"Be yourself and be good at it." - Jasmine Star

This last weekend I was privileged enough to spend two days watching the remarkable Jasmine Star give a creativeLIVE seminar on building your photography business and I found myself informed, inspired, frightened, unsure, upbeat and entirely overwhelmed.  Here is a woman who started while she and her husband had no money, no fancy equipment or cars and a dream for what would make her happy every morning, it was as if she opened up my heart and read aloud.  She spent much of two days talking more about being yourself and being confidant in that more than anything else, and with a shudder I knew she meant me.

So that, combined with the desperate need to clean out my Lightroom catalog, I am issuing myself a challenge, to post for 30 days.  I am going to show you pictures you've probably never seen before and tell you stories you may or may not have heard.

The truth is, I don't know if anyone other than myself reads this blog, so this is a lesson in discipline, sticking to it, and taking the opportunity to write.  To write again is something I need in my life, much like when you get to have a great conversation with an old friend you didn't know you needed to talk with but when you're done you feel like a piece of your soul has been set right.

So here I go, trying to be myself, thanks for listening.