Is This a Good Place To Start?

So is it? It’s certainly a beginning.

Two weeks ago I left my desk job to kick start my photography business. It had niggled for a while that I could spend all these hours doing what I love and even better, it could provide a way for me to make my living. I had the idea before I even took this job, but I was lacking the motivation. Not too long after I began, I remembered why I’d left my last desk job and moved to Norway (we’ll save that for a later blog); my creativity felt stifled, my grey matter beginning to resemble a cabbage. This may not sound like much, but it is in creative thinking that my brain thrives - that I thrive, and I needed to reclaim that. It was nobody’s fault but my own - I’d jumped at the chance to have a full time income, thinking that the money would provide a pathway to satisfying my needs. Maybe on some level it would, but it could never fulfil me and I knew that.

So here I am now, sat in a cafe, writing for you, explaining something that may not need explaining, but it helps to get the words out.

Here’s the point: I’d like to include you (whoever’s listening) in the process of starting this photography business and getting it up and running. Personally, I found it quite tricky to find information on how to begin, with limited funds and self-belief, in this industry, and maybe you have too (or maybe you’re just here for the ride). Anyway, for now I just want to say “hi”, I hope you enjoy my photos and maybe we’ll work together in the future (or maybe you’ll buy a print - coming soon - nudge nudge, wink wink).

Okay moving on, yesterday I took the day off from business stuff and went for a walk into Tewkesbury, where I live. One of the main features in town is the near-900 year old Abbey and being a bit of a history nerd, I’ve been in there many times for a look around. A few times previously I’d noticed that on a Sunday there was some incense floating about in the air (I suppose that’s a thing in a traditional-style church), and I remembered when I’d visited the Vatican that this can make some epic rays of light, but it had always been a dull day outside so far. Well, yesterday was the day. Proving my latest motto that I haven’t manage to word yet, but is similar to “you’ve got to be in it to win it”, the rays turned up.

Honestly, that’s not photoshopped, it’s just another reminder that when chasing dreams, you’ve got to be in it to win it.