2010 and 2011 Confessional.
Posted by Josh.H on January 17, 2012
I’ll start off by being quite blunt.
2010 and 2011 were utter failures for me in my attempted photographic careeer.
I have no one to blame but myself, honestly. I look back and I can see where I fell off the path to what I really want, and how I lost my inspiration and focus. A lot of it had to do with my job in the bar industry.
I started out as a busser at a night club in 2009, because the pay was decent enough to pay my bills, while the hours allowed me massive amounts of time to shoot during the week. This went well for the first 5 months, until I got promoted. I refused the offer at first, but they were persistant and I eventually gave in. I began to talk to more people, made more friends, went out a little more. The cycle continued and before you know it by 2010 I was completely submerged in the lifestyle. 2010 and 2011 were full of photographic opportunities…opportunities that I missed because my focus had shifted to a lifestyle that I didn’t have any business being involved with in the first place. I can’t place the blame entirely on being in the bar industry because, well, that would be too easy of a scape goat. There were times where I lost a potential shoot because I failed to check emails, or lost intrest and passed shoots along to other friends who wound up having successful photographic years.
Though not all of it was bad, I’ve learned a lot in these past two years. I’ve learned how to promote and market a product and business. I’ve also gained a ton of people skills, like the ability to talk to complete strangers quite comfortably. I’ve also met some absolutely fantastic people, though i’m still in the process of cutting out the negative from the positive influences.
In the end doors have closed, and all I can do now is learn from my mistakes and work hard to create new opportunities, and be sure to grab at them when they present themselves.
This blog post marks an intervention on myself, and a reminder to keep my eye on the ball.
Here’s to a chapter in my life closing, and looking to the future.
- Thanks for reading.
Oh, and also,I’ll be aiming to update this blog atleast once a week to start, and hopefully start ramping it up in the coming months.
