New Website

I have been spending too many hours of late working on my new website. When I was in Las Vegas for the WPPI convention, I was checking out websites with Lisa, who was looking to buy one. I ended up getting one myself (we both did). I had been thinking about it, but ended up with a different company than I planned. I'm really excited about the new website and hope to have it up and running soon. My previous host is proving difficult to contact for transfer info, but as I'm still creating the website, I have a little time. One of the really cool things about this new website is that I can change templates and the look of my website pretty easily, so it will be changing more frequently than before. I love my old site, but it needs updating.

Also at WPPI, I attended a class by some marketing consultants as well as a motivational class by Joe Photo. Both of them have encouraged me to be better about setting goals, not only business but personal. Though I have not actually written anything down yet, as they both suggested, I have some thoughts in my mind about accomplishing specific tasks and am working on them, so I'm happy about that. One of my goals will be to keep the blog better updated. This is a slow time of year for shooting weddings - I'm talking to a lot of clients and setting things up for later, but I'm not shooting much now, so I'm not posting much. I would also like to take on some personal projects as one of my goals.

I'm posting an image from a warmer time of year that I love. This is Mark playing catcher in a baseball game. You have to wait for a while during the game for the dirt and dust to build up in the glove and then wait for a throw to come into home plate that doesn't include another player or referee. When all the stars align, and you're in position, with the correct lens, the correct composition and the correct camera settings, you get what you were searching for.