A couple of years ago I came across an issue of Professional Photographers Magazine that featured weddings. I eagerly flipped thru all the pages sucking up all the information that I could on other photographers and how they approached wedding photography.
Every now and then I'd come across a page or two with helpful tips and I would circle the comment and place a star next to it in hopes that at a later date I would get back to it and have some sound advice or an idea of what direction I was going to take myself.
Before I knew it I was tracking down all the photographers who sparked an interest and stumbled on a website that would literally change my life : Jasmine Star's Website. For anyone who knows me, you would know that when I speak photography I always mention something about Jasmine Star because I absolutely admire and love the girl. I feel like she's family even though I've never met her in person and I relate to so many things that she blogs about that I feel a certain kinship to her. I also relate because despite the fact that I look like a full on white girl I am half Mexican, for all I know she and I could be related at some point down the blood line... maybe I could be like her 20th cousin removed: you never know.
I speak to my husband like Jasmine is one of my closest friends "Well you know Jasmine's dog has rain shoes" or "Jasmine posted today about all these inappropriate text messages and she made me laugh so hard I thought I was going to die", "Jasmine is so much fun", "I can't talk right now I'm watching Jasmine live, be quiet!". It's insane I know but when I like someone I just can't shut up.
I have followed Jasmine's blog consistently every day and in some cases when life gets to hectic every second or in rare cases even the 3rd day. I have posted in her blogs that she needs to make a trip to Georgia and how I'd give an arm and a leg just to be able to meet her to say thank you in person for being an inspiration, for being so real and open. She's made me realize that I'm going to mess up, I'm going to struggle but that if I just keep at it I too can be successful at something that I'm passionate about. So today I almost passed out cold on the floor when I realized that she had blogged that she was going to be speaking at WPPI this coming Monday September 25th and she was giving away tickets to someone who would post a comment on her blog THIS MORNING.
I was MORTIFIED, almost moved to tears because I missed the opportunity to beg and bug her for 2 days straight to try and justify why I need to get that free ticket into WPPI. So I just got done about an hour ago mustering up the last bit of hope that she'll still read my pathetic comment of desperation and will have an Opera moment where she'll surprise me and call me on the phone and tell me to come and see her cause she's giving me free tickets, and completely overlook the fact that I posted it like 24 hrs. too late.
All I can do is hope, and pray, and pray again for a miracle.
Every now and then I'd come across a page or two with helpful tips and I would circle the comment and place a star next to it in hopes that at a later date I would get back to it and have some sound advice or an idea of what direction I was going to take myself.
Before I knew it I was tracking down all the photographers who sparked an interest and stumbled on a website that would literally change my life : Jasmine Star's Website. For anyone who knows me, you would know that when I speak photography I always mention something about Jasmine Star because I absolutely admire and love the girl. I feel like she's family even though I've never met her in person and I relate to so many things that she blogs about that I feel a certain kinship to her. I also relate because despite the fact that I look like a full on white girl I am half Mexican, for all I know she and I could be related at some point down the blood line... maybe I could be like her 20th cousin removed: you never know.
I speak to my husband like Jasmine is one of my closest friends "Well you know Jasmine's dog has rain shoes" or "Jasmine posted today about all these inappropriate text messages and she made me laugh so hard I thought I was going to die", "Jasmine is so much fun", "I can't talk right now I'm watching Jasmine live, be quiet!". It's insane I know but when I like someone I just can't shut up.
I have followed Jasmine's blog consistently every day and in some cases when life gets to hectic every second or in rare cases even the 3rd day. I have posted in her blogs that she needs to make a trip to Georgia and how I'd give an arm and a leg just to be able to meet her to say thank you in person for being an inspiration, for being so real and open. She's made me realize that I'm going to mess up, I'm going to struggle but that if I just keep at it I too can be successful at something that I'm passionate about. So today I almost passed out cold on the floor when I realized that she had blogged that she was going to be speaking at WPPI this coming Monday September 25th and she was giving away tickets to someone who would post a comment on her blog THIS MORNING.
I was MORTIFIED, almost moved to tears because I missed the opportunity to beg and bug her for 2 days straight to try and justify why I need to get that free ticket into WPPI. So I just got done about an hour ago mustering up the last bit of hope that she'll still read my pathetic comment of desperation and will have an Opera moment where she'll surprise me and call me on the phone and tell me to come and see her cause she's giving me free tickets, and completely overlook the fact that I posted it like 24 hrs. too late.
All I can do is hope, and pray, and pray again for a miracle.
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