I just read a great article over at Digital-Photography-School.com on how to be inspired every day as a photographer. It suggests making a notebook of inspiring images to find inspiration from. I’ve started mine today. You don’t even have to be a photographer to find it a valuable read.I’m feeling like I am at a crossroads. I have skills in several areas including an educational background in marketing and design, yet I barely show off my abilities or showcase my work! What is up with that? I find it a lot easier to market other people’s products and services than my own. How bad is that? Bad…. bad, bad, bad. (I know, “cry me a river,” right?! I hear ya).
While I sit here working on my inspiration book, I’m realizing that the reason I have trouble marketing the very things I love to do is for that precise reason; I LOVE what I do. I could sit for hours and days on end designing my greeting cards, enhancing old photographs, bringing photographs to life with enhancements done in Photoshop like the one above of my fence, creating logos, setting up blog sites, etc. I just love every single aspect of these things.
I wonder if anyone else has ever felt this way? It’s almost frustrating to have the God-given talent to do all these things and not sum them all up as available services. So, that’s what I am working on. Small businesses and start-ups would be crazy not to hire a one pony show to be able to set their presence up online in an artistic manner!
I’m trading my blue mood for a pocketful of inspiration so I can roll on with some focus today!
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