Beginnings

I used to have a website...and business cards...I thought I was going to start up my own business after finishing school to do portraiture.

I knew it would take a long time to really get going.
I knew the equipment to be on a professional level would be expensive.
I knew it wouldn't be reliable income for possibly 10 years.
I knew it was (and still is) a very difficult industry to break into.

What I didn't know was how little I really knew about it, on both the technical and business side of things.  Then I met Rick, who has taken me under his wing and is teaching me what it takes to be a professional photographer.  Out of respect for my partnership with him, a few new realizations (and financial reasons) I have removed my website.  I realized it was much less of a portfolio of fair competition to other established photographers and more of a simple testament of my journey into the realm of photography (which is still very interesting though maybe not best displayed through a website of that expense).  However, because I believe it is worth sharing (I might be a little biased) and I continue to receive requests to see examples of my work, I am finally beginning a blog.  A blog, because photographs taken while learning are always a story, especially photographs taken by art students who have been taught to create their work in series and write about it. So here is my story :)