So with all the running around the last few days between shoots and kids and loving my new accounting software (all hail FRESHBOOKS) I completely forgot that MadCris Images is now 4 YEARS OLD THIS WEEK!!! Officially July 11, 2011. 4 YEARS IN BUSINESS AND SOME AMAZING CLIENTS, lots of lessons and tears. But I gotta say I would not change any of it for all the gold in Fort Knox. I have been blessed to work with some amazing companies. Photography some amazing people learn under some unforgettable photographers. WHen I think back to it and look at how far I’ve come and the opportunities that I had i am amazed. But all this is nothing compared to the support I have received. People believed in me. Many times more than I even believed in myself. My publisher saw something in me and gave me my first magazine gig. My clients and people every day comment on my work. I had to get out of my own way and start believing that I was good at my craft. Once I did things changed. I changed. Knowing and believing are very different things, so I have learned. I have a team behind me. I have assistants, a board of directors, I have a stock photography site and I’m planning an award show. I could not do any of this if I didn’t believe in myself and this business FIRST. It starts with you. You can’t worry about making anyone else happy or working hard for anyone else. Photography is personal and although we will always find something to nit pick in our work you have to do the work that fills your soul. I LOVE what I do. Even when my bank account is low and the phone is not ringing I know at my core I AM a photographer. I remember every picture I have taken, every smile that has passed by my lens, every event that I’ve attended. And more importantly they have made an impact on me. I learn something new with every person I photograph, and I am stronger because of this industry. So to the new photographers out there wondering when things will happen and wondering when will success HAPPEN, it will happen in a few tomorrows keep shooting and always take your camera with you. Because our job is to document. No matter what your ‘niche’ at the end of the day you are a photojournalist, you are documenting memories for someones tomorrow.
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- Michael
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- Jim
