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I've been thinking a lot about things since I've become unemployed. Mainly that I really haven't been doing enough with my photography. I've done a couple presentations, shot a couple of weddings, and did a small shoot for a newsletter my dad was putting out. All that is fine really but it's not what drives me. I can easily make money photographing some event, and quite often that turns out to be pretty fun to do as well.
What I've really been wanting to do more of is getting out of town. To the middle of nowhere. To go get lost and take some pictures.
Perhaps the Pacific Northwest has that effect on me. I've never had this level of creativity outside of this geographic location. I'm so happy I moved back, I missed it so much.
In the short time I've been here I've already had some pretty stellar photo outings. This brings to mind so many places around the area that I've rarely gotten to shoot, and the other places I've never photographed. I'm going to go to as many of those places as I can this year and see what I can catch.
Another thing that has been pretty heavy on my mind is the memory of my aunt Treva who left us last August after a long battle with cancer. She and her friends were always so creative and supportive of each other. Even though I didn't really get to spend much time with her she still had a big effect on me now that I look back on it. I got some news the other day that the foundation started in her honor,
The Treva Hoffman Foundation, is looking to make a calendar of some photos taken around Oregon with the proceeds to go toward cancer studies for women. I thought of some great photos I've taken in the area that I want to allow them to use.
The thought of having some of my work in a calendar is something I've always wanted to do. I've toyed with the idea of releasing my own calendar for years now. Sadly a lot of bullshit got in the way and I lost that spark. Now that I'm back though that spark is rekindled, and thoughts of putting out some photo books and calendars came up again.
I'm currently researching the logistics of making this happen, and I've found some pretty good options. I'm going to start looking in to advertising too so that maybe I can sell some more of my prints. Being unemployed at the moment kinda has it's perks I guess but it also has some drawbacks. Anyway this is becoming long winded enough that I'll just wrap it up with this:
-I will be putting out a 2010 photo calendar, and possibly a photo book
-I have some serious plans to go on some pretty big photo excursions this year
-I'm going to get my website back up
-I'm finally going to do what I always wanted to do and not what others expect me to, I've been unhappy for far too many years now and it's time to get back to doing what makes me happy.
I'm unsure if I'll really be using deviantart as a fulcrum to get all this going, I haven't really been part of the community here since I split with my ex-wife. I can't say I really know many people here before, not like I did in the past, and i'm really not sure if I want to put in all the effort here to become known again like I was back then. It just really doesn't hold the appeal for me that it once did. If I'm going to put the effort in to being seen it will be on my own website, where I don't have to battle with thousands of others to get page hits. I'm sure I'll still post some of my better work here and make prints available, but I can honestly say I don't really care to be part of the community here again, it just wouldn't ever be the same as it was.
