The hours slip by. Then the days. The weekend flies by as I try to fit in household upkeep, parenting, shopping, laundry, and the odd location search. Monday rolls up and I awake at 5am to head to another 12 hour day. These 60 hour weeks take their toll and mostly on my creativity and photography.
Now as some of you may know I moved recently and did so very minimally and with little money. So, this work schedule is a means to an end to raise money to catch up and build up the bank account. The few shoots I have managed have been TFP or as part of the team for an event. I want to do more but money and time make that difficult right now.
I understand why so many hobby photographers are older because they can find the capital and the time a little easier. Yes, I am older too, but I took some risks and they didn’t pay out so this is the consequence of that risk. I knew it and I accept it.
However, behind the scenes so-to-speak, I am planning because that is just me. I have a few things in the fire as well as my day job. They won’t happen until next year but the foundations are being built now. That also takes time so the shutter button is getting dusty.
Finding time for my hobby is a question of choice. Life is a series of choices and consequences. I can choose my choice but not the consequence. An act of balancing needs and wants. For a creative, often I find I need to create as much as I want to so the equilibrium gets skewed. In that case I will find the time and create.
If I could find clients here in the new city and then find an outlet to sell more work then I could relax more at work. However, selling work isn’t an easy task and although I have sold some prints of my work, these sales are by no means a regular occurrence.
And here lies the quandary for so many artists. Art versus income, creativity versus time, productivity versus inspiration. Now, I making les than I was with my own business, I feel the time crunch even more. I know it won’t be forever, but it is a very real situation. It takes a toll if I lose hope and objectivity. Patience is such a key skill for me in keeping my goals aligned with reality.
So, thanks for reading and for your interest in my situation and my words. This blog and my Patreon have suffered most during this time but I am thinking of altering my Patreon to be the only place to find my uncensored work and the prices will reflect this.
So, thanks again and I can’t state how much a Patreon support could help me now. Hint, hint LOL.