Thoughts on a slammed back door

If you haven't heard, I am self-employed. I am now a member of the artistic community, and, please turn off your laugh track. I said artistic community. No, please turn off your laugh tracks. TURN THEM OFF.

For whatever reason, God has immensly blessed Ashley and I with the ability for me to work from home - be with my kids and my wife, running a home business, and it is excelling. What an adventure! Home business is great - it's exciting, challenging, rewarding, and stressful all wrapped up into one. Balancing work and family is a challenge. Photography is a challenge. Nailing composition, exposure, and truly documenting someones wedding seamlessly while coming in and out of different locations is a challenge. But, I continue to improve, and continue to love it more. Nearly 40 weddings this year - and I'm stoked for each of them.

And yes, we shot last weekend. Ash and I left this particular wedding seriously refreshed, stoked for MARRIAGE and not just a wedding, and reaffirmed in our love for each other. Their vows did that to us. You know a wedding was good when it had that.

And on top of all of this, my skills have improved and continue to improve. I recently took my favorite "shot of the year". As a photographer, I know that one strives to continue improvement for a lifetime and when you get it - when you see it displayed right out of the camera without any photoshop work - when you know that it was YOU who took it - that all culminates into one of the greatest feelings you can have as an artist, I'm convinced.

So, I'm displaying it for my blog readers. I've called it: "Slamming the back door" and it's my first, real, piece of art. Let me know what you think.

**Editted to ADD: removed the pic. It was not kind. Or art.