I Can Feel It...

Spring that is.  I don't know about everyone else out there, but if you are like me you have about gone stir crazy at this point.  There have been little teases here and there that the warmer weather might be ready to take hold, only to be whisked away by another cold snap.  This Saturday, for us anyway, was really the first warm day.  It was a beautiful weekend.  Sunshine and a light breeze.  Perfect time for everyone to whip out their shorts and let the paleness blind your neighbors.

Christina and I have been working really hard lately, so she was the first to stand up and say lets go out to the Greenway!  The Greenway being a wonder system built by the town here with roughly 12 miles of path to walk around various parts of the city.  It can, and often times is, a photographers dream.  So we grabbed our cameras and set off for adventure.  Having no idea if we would find anything we set off to be one among the rest of the warm weather chasers.

We get to the park and set off with excitement.  Thinking everything would be dead we starting honing our keen eyes on anything and everything, sizing them up for photos.  I brought in a rather nice hall from the Greenway.  After having our fill for the time, we set back off to the house.

We felt just a wee bit guilty partaking in the lovely weather without our pup Java. So after a bit of a walk around the house scouring for bugs to macro, we set off to our own sanctuary near our home to see what we could find.  We also use this time to let Java run wild.  He is an energetic dog to say the least.

Warm weather + family + cameras in hand = perfection....who knew?  So here are a few of the many pictures I took as proof that Spring is coming.  Enjoy!

The Beginning

I have been into photography for several years now.  I never really got into it for monetary reasons.  It has, and will always, be something I do for therapeutic reasons.  It has always been my way of expressing that creative side of myself and a way to take my mind off of things when necessary.  I'm not the most verbal person in the world.  I think that is obvious by the lack of consistent blog posts.  Photography is a way for me to express myself when I lack the words, or the ability, to actually say something.

Over the past weekend, my wife and I got away.  Well by getaway I mean I was able to tag along with her on one of her out of town art shows.  There were three photographers setup at this show.  I admired all of their work.  They certainly deserved to be there.  It got me to thinking about selling prints of my own work.  Now mind you, I have thought about this before.  There have been several times I have said I thought I could be at one of those shows.  Then of course I always back off of that way of thinking.  I am my own worst critic and I have this horrible fear of failure/rejection.  I love my work, but what if others don't?  What if no one wants to buy anything I have?  These are the types of questions that nag at me and hold me back.

As all of these thoughts buzzed through my head, I had pulled out my phone and was about to look over my flickr stream one of Christina's friends came over.  She started talking about various things and the subject of my photography came up.  She was a fan of my work and discussed a few opportunities with me.  Then another friend of Christina's joined in and then it became a major push between the three of them.  They all encouraged me a lot.  I'm not going to lie; the thought of it all terrified me.

Since the show, I scoured my flickr page and pulled what I felt were the best of my images.  Tonight I started a facebook page for my photography.  Starting tonight, I am selling prints of my photography for those interested.  JWB Photography is officially here.  I thank everyone for their support, encouragement, guidance, and most of all pushing me to do this.  It means a lot.