Create Your Own.....

Here is my umpteenth attempt at hosting a blog- but I have high hopes for this one. My first entry deserves background music. Hit play and enjoy as you read.



This song pulled me out of a creative hiatus. Since moving to Florida, I haven't been motivated to create anything. My art was half-hearted, I tried to write and would get bored within the first few sentences, and even my music collection had suffered.

If you followed my now deleted blog about music, you know the impact music has on me, my life and my creative ability. My friend Sam once told me I was the only person she knew who had a song for every event in my life, significant or insignificant. That's one of my favorite descriptions of me, ever.

This song makes me feel happy and sad, excited and let down, ready to move on and not ready to let go all at the same time. Such has been my experience in Florida to date. It's as though I am always feeling all those emotions at the same time, shifting within me so quickly I don't even notice. As though I blink and it changes. But this song grabbed me, drew my attention to what was going on within me and allowed me to embrace it and create my own.

No, this blog is not going to be some weird and deep outlet for whatever the heck is going on my life, but I had to give you a bit of a back story to how this blog came to be.

I've created this blog to track my newest adventure into the world of photography. In only my first week with the camera, it's become my favorite medium.

Over the past couple weeks I've been googling, "How I started out in photography" or "what to take pictures of" and "how to take a good picture", and walking away unsatisfied, having not gotten the answers I wanted. I wanted someone to spell it out for me, a step by step, no fail program.

But then it dawned on me, there is no "right" way to begin, you just have to create your own story, hence the title of this post. :)

So here I go, starting with the very basics, the only place I know how to begin, we all have to start somewhere- a cliche name for a blog (I mean come on, say cheese?) and a cliche picture of me taking a picture of myself. I look forward to using less and less cliches over the next few weeks ;)



Thank you so much for stopping by my new blog! I hope to see you again soon! <3
-CB