Happy New Year!
When starting off a new year, many of us reflect on the previous year and make a list – short or long – of resolutions we want to accomplish during the course of the year. For myself, my journey with photography has been one with many ups and many downs. Overall, I can say that photography is a hobby that makes me genuinely happy and allows me to express my creativity in ways I never imagined.
I have gone back and forth between portrait and landscape photography. My ultimate goal at one point was to become a wedding photographer – something about capturing love and happiness attracted me to it. I figured I would first need to build my portrait portfolio in hopes of landing my first wedding. Long story short, I quickly found out that dealing with people (personalities, finances, demands, etc.) just wasn’t my thing. Even the ones I asked time and time again to shoot, for free, I had to chase down. It took away from my passion for photography. I put all my equipment away and even stopped taking pictures of my two kids, which is the reason why I fell in love with photography! After a long, late night talk with my fiancée, she helped me realize that portrait photography just wasn’t for me and helped me re-focus on what I love most (besides shooting my two kids) – landscape/cityscape photography.
With a renewed focus and determination to capture amazing images, I decided to completely redesign my website to showcase my work and push forward with my landscape/cityscape photography. In just the last two weeks, I have been able to capture amazing lighthouses in Maine and Rhode Island (I had never seen a lighthouse in person prior to this!) and the longest suspension bridge in New England, the Claiborne Pell Bridge aka the Newport Bridge. This was just the start and I plan to visit and photograph all types of beautiful locations and monuments in New England and across the United States. Of course, I will also continue to photograph Massachusetts and aspire to be one of the best cityscape photographers in Boston!
Feel free to leave some suggestions of places to photograph in the comment section!
