Well goodness it has been a while. After a very slow start to the year, my (much more straight-edged) regular photography and design work kicked into high gear and I have been busying myself with shoots and editing enough to have very little chance to stop and catch my breath. The fact that I've barely left town, let alone the state or the country this year, says it all really!!
But it's good.
I've always had the attitude that life will throw things at you, and if you just open yourself to the possibilities, then you'll see the way forward clearly with time. Of course, patience is the absolute least of my virtues. I've always worked hard for what I have, and I'm happy to when there's something I want. Those closest to me know just how hard I'm willing to push, and how far I'm willing to go when my heart and mind are set on something. There are some things, though, that you just can't make happen, and sometimes they're better if not pushed.
Sometimes, fate just takes a hand.
Ohhhh but that drive in me to get things done, to push on through the difficulties and just make it happen is so strong, and so inate. Lately though, I've been in awe of what can just happen, completely out of the blue. I'm utterly amazed at just how wonderful those things can be. I have had some things happen in my life which are just downright awesome, simply because at the right time they just came along.
One of my clients for my regular work had their camera, which we use to photograph their stock, break unexpectedly. It just so happened that they'd just gotten their hands on an upgraded but very similar camera and had been playing with it when the disaster happened. Thankfully, we were able to quite easily and quickly switch to this new camera and I found that it had a few features that, while they weren't useful in what I was doing for this client, they would be very useful indeed for my Scarlet Harlotte shoots. I happened to have the same camera as these guys previously had, so the seed was planted to upgrade.
Shortly after that happened, I did a little shoot for a dear friend of mine for a birthday party. Driving to the shoot, I pulled my camera out of my mobile office bag in a slightly too heavy-handed manner, and managed to break off a fairly substantial chunk of the plastic surrounding the lens. It still worked well enough to do the shoot and a few other bits and pieces, but it's since been a bit flaky on the focusing and really won't stand up to much more punishment. I really didn't want to get just any old lens though. This one had a zoom that was a lot more than most which come standard with new cameras and I really didn't want to downgrade just for a new one.
Enter, Maurice.
I'd made myself a little email alert from the ads on Gumtree (for the Americans amongst you, it's kinda like Craigslist), and really didn't expect anything from it. So much so, that I generally just deleted the emails without reading them (since I had an idea of how much it would cost, and that I couldn't afford it). One day, whilst doing half a dozen other things (as I am wont to do), my peripheral vision picked up the model number of the camera I wanted in my emails. I checked, and not only was it that camera, but it came with the very lens I was after, and stupidly, incredibly cheap!!! The timing couldn't have been better, and it all worked out swimmingly. So now, I await the arrival of my new camera, Maurice.
There's been a few things like that. Quite a few, in fact. Let's face it Scarlet Harlotte wouldn't exist without the swift hand of fate intervening in a rather fantastic and unusual way. Even the business itself has led me to avenues, and people that I still can't quite believe I've come across. It's amazing the curveballs life throws at us, when we least expect them. It's completely, unfathomably, wonderfully, ridiculously beautiful, when it connects with the bat, just right.
Yep, this post is totally about my camera and my business. No double meanings here. Move on people.... nothing more to read into...
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