Things are moving so quickly this week. The classes are both intense in tone and content. Maybe that’s a bit vague, but I’m honestly a bit too tired to try and explain it. I’m having enough trouble wrapping my brain around everything we’re hearing so it’s way too early to try and unravel it, let alone try and make sense of it for someone else.

In a nutshell we’re talking business; direction, focus, logistics and the cold, hard realities of breaking into the business and working as a photographer. Right now I think anyone who is paying attention in class is starting to weigh one thing against another as they figure out whether this is for them or not. I know I am. So much is at risk… we do this, we shoot because we love it, and the financial rewards are not likely to be huge so we MUST love it, but when you put love on the line and turn it into a job… well, that’s when things get complicated. One of our teachers summed it up nicely: “there are a lot easier ways to not make a lot of money”.

I also had a really eye-opening mini-critique in class this week as well. My photos do not look anything like what other people in RMSP are doing. I can’t help but think that this tells me something. What, I’m not sure, but it is telling me something.

Again.. too tired to even think. More later.