As some of you who follow my blog might know I do a month to month of baby Hannah Joy and we are getting close to her big turning 1 day. She is in such a funny stage, little, cute, funny and demanding, yes demanding. Little Miss Joy sure knows what she wants and that is to explore. She is exploring moving from one piece of furniture to the next, to being on the tip of her toes to finding big things on her hair and not wanting them, at least not on her head. It is interesting to observe how children even at a very young age have their own tastes and wants and they go for it. Many of us adults lose that childlike faith and we have tastes and wants and we many times do not go for it. I read a great post on J*’s blog today and she interviewed the first blog that she really followed’s auther and it stated the following.

Before the publisher of my first memoir Straight Up And Dirty became my publisher, she’d read my book proposal about moving on after living in an awful relationship with a husband whom I came to refer to as the “wasband.” Then, she scoured my blog. She read writing samples, saw that I photographed red carpet events, and noted that New York’s Hotel Gansevoort furnished all it’s rooms, suites, and corridors with my photography. She wanted to know, “Now, wait. Are you a photographer or a writer?”

Rather than responding, “Both,” I simply told her, “I’m a storyteller.” Sometimes I tell it with a lens, and sometimes it comes out in words. Really, it depends what I have on hand. Photography and writing are simply different vehicles, different mediums of storytelling. And yeah, they utilize a different skill set, but the attention to detail is the same. Capturing that gesture takes technique, but noticing it takes talent. Technique you can learn, but talent is instinct.

What I’ve learned as a storyteller is that it takes courage (and a modicum of confidence) to move in the direction of your dreams. It’s not about finding your “voice” or your unique “style.” It’s not about mimicking the style of those you admire. It’s about having the courage to do it your way, without apologies. It’s about taking risks. Letting go of the familiar, pushing your boundaries and exploring. Taking a different path home each day, sitting at a restaurant alone for dinner, leaving what you know, so you’re forced to see things differently.

The post goes on about how the writer is her self and puts herself out there and this is debate sometimes among photographers and bloggers if they are putting too much out there and if it is transparent. Recently I just met in person with a FB friend Jen from Harrington Limo and she said to me after talking, she said you talk just like you write and that was such a compliment because through my blog I want you to know who I am even with my cave woman hair, bad parenting skills, dreamer, big mouth, big heart, late nighter, dreamer, photographer, mother, wife and most importantly Jesus follower. Some days it is almost impossible to have the courage to do it your way and taking risks and letting go cause all around you wants to contain you and to contain your passion and all the self doubts and not being all in clings on to like a plague but you pick your self up, look over things, cry, take deep breaths, watch some t.v, sleep, play with your kids and you get back to the game board and you also see what needs to be done differently. This post was not planned for tonight and these thoughts are spontaneously coming as I write, but this is me, this is Feuza. Here are some sneak peaks of this cutie petutie I did today, can not wait to show you more because we played around with some things and went on exploring.

P.S remember how I said I have not been using photoshop but lightroom presets well there was a great post on actions vs. presets on DPS today and you should check it out.

P.S.S what is the # blog I follow well Justin and Mary- why? beautifully written, incredible sharp images and it gets more updated than I can keep up with and I so  love that. Mary wrote an incredible post of work, blogging, life, check it out here.

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