I took Dallin & Jessica Lochridge out to the woods to do some "family photos for them". Despite a few blunders on my part, the whole thing turned out pretty well, and I got free ice cream from Big Jud's out of it.
I've really been wanting to build up my portfolio to where I can justify charging for my services, and having a competitive edge over other local photographers. A bunch of students advertise their services as "professional" photographers, but if you look at their websites the pictures are mediocre at best, and there's always way too many. Most of them just use a blogsite to display their photos, which is the worst way to do it, because there's no organization, you just have this huge list with hundreds of mediocre photos that you get bored with before you're a tenth of the way through it.
Anyway, I posted a listing on the college bulletin board saying I would do free photography sessions for anyone interested for the purpose of building up my portfolio. I posted a link to a website that I keep what small portfolio I have available (rjleman.myphotoalbum.com). I wasn't really expecting to hear from anyone, just thought I'd give it a chance. Well last night I get an e-mail from a girl who's wanting me to do engagement photos the morning of June 28th, and then I got a call this morning from a lady that wants me to family photos the afternoon of June 28th! She had seen my website and said she really liked my portfolio! Hooray! I'm so excited to finally start doing photo-shoots for people other than close friends. I'm really hoping I can keep this going to the point where I can justify getting some serious digital equipment and try to make a little side business out of it. Anyway, just thought I'd share my excitement with all y'all. Cheers!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Snow! Glorious Snow!
I woke up on the morning of June 11th, excited about the prospect of finally being able to start riding my bike to work and such to lose the couple of pounds I've gained in the past year (and by couple I mean 40.) I walked out the front door, took in a deep breath of the fresh summer air.... opened my eyes...... and it was snowing. In the middle of June. Snow. June. Wow.
Things have been moderately rough here lately. Aside from the obvious circumstances now going on, which I won't bother to discuss. Melaleuca had it's annual customer care convention on Tuesday. They were planning on showing my movie (see previous blog) at the convention in front of the 1000 or so people attending. My whole team couldn't stop talking about how excited they were to finally see my movie. I sat down jittery with anticipation to see the crowds reaction. And instead of my movie at the end of the convention they played a TEN MINUTE slide show with nothing but "inspirational" quotes from famous historical figures and company leaders and such. Ten minutes.... the entire segment could have been summed up in one line. "Don't suck at life." So ya, instead of playing my movie like they promised, they played ten minutes of slides that were so hard to read and moving so fast that you could only read one out of every four slides that flew by. Everyone on my team looked at me and asked when they were going to play my movie, and I tried to put on a brave face and say, "I guess there just wasn't time for it." With everything that's been going on, to have that taken away from me seriously almost brought me to tears. I guess it really shouldn't be a big deal, but I've been looking forward to it for almost two months. Oh well, life sucks then you die right?
Things have been moderately rough here lately. Aside from the obvious circumstances now going on, which I won't bother to discuss. Melaleuca had it's annual customer care convention on Tuesday. They were planning on showing my movie (see previous blog) at the convention in front of the 1000 or so people attending. My whole team couldn't stop talking about how excited they were to finally see my movie. I sat down jittery with anticipation to see the crowds reaction. And instead of my movie at the end of the convention they played a TEN MINUTE slide show with nothing but "inspirational" quotes from famous historical figures and company leaders and such. Ten minutes.... the entire segment could have been summed up in one line. "Don't suck at life." So ya, instead of playing my movie like they promised, they played ten minutes of slides that were so hard to read and moving so fast that you could only read one out of every four slides that flew by. Everyone on my team looked at me and asked when they were going to play my movie, and I tried to put on a brave face and say, "I guess there just wasn't time for it." With everything that's been going on, to have that taken away from me seriously almost brought me to tears. I guess it really shouldn't be a big deal, but I've been looking forward to it for almost two months. Oh well, life sucks then you die right?
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