Wootness | the blog of christine walsh-newton
master photographer | photographic craftsman | certified professional photographer
For the past few years, the photography industry has been flooded. Absolutely flooded. With photographers, with choices, with product lines ranging from the dirt cheap to the merely ridiculous. When I began analyzing the market for my entrance into it, it didn’t look like this. But while I was busy learning and prepping to open …
Continue reading “The high road vs the road to the bank. You decide.”
At some point in time, you decided you could make some money at photography. That’s great. Really. Photography is a cool occupation. I like it a lot and I’m glad when others discover they like it a lot, too. At the point that you begin to accept money for your work, you have entered the …
Do you feel under pressure? Now that you’re a photographer? Or now that you’ve loudly proclaimed to all who will listen that you have a passion for photography and you are going into business? Yeah, guilty. Truth #1: Sometimes I just want to take a photo like a tourist. I’ll make sure everything’s in focus, …
So, yeah, I went MIA for awhile. Life got a little bit overwhelming because yours truly had WAY too many irons in the fire and then was hit with a health issue that required rest and care. Nothing serious and things seem to be fine, now, so I’m carrying on. While I was MIA, I …
Yes, it’s been awhile, we’ll get to that in another post. For now, I’d like to tell you about an epiphany I had the other day. February 25th, to be exact. On that day, I was part of a birthday gift to a young woman who had started a photography business. Her good friend was …
MWAC…we say it and we sneer. We jeer when Missy pronounces it the way she does and we roll our eyes when someone says they’re proud to be one. MWAC, DWAC, GWAC…they all mean the same…someone with a camera. We scoff and pronounce ourselves professional photographers and move on. But maybe, just maybe these chicks …
Yeah yeah yeah. I’m supposed to be all optimistic and think positively about the new year. Screw that. All I can say is “so long, good riddance.” 2011 frankly, sucked. For a lot of reasons. Business-wise, it was a toss-up. Business was down, but I’m in tune with the reasons why. On a personal level, …
Continue reading “So long, 2011. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass…”
So, it’s been a few days, and honestly, it’s going to be a few more. I’ve got my head down dealing with holiday orders and year-end activities for the business as well as personal life stuff. So, take a break and have some fun. When we come back I’ll reveal a couple of extreme home …
Be warned that this is a line of personal thinking that led to mini-epiphany about my business, so hang in there – I do have a point. Let’s talk about fashion. Me? Fashion? [pause for laughter] Let’s just say that once upon a time, my friend Karen admitted to being tempted to submitting my name …
Newsflash: I’m not all that and a bag of chips. I ain’t even the bag of chips by itself. Recently, I had some email correspondence with a reader. After I replied, the response read, in part: OMG, thank you so much. I did not think you would write me back. Wow, really? Now, this isn’t …
