What do you mean I can't turn the kitchen into a full scale model..."

Mock-Up

They always say the first festival is the hardest. Six weeks out and I'm agreeing adamantly. Trying to pick a set number of photos that I feel best represents my work. Harder than it sounds with over 400 pieces currently on my website... And what I like isn't always representative of what other people like.  Trying to decide what size of prints and how many. (Having only sold smaller pieces up to this point the question becomes how big is too big...)

And I find myself having photographer's block. All these questions, and the current answer to most of them is "I don't know..."

Some of the blog articles on the subject say to pick a show piece that will draw people to your booth. Okay but which "show piece" to pick. I think ALL the photos on my site are varying degrees of awesome because they made it to the site. The mediocre ones didn't make it out of Bridge.

Trying to spec out the layout in Illustrator isn't giving me the perspective I need, and I somehow think the other occupants of the house might object to my turning the kitchen into a full scale model. Weirdos.  What's a girl to do but head to Home Depot, buy correctly-sized corner posts, and create a full scale model in the back yard.

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Wondering Why

Touch of Lotus

There are days I sit here and wonder why...  Why I bother to add all this stress into my life...  If I've lost my mind to complicate my life so...  Filing out LLC documents and submitting Articles of Organization, researching tax forms and accountants.  Attempting to pick only a few shots for submission in contests and for printing, for cards and prints, for display at art shows.  It fills my mind when I should be sleeping, haunts my days with to-do lists and deadlines, makes me hesitate (not too much though) buying the next set of plants to photo.

And then at the end of the day I sit down and finally put aside the organizational nightmare and actually get back to processing the photos I've taken the week before.  And find my inspiration again.

Sometimes there isn't "why" so much as "why not"...

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