I know that it’s been a while since I posted anything – and I don’t want to let this blog just sit here with nothing for the new year posted.  I’m prematurely excited for 2010; I’ve had this feeling for the last couple of months that I’m sitting at a crossroads.  Both personally and professionally.  I have this feeling that something is going to happen for me this year, this is going to be the year for me.  I have a couple of posts in the works right now:

• I had a wedding December 26th(yes the day after Christmas), that I shot as a second shooter!

• I’m going to post my new year’s resolutions.

I know, I know (about the resolutions) everybody is making them and posting them on Facebook, Tweeting them, blogging them.  But that’s not why I’m doing it.  In the past I’ve made resolutions and then not followed through, because there didn’t seem to be accountability.  They didn’t seem concrete.  They were just words in the January air, they left my mouth and then kept going and going, until they were out of sight and out of mind.

Blogging, just adds a permanence to my thoughts, so that I or anyone can go back to that post and say “See, you said that you were going to do this and you didn’t” You broke your resolutions. I think that because in the past, I just like everyone else, seemed to make resolutions that we all knew in our heart of hearts that we weren’t going to follow through with, we were stretching too far.  You know the “I’m going to stop smoking” resolutions – when you’ve been a 3 pack a day smoker for the last 10 years.  Or I’m going to run 5 miles everyday, but you really haven’t been exercising on a regular basis.  The goal is too big – therefore too easy for you to give up on.  I’m going to make some smaller goals that I actually will follow through with, and there by giving me momentum to accomplish something bigger!

Now I know the rule with photographer’s blogs is that we can be serious with our words, but there usually has to be a photo accompanying the words, so here’s a self portrait of me looking serious…or looking toward the near future: