Juggling blogging and photography

     When I started thinking about writing a blog, I did not take into consideration what I would have to do. There has been a few late nights for me this past week because I am either editing pictures, doing homework, or working on my blog. I started looking into the ways to make money on my blog, but everything I found involved me spending over $130. If anyone knows me, I do not have that type of money in my hands. I have a son, and a little one on the way. I try to make ends meet by putting money back so we can afford things in the future. I have no clue how I am going to make a blog make money, but we are going to do it by the grace of God because that's how we do everything in this house.

     Until the first of the year, I have decided that I am going to be doing mini photo sessions to make a little money. It isn't going to be hard to do, but getting the clients in order to do it is going to be the problem. I have a little cheap Walmart camera, but it works really well! There are many people that are amazed by how good my camera actually is. I want to make this my life long career so that way my boyfriend can stop working and be able to stay at home and help out with the kids and animals. I am going to try my best to do something huge with my photography so I can become great at it, but I need help getting the word out because it is not easy doing that.

     Over the past few years, I have found my love of taking pictures, and I don't see myself going back on that passion I have. I try to capture the parts in life that people rarely see because it is so beautiful! I hope by this time next year, I will have a huge clientele, and that would be amazing because then I would be able to make a lot of things happen in life. So my goal for the next year is to build up my clientele, and then go from there.

     The clientele is going to be the trickiest part of all because so many people want all of the other local photographers doing their pictures, and it makes it hard for those that want to start the photography business because no one will give them a hand at getting experience. I believe this is why a lot of photographers use their families when trying to base a clientele. I love shooting pictures of my family because it helps me get practice with different people.