Something different

Since the start of 2012 I’ve been the photographer for a local theatre. I hooked the gig back in fall/winter of 2011, when the photographer they’d relied on for the past few years had some sort of slip up and they were in a bind to find a replacement quickly to shoot one of their shows. In stepped yours truly, and after everyone was so impressed with my photos I was given the spot as “official freelance photographer” starting in 2012.

There’s no set schedule for my theatre shoots… sometimes I feel like I haven’t been there in ages and sometimes I feel like I’m spending every other night there. Anywho, a couple weeks ago the theatre’s artistic director asked me to come take photos of the interior of the theatre for its website (which currently has none). So I thought I’d switch it up on my photography blog and share some of my favorite photos from the interior of the theatre. I’ve never shared anything on here regarding my side-gig as local theatre freelancer, but I was quite pleased with how pretty some of these images came out so I figured I’d throw them out there.

PS – You’ll notice the chandeliers appear oddly low. This is because they were being removed the following day for cleaning… not because they’d fallen from the ceiling 🙂

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My slump, (a tangent) and crawling out of it

I’m sure no one has noticed except me… but I haven’t been maintaining my photography blog as frequently as I was a month or so ago… as frequently as I’d like. A variety of things have attributed to this and I’m not going to bore you with them all… let’s just suffice it to say that life has been rather busy.

But that’s life – it’s busy. That’s never going to stop. And sometimes you have to take a step back and re-prioritize what’s most important.

Over the last couple months, my full-time job has given new meaning to “full-time”. I’ve logged ridiculous overtime that not only included nights, but weekends as well. My job is important to me and I care deeply about doing my best at it, but I’m realizing now that it’s caused me to neglect some of what I really want to do in life.

I want to take pictures… any day, every day, all the time. I want to become a freelance photographer. I want to maintain this blog and build a name for myself in this photography-world. I want to start dating again. I want to furnish my guest bedroom. I want to re-landscape my front yard. I want to have friends over to my house instead of always having them host me.

I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t even reflected on all these things I want to do. But fortunately – VERY fortunately – I’m starting to re-prioritize now. We have finally hired another person at my job to help ease my workload, so over the next few weeks I should have less stress and more time. And with the summer months right around the corner, there’s no better time to work wholeheartedly towards all I want out of life right now.

So with that being said, I’m back! I have a photo shoot scheduled for next week and another one in the works… and I’m going to push for more and more. When I have some down time and it’s not monsoon-ing outside, I’m going to pick up my camera and snap away. I’m going to practice (luckily I have an awesome friend who’s willing to be my muse) and refine my skills to become a better photographer. I’m going to reveal to you all who I am and let everyone into my life a little more, as I’m more comfortable with this platform now than I was when I first started. Oh, and I’m going to start on all that other non-photography related stuff that I mentioned above too.

Thanks for reading my tangent… I can’t wait to start posting more regularly again!

My first newborn shoot

A few weekends ago I did my first newborn shoot. The idea was to get a bunch of newborn baby girl, plus some with her 2-year-old big brother and their parents.

Welp, kids are unpredictable and you certainly can’t do anything about their moods! So when both kiddos were having a cranky afternoon I just had to take what I could get. It was a bit of a challenging shoot but it certainly showed me some things I need to practice/improve on. And I’m happy that I got some cute pictures despite all the screaming cries.

Here are some of my favorite shots from the day. Please feel free to chime in with some feedback!