Photography life is going amazingly

It's funny how all it takes to throw me into self doubt and trigger imposter syndrome is just a little bit of doing really well. The business pivot that I've recently done, into capturing musicians and live music, has put my work in front of a whole new audience, and I'm feeling a little bit off-kilter being viewed as "new" to my industry because I'm new to theirs.

That's not to say that anyone has been negative in any way at all. Quite the opposite, in fact. I've been complimented so fantastically by everyone I've worked with, but I can't help feeling like it comes a little bit from surprise or "encourage the newbie" headspace, when I've been doing this professionally for the better part of a decade. It's a weird place to be, inside my own head.

With all of that said, I've been putting in the hours and doing the work, and I'm already feeling like my work is improving as I find my style. I'd originally intended to specialise in black and white, but I'm finding that I need to be a bit flexible on that, because all of the clients so far have asked for colour images as well.

In addition, I did the accommodation organising, and ran a presentation, for a camp away with photography people, and I don't know how the fuck tour operators and photographic educators do it. That's pretty much all I have to say about that while it's all still fresh in my brain, but maybe later when I've had time to process, I'll go into the details of why I definitely will not be becoming an educator any time soon.