I've actually been working very hard on my portfolio lately. As fun as it is to "take photos of pretty girls", I actually do have a point with my efforts and am working towards a goal. I think I'm finally gaining the technical prowess and rapport with my subjects to work on the next evolution of my craft, which is not simply getting "a" good image, but something more important to commercial photography - getting a consistent look and feel to a batch of images.

I hate to think of it as defining a style, because I'm really all over the place in terms of the tenor of what I want to shoot. I suppose we all have a "style" and it is important to have a recognizable mark about your work. Still, and I realize I may be completely deluding myself but, I hope to have a body of work that people like and still can find diversity in.

So as I've said, I've been working really hard at it lately. Booking a lot more shoots than a man working full-time probably should. I've used personal time and vacation days to schedule shoots, when needed. This week I was to have three days of shooting. One was today with a model from Boston. She blanked me. Pulled a no-call / no-show. No big deal, really. It's part of this "business", I guess. But it means I trudged my ass into the office instead of doing something creative which I love doing.

To make matters worse, I have a good friend from Providence that was coming up for a couple days (Wed/Thurs) to pretty much hang out nekkid for a couple days and do my bidding in front of my lens. She let me know today that she's sick with the flu and needs to push it out. Next week the girlfriend's son is up (school vacation), so having a naked woman hanging out is probably ill-advised. Which leaves us with the week after. Two weeks away, and Lord only knows what will come up between now and then which may prevent her from coming up. I've been looking forward to shooting with her for about 6 weeks now.

So instead of having 3 very productive days to work on my portfolio, I get to spend the entire week in the office, doing "the man's" bidding. Not very much fun. At least I have a shoot on Sunday with 3 models to look forward to.... unless something comes up to bash that shoot to oblivion as well [grrrrrrrrrrrrr].