<span class="drop_cap">I</span>t's true what people say about having a photography business: you spend about 90% of your time on the business side of it as opposed to the photography side. Actually I think people say that a photographer's success is based 80% on business, 20% on skill or something like that, but regardless, there's some statistical saying that says that once you start a business, the business part of it is very consuming.

Very true. I find myself actually behind the camera less often now because every second of my time is spent on business related details and tasks. I am a perfectionist and want my clients to only have the absolute best, and that takes a lot of time, a lot of work, and a lot of trial and error. I'm constantly trying to improve everything from workflow to product offerings to quality of prints.

So in light of that, I want to do something kind of fun today that just focuses on photography itself. Even though my week's still crazy busy with the business side of photography (which I enjoy as well), I 've decided that throughout the day today, I'm going to take at least one photo an hour starting when I wake up for the day. I'll also continue to post them throughout the day instead of waiting until the day's over so check back throughout! It'll probably get kind of chaotic because I have a busy day but I'm excited to have a fun little self-assignment to take photos of my life as it happens. I think my blogging friends should do it too. Just grab your point-and-shoot and have fun!
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<strong>8:45<small>AM</small></strong>: My husband actually started out my day by taking photos of me and my baby sleeping. Yes, I was still asleep (or I should say <em>back </em>asleep) at 8:45. My little girl decided to wake up in the middle of the night wanting to just talk and play, so I ended up falling back asleep in her room sometime after that.

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