… I
was… am still embarrassed of what I write and it if will be good and my mother
has always told me that she was there to be my beta reader. My editor. She
never shied away from me and tell me I shouldn’t do it.
She has always pushed me to be a better person than
what I was.
If there is a picture that she is unsure about. I go
back and look at it.
My passion is her passion and she doesn’t just do that
for me. She does that for everyone around her.
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I will go back
to my first post about the photographer that was doing a baby shower for her
friend. Her name is Katelyn James Alsop,
she’s is a couple years older than me and she inspired me that with hard work
comes rewards.
He business started in 2008 the year I graduated high
school. I started to read her blog in the middle of her career, she wasn’t just
getting started, she was far along in her career and I envied her and it took
me some time to understand that things are not just handed to you and Katelyn
pushed herself to be a better photographer. I went all the way back to her
first post and had smiled. I said something about this photographer not know
what she wanted to call herself. So if you were took look up her first post it
won’t be on her photography page… Okay, I take that back, in one of her post a
blog, she had talked about her first blog but other than that it won’t be on
there. Her first blog with be on her first blog page which is called inspired
Designs by Katelyn James.
Her first post had been about her starting the long
just like any other photographer but her next one had been pictures of her
sister. She had just gotten a new camera from her parents and it was a Canon
5D.
I wanted to be just like her. I wanted to get the same
equipment, I wanted to follow each one of her steps. Then something accord to
me one night. I didn’t want to be just like her I want to be me. I still wanted
to follower her and her steps and watch her mistakes and watch her grow.
I learned from her. She has an amazing eye for detail
and each day I fell more and more in love with her work. She inspired me to be
just as or even better.
I love what she does as a photographer and a person. I
don’t want to be looked at as just a good or great photographer. I want to be a
great friend with all my clients, I want my clients to tell their friends and
family. “That person… that women right there is my friend, not just my
photographer.”
I don’t want my clients to come to me and feel as if I
am another business proposition. I want them to feel as if they can talk to me
as a friend. My goal as a photographer is for them to feel comfortable around
me before taking pictures.
I try to make meet and greets with all my clients
before there shoot to get a bet understand and vibe of how they feel around
people. So, that in the end, when it comes time to take my clients pictures
they feel more comfortable around me.
I, personally hate walking into a location and feeling
insignificant to the manager or owner of a business. I don’t want my clients to
feel that way. I want to go down the road 5 years later and call my client up
and says. “Hey! Do you want to get lunch?”
In the long run my future are my Clients and my
inspiration are my new future photographers and myself.
So again. I’m not famous, I don’t want to be famous. I
want to be inspirer.
I want to be me when I grow up.