On an Inspiration Craze

Yesterday the full blast of confusion hit me when I realized that I had NO goals, NO homework, NO deadlines, and NO exceptions since school is over. So I got to work, scribbling goals in my journal related to running, writing, and etc. After I set down my notebook, I felt something watching me, pulling me like an overactive magnet. Glancing over, I noticed the stack of brand new Professional Photography magazines my mom bought me sitting in the corner of my room, luring me, urging me to take a look at them. So I did.

At that point in time, my hopes were almost drained dry about being a photographer when I grow up. The annoying inner-critique of mine kept on bothering me.

You don't even have a real camera yet... 

You're too shy to be taking pictures of other people...

Let alone, you're too shy to start your own photography business...

Businesses are boring anyway...

Scrambling to the magazines, I flipped open to a random page, finding an article talking about four different photographers and how they made their photography business great. I read through the article, soaking up the information like a dried up sponge being chucked into an ocean. One of the photographers that the article discussed was about a young, twenty-year-old, Canadian girl named Jamie Delaine. She definitely sparked my interest in the article because they described her to be...
A coffee lover, check...
In love with fashion and design, check...
Organized, check...
A photographer, check...
A runner, check...
Loves to write and blog, blog, and blog, check...
Obsessed with traveling, check...
And last but not least... a Christian! CHECK!!!!

Sound familiar anyone?

Well anyway, I checked out her blog, and I fell in love instantly. She taught me that Photography isn't just taking pictures, its showing your love, your faith and your personality. It's about being bright, colorful, and fun. It's a LOT of blogging, and showing love and caring for your customers. And most of all, it doesn't matter what age you are. She became a photographer when she was sixteen.

Thank you, Jamie Delaine, for injecting an extreme amount of hope, dreams and inspiration into me, to fuel me, so I could land on my planet of success.