Happy Fourth!

Happy Independence Day, everyone! I hope you're grilling brats and hamburgers outside with great friends and family. My family and I are about to grill pretty soon as well. Earlier I sliced a good half of a sack of potatoes to make french fries. We'll be baking those in the oven in the next hour. 

July 4th, 2011

Before the sun had risen this morning, my Dad hung our 8 ft by 5 ft U.S. flag over our garage. It looks beautiful. I photographed it a few minutes ago; while doing so, I recollected on how thankful I am to live in a country where my rights, along with others', are held to the utmost priority. I owe it to our founding fathers that have made this country a strong and independent nation.


In the midst of patriotic excitement and celebration, I am simultaneously celebrating the start of my blog, Foto Kitty. There is so much to learn in the realm of photography but so little patience I possess. I have no choice though. Time waits for no one, and if that means persevering and waiting for overwhelming results then that's what I shall do.


I currently work as an insurance agent for one of the big property & casualty companies. Not the most exciting job out there, but it pays my school loans among other bills. My main dream, however, would be to own my own photography company; do what I love and profit from it. But again, patience is a virtue. I shall reap a much greater reward when it actually happens, right? Yep. I think so too. 


So to help me achieve this sooner rather than later, I have created my blog. I'm giving myself five years starting from today, to reach my entrepreneurial, photographic endeavor. I intend to turn Foto Kitty into a cyber work book for me and anyone else interested in photography. Foto Kitty will be a collage of different techniques which will lean towards more strobist ideology.


In addition, I hope Foto Kitty will help in creating business for me when I'm ready. I am all for building my portfolio and gaining real-time experience currently, even without a fee. However, I plan to soak my feet into wedding, editorial, and/or advertising photography in a couple of years from now. In the next couple of blogs from now, I'll create a visual time-map of  all my main tasks and when I plan to achieve them in order to reach my objective of full-time professional photographer. 


I assume I'm the only one out here that's currently reading my blog. I hope that as months go by, I'll develop a circle of friends that can support each other in our photographic endeavors. If you have any ideas or suggestions then please let me know. Thanks in advance and welcome to Foto Kitty.