looong time comin'

Wow, last year was my most recent post. Yikes! Well, no time for a full update. I'll incorporate flashbacks as I roll.

I'm putting a ton of effort into freelance sports photography these days. It's part of the master plan to swing my career into a fully sports-related orientation. So far I'm having more fun than I imagined. My biz plan maps a mandate that focuses on adults. But last week I shot some high school girls soccer. Waaaay too much fun! Plus there's a huge high school football rivalry in the making-- Notre Dame v St. Francis. Notre Dame is a young school (4 years old) but already they're hoisting City Champ banners to their rafters. Last year their football team went UNDEFEATED and won City Champs. This year the senior football squad moved up a division to take on the perennial super powers-- St. Francis. Notre Dame will face St. Francis for the first time next Friday @ 6pm-- the quintessential Friday Nite Lights. Gotta be there for that!

I feel selfish in my pursuit of a career that I'm 110% passionate about. Or maybe I feel selfish in how I pursue that career. Regardless, I'm grinding out what I know how to do and seeking ways to fine tune my game. Fine tune? Who am I kidding? I've got leaps + bounds of progress ahead of me. I guess what I meant is that I'm taking it one small step at a time... which feels like tweaking, or fine tuning. But I know I'm on the right track because all the grinding I'm doing doesn't seem like work. Editing + uploading images has become more pleasurable as I raise my standards, understand the marketable range of an image, and consider the psychology of sales.

The next piece of the sports career mosaic-- sponsorship that makes sense.