Entering the New Year Bravely
This Portrait & Pet Photographer’s Brave Decision to Do Absolutely Nothing
Self Portrait
While the rest of the world greets January 1st with goal-setting, vision boards, colour-coded planners and the sudden urge to “be their best self,” your local portrait & pet photographer (me) has chosen a different path.
This photographer has entered her natural post-December state: horizontal.
This is a braver path, filled with life-threatening, artery clogging potential, paved as it is, with cookies, coffee and absolutely zero productivity.
It is also, if I am honest, splattered with the odd Gin and Tonic come nightfall.
The New Year for this photographer is traditionally spent doing very important industry tasks such as:
Staring at the laptop without opening Lightroom
Moving the mouse slightly so the computer doesn’t go to sleep along with moving my butt cheeks so they don’t go to sleep also
Thinking about editing; but more in the future
Wondering if anyone uses a Fax anymore
Writing and snorfling at stuff I cannot possibly publish in this blog for fear of being perceived as an unserious photographer
(So it goes straight to my Cathy Dee Author Facebook page).
Friends will ask, “So are you working today?”
No.
Absolutely not.
But thank you for checking in thinking I might be though; I admire your optimism.
So today, I rest with the cats; full of hopes and dreams and coffee.
Together we scroll. We rediscover Cat TV (yes there really is such a thing) We snack. I consider setting New Year’s resolutions such as “just do Fine Art Photography” and “stop undercharging” and “say no to shoots that involve six children, three dogs, and a goat” — then immediately lie down again.
Because if the New Year is about fresh starts, then the photographer’s fresh start begins tomorrow. Or the next day. Or possibly mid-January.
Until then, we (the cats and I) do nothing.
But you can be sure, we will do it fabulously.
The Fine Art Images I will be producing from the New Year - This is little Jamieson, a dear little boy I photographed at the end of last year.