Pilot Week

Well my first week of working from anywhere is almost done. It has been amazing. I have been very busy and spent my day time hours working for the La Ronge Ice Wolves all from either the cabin deck or the beach. I have been so relaxed yet busy but relaxed at the same time. I am able to focus and work and be so productive that I am so proud of this first week of life in marketing full time. I have Covid to thank for this. So many businesses paved the way for meetings over the phone or zoom calls and so on.

My evenings have been spent editing or working for others on their Social Media Platform. I have been able to record a few podcasts and write a few blogs. I decided that the only way to make this work would be to schedule myself in real time. Write things out in my dsayplanner, cross them off and get things done. That has been huge for my business and my family. Now the work never stops so I do need to remember this and so does my family but overall the balance is way better than it has been since October of 2021.

Above I posted some images of the sunset from the cabin deck last night. Wow. The sunsets here are as beautiful as they are at home. I love sunsets and sunrises. As cheesy as that sounds they just are so beautiful and bring me such joy that its impossible for me to not just sit and watch for a few minutes. Last night when the kids went to bed I was out there until right before bed. My husband joined me out there after he got the kids to bed and we had some time to chat about my future shoots and for me to share some of my past work. His go to phrase when I show I'm something I am swooning over is "Good Job", in this tone like I am 6 ha. But I love it, I love how proud of me he is and how much he supports me even though he hates how much of a workaholic I have become. Yet he understands this is the time I have to be like that.

I am getting sidetracked this is to be about week 1 of remote work. I have really loved having this flexibility and freedom to work hard even though I am not in the office. I have enjoyed that what I had envisioned my day to day life becoming is now my reality. I have even been able to pull my camera out just for fun, where as before I hadn't had as much time for this as I once had. This has been great for me. Just last night as I had my camera out to take these photos of the sunset my dad was looking at the results on my camera and I got talking about my settings vs what would come up on his iPhone. He goes ok lets test this out. Based on my setting my image came out just like what we saw, his was way off. It was a fun comparison and we both said his still showed how beautiful the sunset was but commented how my setting got mine so true. A simple conversation/task that I will probably remember for ever. When people take interest in my work, I take pride in that. I quickly sent my photos to my mom and dad that night from our days adventure and it was nice getting to send them some photos of them. I have been so far away from them for years, and when I visit it was normally just for 1 night and then back home. This is amazing for all of us that we get to spend so much time together now. This is exactly why I needed to make this big life leap. This week one has just been fantastic.

This weekend I am second shooting a wedding. This will be my first gig as a second shooter and I am looking forward to this. I will also be doing Mermaid Mini Shoots at the Cabin this weekend, so stay tuned for more photos and most likely videos of what I get up to this weekend.