I was featured on a blog! Yay! I’m famous! …yeah right. The other day my mother likened me to the Pioneer Woman… I liken this situation to that of someone finding a Youtube video that is HILARIOUS and begins to forward it to all their friends with the subject line, OH MY GOSH YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS, when in reality everyone had watched it… four years ago. (And yes, this happened not too long ago, except it was one of my professors from college who finally found the revolution of dance video. It was apparently life changing for him.) So my mother stumbles upon this woman’s blog, not knowing that she has over 60,000 fans on facebook, multiple books on multiple subjects, and is probably the most heavily stalked blog by moms, aspiring photographers, and farm-women-wanna-bes, and notices that this woman, like me, has a blog and she also, like me, posts about random things and she also, like me, likes photography. Obviously we are one in the same. Maybe one day I will have 60,000 facebook fans, but today is not that day 
No, instead of being featured on the front of The Knot or even on one of Pioneer Woman’s pages, I was posted on the blog of my sweet friend Caitlin, who is soon to be taking the “real” world by storm.
All this to say, I am relatively new in the world of photography and already I am seeing the underlying competition that exists. The blog-stalking that is inevitable, the comparison that is arising, and the need to be the best: to have the most facebook fans, the most twitter followers, and to be known as being not just a good photographer, but a GREAT photographer – these things must be silenced quickly. I am entering photography with the desire to bless others with beautiful pictures, for freedom of expression, creativity, for fun, and most of all, because I feel like this is what God has for this season of my life. Those things are the most important. Who knows what will come of this. Really, it doesn’t matter much, as long as I am following the Lord and smiling all along the way.
So today, I am happy and blessed. Happy to be doing what I love and blessed to have people around me encouraging me to keep going with it. Today, I am featured on Porch Swings & Sunsets by Caitlin Rodgers and today, that is an honor.
This leads me to my first and final question, how do I screen capture? I have a Mac, I feel like I should be able to do this… right?
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