By the way with that last post I admitted to having shot weddings. Generally not thought to be a good idea, to admit to it that is. It's funny how taboo this is. It's like there's a hierarchy in photography and perhaps it goes something like this: weddings to commercial to editorial to fine art. If you admit to having dabbled in any of the levels below you it's as though you are tainted. I think this is pretty weird because we all have to start somewhere. When you've just finished school and you are offered really good money for a few Saturdays a month it's hard to say no. Plus I found that weddings taught me a lot, especially how to work fast and under pressure. Of course we all want to climb that ladder and shooting weddings can get real tired real fast. And it definitely feels good to give them up when you can.

Basically I think that there are two ways that newby photographers seem to progress, at least for those of us that start out with no money that is, no trust fund kids included in this list please. So either you start out shooting whatever kind of photography work that you can get paid for and do your own stuff on the side, or you work a steady job manning phones or something and then do your photo stuff on the side. I took the former route and it suited me well. It allowed me to use my photo skills and taught me a lot of business skills too. But it seems as though my type can get a bad rap. Those that worked a full time job till they hit the big work that they were aiming for seem untouchable because they never slummed around doing stuff like weddings. Well while we were getting paid to shoot they were manning phones. That's all the rant I have in me for tonight.

Searching for that old wedding photo got me looking at some other ones that I've shot. And so since my wedding is definitely on the brain I will be showing more wedding photo outtakes in the next 2 weeks. Bear with me. Regular programing will resume in June.