Hello one, hello all!
I don't really have a specific layout in mind for this post, and I apologize in advance if it is all over the place.
I have two portrait sessions lined up. Both of them are with fellow photographers. One of them does it for work, the other does it for pleasure. I must say that having a fellow photographer choose your work out of all their other options means a lot.
I have also been asked by one of the aforementioned photographers to be her second shooter at four already-scheduled weddings. I'm looking forward to it. The first one is in three weeks.
(I'm still waiting for final confirmation from her, but last I knew, Thundercats are go.)
My Associate of Arts degree will be completed in May 2012, which means that next semester is my last semester at (this) college, and I need to take whatever classes I've been wanting to take.
One class on my "definitely taking" list is studio photography. It will be good to get more experience using lighting techniques and different lights. (I only have my lightstand and bounce / diffuse umbrella right now. Hot lights and an off-camera flash are on my "someday" list.)
There is a lot of chatter going on about my man and I moving to Denver.
The city has more opportunities for him, with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture. It would also present him with a larger audience to possibly continue working in video game design, which he's been doing as a freelancer for the last couple of years.
Denver also has Metropolitan State University, which is, in my opinion, a better school than the local state university here. (It teaches more in-state graduates than any other university in Colorado.)
...and, with Denver being a bigger city, there are, theoretically, more job opportunities there. There are definitely more job opportunities for people with a creative schtick (like my boyfriend and I) than there are in our podunk part of the state.
(I'm not knocking rural living, or UNC, by any means... They're fine for people for whom they're suited. Creative types are not suited for making a living in the country, and I've already done the UNC route, so....no.)
...so that's what's going on in my part of the world.