In what feels like just a blink of the eye, summer of 2023 is over. The temperature is getting cooler, the leaves are turning, the seasons are changing.
With the seasons changing, so have I.
Hey there! It feels like it has been forever since I sat down and had time to write a blog post. Let's be honest time has gotten away from me the past year or so.
After I found boudoir, I knew I found my calling and where my passion lies.
Since then, it has been a whirlwind.
When the seasons change, a lot of other things change as well. There have been many changes in my life, the biggest change and impact has been the passing of my father.
When my dad passed away May 20th to Cancer, I lost a part of myself. I truly felt like a part of me went into the ground with him. It wasn't just his body and the casket that got buried; but a chunk of my soul went with him. I don't know how else to describe it other than a part of me went into the ground with him.
As much as I was hurting, I knew my dad wanted me to push through. I could hear his voice telling me to push through and to be strong.
May 1st I started a Photography journey and, unknowingly, a personal growth journey as well when I started Denise Birdsong's intensive mentorship education program called Stripped Down: The Art of Emotive Photography.
I went into the course ready to learn what I needed to know to be a better photographer, but I had no idea how it was going to teach me so much more about myself first.
My dad gave everyone a "final talk" except for me.
I often wondered why he didn't feel the need to tell me his final words.
But deep down I know that there was a reason.
He knew that the path that I was on is where I needed to be.
I just completed Stripped down with Denise Birdsong, and it has been four months since my father passed.
To say that I am the same person and photographer that I was a few months ago, would simply be untrue.
Denise Birdsong changed my life. She changed the way that not only do I see life but how I see photography, and how I see everything.
She made me not only learn photography musts, but more importantly she taught me about myself.
She changed me. She changed the way I viewed myself, the way I viewed life, the way I viewed photography, the way I viewed everything.
In the past four months, I have learned a whole new photography state of mind, but I also had to learn a new computer, new editing software, and a new proofing website software, but also a new camera with totally different Technolgy.
With all of these changes, you could say, I am a whole new photographer, a whole new Crystal.
I think it is safe to say that the Crystalized Photography will never be the same again. There is so much to look forward to in the future and I am so excited for all the wonderful things coming my way!!!
Stay tuned It's going to be quite an adventure!
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