Change is difficult especially when it's forced on you (Facebook).  When I started my business, I learned that I needed a website, facebook and a blog (really?).  And while I started a blog when I started my photography business, I cheated. I was sure that I didn't have anything to say that mattered so I made it a showplace for one of my favorite products, fusion video slideshows. You see, prior to my business I had spent my adult lifetime earning a living largely by talking, counseling, participating in meetings and constantly being verbal. I was done. I wanted to quietly produce art and beauty and make a fortune, of course. Silly me. It just doesn't work that way.

First of all, I didn't do a good job posting regularly to my blog even though I didn't have to write a word.  Blogging is a committment, kind of like having a diet consultant to keep you accountable. If you put something out for the world to read or view, the world will hold you accountable.

Secondly, when I'm working with clients, I am talking,  non-stop. Then recently, during a online training session I was reminded that communicating and building rapoort with my clients is as big or bigger than the quality of my work and simply displaying my work online doesn't complete the picture. Hiring a photographer involves three things we hold dear: our time, our money and people we care about. Clients won't book a session with someone they don't know well enough to trust and be comfortable with.  Come to find out, I may have been missing out on some tremendous relationships by failing to put myself out there in a blog. (Sigh)

So today is the new beginning, blog-wise.  This is where I will verbalize rather than being only visual. There may be images but there will always be thoughts and even ramblings. I will do my best to be consistent but that means you will get the real me. Some weeks I may to be enlightening and insightful, some, not so much. I hope to be humorous and maybe even inspiring. But I am a real live person first; wife, mother, grandmother and friend next, then a photographer. So there will be days when you get to know the real me.....for which I apologize in advance.

Blessings,

Sam