Ally Godfrey & where I'm at....

I was surprised by Ally.  I thought she was great & very informative.  I was in awe of the books that she was showing.

I thought it was interesting to hear about it from a rep side.  She seems to be pretty involved with the photographers that she works for and that was surprising to me.  I wasn't sure if it's because she kind of hand picked those people or what but I definetley appreciated the one on one it seems that she gives back to her clients.

Yes I was one of those that left early and it wasn't by choice.  On Monday nights I have to be back for my kids by 10 because my mother in law has them and I can't request that she keep them past that knowing she has to be at work the next morning.

I appologize and I will meet with you about it.  I would like to explore more about this opportunity you suggested about those of us that just wanted to focus on the business side of what we have going instead of doing a show.  I would still like to have a show but it's unrealistic for me to be able to complete what I started by the second week in Nov to start preparing prints.  I have alot more going on than anyone else I believe and while I don't like to use that as a crutch it's just fact.  I have decided to bow out of grad school because of where I am in life.  This decision was made just recently.  I will come out with teacher certification but won't be teaching college as originally planned.  With that being said I have needed to "re-vamp" things with my business.

I would like to make new promos, redesign my literature on session pricing, redesign my website, new logo & create another website that hosts my work outside of my portrait business.

So there it is....I'll talk about this later with Vaughn.

Here is some new work with my business....these are all recent images within the past month or so.

Thoughts on Vaughn's presentation & update on project!

Whooohooooo I'm updating this!  No really last week was a bad week between kids being sick & myself.

I spent at least an hour every day last week excluding Friday researching some more artists trying to figure out exactly if I am going to take images of abused children or "stage" this.  I have shot some images (probably 15) but I do not want to post them to here.  Only because this is so personal to me.  I plan to eventually but just not at this moment. 

This whole series is a very emotional process for me and between family, school & my business I have learned that I have to give myself time to get deeper in to the things I remember and allow time for the emotional side of it.

I did a phone interview last week with my father.  I would like to do a video interview next week but the reaction I got from him was let me think about this.  I have not contacted my mother yet, and made my father promise not to say anything.  At this point he doesn't know that I plan to use this whole thing as a show/series in a body of work.  I am not sure at this point if I am going to tell them.

Anywhooooo I missed class last week due to a sick child so I don't have an essay to write on Chad.  I did however LOVE yours Vaughn.  I felt like people really dug the work you showed and the turn out was more than what you anticipated!  People were intrigued, and even though I had seen most of that work, I was into your presentation as well.  I feel like you hold an audience!  You are soooooo good with that and  it shows!!

I will post some examples of the things I have done....they won't be in this exact content but you will kind of get an idea of where I'm headed with this project!e