…this is a year that will live in
the infamy of my own personal history.
It will be the year that marks a time when I finally made the plunge; that
I stuck my neck out there and found my place in a town that I had not really
felt a part of until these last few recent months. So much has happened since September that my
memories of last January seem like a distantly vague acknowledgment of
inconsequential nothingness in comparison, but I can say that I did not foresee
all that has happened and most likely will continue happening for me in 2013. In fact, during January of last year, I was
happily living the humdrum little life of a quiet little homemaker, taking only
the jobs that I wanted to while caring for my beautiful, amazing boys from the safe
confines of my quiet little home…and yet here I am contemplating and planning
out January of 2013 in a studio that has become as much of a part of defining who
I am as my family has been. I foresee a
new definition of my person emerging and that one not only includes the lovely
family that I have, but the community that I have immersed myself in as I move
forward in my business and my new space.
I
love that all of the people that have come into the door of my little space have
not only embraced me, but have embraced my family, too. It was so important to me since my sons and
my husband are so much a part of how I see myself. As some of you know, my sons are Autistic and
I really feel that this sort of public and social forum can only help them as
we maneuver through the twists and turns of a new year full of
possibilities. I hope that as I move
forward that this business can continue to represent the very best in family
values, to encourage the vision (that is ever changing and evolving) that I
hope the studio will become, and that I will be able to continue to offer only
the best in photography to people.
Part
of offering the best in photography to others has been getting to know each
family and person that walks through the simple little door of my tiny little
space. It has been a labor of love to
understand the people behind the pictures…each of you is so amazing that I want
to make sure that each photo is a representation of who you are. A person can have perfect lighting,
composition, and framing…but if it says nothing about ‘who’ the people are and
is not flattering, I do not feel that I have done my job.
So
here’s to all of the new people in 2013 that I have yet to have met, here’s to
all of the people that will come back to see me, and here’s to the changes that
lie ahead! The future isn’t marked and I
can only see the endless possibilities of something amazing awaiting the future
of DJMdesigns…which is really me. I
suppose at some point, I will have to loosen the shackles of shyness and quit
referring to the business as a third party acquisition but a relevant and
essential part of me.
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