This blog is where my personal and business life intersect. I'm a a multi-passionate creative who teaches people how to create faster roadmaps to abundance in work and life through the doorways of business consulting and reiki teaching. If you'd like a DIY workbook to plan for your own creative living, check out my Pricing Workbook for Creatives. You'll see that I travel the world as often as I can and keep a gratitude journal as a reminder to find strength in my challenges.
I was a full-time professional photographer for 15 years, so there are still many cringe-worthy archives of my early work and artistic journey on this 19 year old blog. I've written loads of creative business advice over on the Photolovecat blog, and have started sharing reiki healing stories and healing moments over on the Abundant Sphere blog. If you'd like to learn more about me, here's a TEDx Talk of what my guiding questions have been to help me tune into my natural gifts and purpose. I'm available for workshops, presentations, interviews, and private consultations on creative business topics and for the advancement of arts programs in schools and communities:
ANNE ON TEDX
WOW. I went a whole week without blogging, which tells you how intense this experience was for me!
I'm still pinching myself because it just felt like a surreal dream to me. The Foundation Workshop 5 gave me the chance to work with some of the most amazing photojournalists and wedding photographers in the country.
I traveled to Dallas, TX for the workshop and started off with a great evening at Gary Donihoo's house, which was absolutely beautiful and a ton of fun! I have to say that Gary seriously intimidated me when he pointed to me after just meeting me and said, "I bet your images are great. I can tell. Show me your images." He then gathered several other people into his office, and put me on the spot by asking me to pull up my website in front of all of these people I had never met before! I think I stopped breathing until I heard someone speak! "Nice. That's good. Yup. I knew I was right about you. I'm glad you didn't embarass me," he said. What an introduction that was!!
Here are some fun pics from Gary's photobooth, which he rents out for weddings. I'm in the lower left with Janine McClintock on top and Davina Fear to the right. Davina and I roomed together and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect roommate. She is such an amazing soul with wisdom and grace that go beyond what most people are willing to share with others. I had admired her work and philosophy for quite some time and was so glad that our paths were meant to intersect at this workshop. I made her give me her autograph so I could say I knew her when she becomes even more famous!
The workshop was split into three teams and my team was led by Huy Nguyen with Anna Kuperberg as an additional mentor. We were each given a photojournalism assignment and had to go out into the field to photographically tell the story of our subjects. I was given a wonderful family who had two sons, one of which had just received a prosthetic leg three weeks earlier and was celebrating his 4th birthday at school on Tuesday. It was such a moving story and when I get more time to go through the nearly 5,000 images I shot, I'll put together a slideshow that I can only hope will do this family justice. It was an incredibly moving experience for me and I feel so fortunate that they let me into their lives to photograph their stories and intimate moments.
After each day in the field, we would meet as a team and our leaders and mentors would edit our work with us, much like a news editor would go through and find the most compelling images that capture the essence of the story. Here's a little clip of Huy, talking to my team about getting the story from a photojournalist's perspective:
Anne, I so wish I could have met you! Thank you for posting the awesome video of Bill's birthday surprise. You guys totally made his day and I could feel like I was there, as well. I can't wait to see everyone's images - especially yours! :)
Hey Anne, glad to put a person to the name now! I loved your story - pimp it out to some local press. See if you can get some honest ink on paper for that!
you're back!! yay!!!!
ReplyDeletegreat work over the week, from your travel-vid to the final presentation. Hugely enjoyable read.
ReplyDeleteAnne! I totally miss you! What an incredible week. I'm so glad I got to spend a lot of it with you.
ReplyDeleteand you are an amazing photographer!
You rock, woman! Such an honor to have met you. And I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of each other! Stick that chest out proud, girlfriend! ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping us abreast :)
ReplyDeleteyou're going to be sooooo good...
Huy
I love you guys!!!!!
ReplyDelete(niiiiiiiiiiice word choice Huy!!!) :-P
Anne, it was great to meet you and see your perspective on life!
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Anne, I so wish I could have met you! Thank you for posting the awesome video of Bill's birthday surprise. You guys totally made his day and I could feel like I was there, as well. I can't wait to see everyone's images - especially yours! :)
ReplyDeleteAnnie Holland
Hey Anne, glad to put a person to the name now! I loved your story - pimp it out to some local press. See if you can get some honest ink on paper for that!
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