DeWitt Famiily | 2014

Another great pleasure of shooting the DeWitt Family last weekend. With the new addition to the family of five, the weather was teetering on perfect...Just a little chilly.  

Twitter Chat!



Twitter is now full of chat about the BCS Championship game and not too much about photography!  Just looking for something that catches my eye in between plays.  I'm still good with my goal of reading one informative photography article a day. 

I'm bored at the moment, and browsing Twitter for a good #photography article...Any suggestions ???
— Travis Nance (@TN_Photography) January 7, 2014

What makes you itch?

This video has described everything that I have ever wanted to do. There is a great deal of truth to this as well, because I can relate!  There are so many factors that keep people from achieving what they want to.  Everything from, fear of being criticized, to not enough money, to the fear of failure. What would happen if we were to dive in, and do whatever it was that made us happy?  I have always thought that if anyone wanted to be a underwater basket-weaver after mastery they would turn a fee, and possibly change the world.  Besides, how many under-water basket weavers do you know?  

- Take a short 3 minutes out of your day and watch this!

New Year 2014

 

                

      In all honesty I gave up on New Year's resolutions several years ago.  Not because I was never able to achieve any of them, but because I was never able to follow through with any of them.   Of course, there is there ever popular weight loss goal (I say that as I am sitting here drinking Green Tea, and chomping down on peanut clusters) the goal to make more time for yourself, love more, or just to be a better person.  Maybe at some point it was the intervention a life that kept me from proceeding with resolutions, or maybe it was that I was younger and that I knew that I had plenty of time to change myself.
     When I attempted to do the weight loss, I DID! I lost the weight, made an attempt to eat more healthier and it really worked. My downfall was that I was not able to maintain the resolution, and I found myself starting from scratch the following year. I think that the older we get, we gain a greater sense of responsibility, maturity, and appreciation for those and the things around us. (AND HUMOR>>>DONT FORGET HUMOR - EVERYONE NEEDS A GOOD LAUGH!)
     So this year I decided to called it a more of a achievement than a resolution. So I started rather small and this is what I came up with. (I decided to steer clear of the more common ones)

-     I want to work more on my trade.  So I have made it a daily goal to read at least one photography related article every day, and try to teach myself something new. If I learn something, I fully intend to share.

-    My next one is too read more, and by that I mean books.  I have a small collection of books that I want to read, but some of them have never even been open.

-  My next one is to dive head-first into the photo industry.  Starting your own business came be a little terrifying, but there is plenty of resources available and I intend to use every one of them.

-  Lastly, I do have a few more in the works, but I will keep them to myself until the time is right.  Until then I will focus on maintaining the goals that I have already accomplished - and just broaden my horizons a little more.

Cheers!

P.S. - keep an eye out for a update, as I will keep you posted on my progress.