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Kite Flying and Photography
May 2009
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Dear :
I've been away to Texas School for photographers this week and learned
tons of stuff. It has given me a new way of looking at my business and
I can't wait to put it all in place.
April was incredibly busy with mostly senior portraits. What fun, though! Below are a couple from the month.
I
will be back in touch soon updating you about the changes. I want to
thank those of you who answered my survey! I am listening to you. I
am going to change things up so that if you want to hear news only and
not information about photography, you can do that. I will give more details on that in a subsequent e-mail.
The survey is
still open, by the way, so feel free to fill it out if you would like
to. Thank you again!
 
Dawn Attebery
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Kite Flying and Photography
A month or so ago, I was at the grocery store and I saw some
kites on sale, so I bought three and have been keeping them in my closet, hidden
from spying eyes, until a school holiday came up. That day, I reached up into my closet to reveal my treasures to the
boys. We all went to Breckinridge Park
to an area without many trees to fly the plastic trash bag-like kites, one
imprinted with Spiderman and one Transformer.
It's Texas,
so of course it was windy enough.
Right off the bat, my older son got the entire tail
entangled with the kite string on a bicycle that was about the only object in
sight. So I spent the first 15 minutes
or so untangling the mess. Then we were
all set.
Flying kites that day reminded me of the main reason why I love
photography. Like kite-flying, photography keeps me in the moment. While flying the kite, I found myself
focused on what was happening right then - why the kite kept falling, how cool
it would be to unwind the string all the way and watch it go up, the smile on
my child's face when he got the kite up all by himself, how the other child thought
it was fun to hook the string on his belt loop and watch it go, how one let go
of the string and I got to catch it.
Most of my days are not spent in the moment. Seems I am always thinking about future
things - schedules, my workload, advertising, what I will cook for dinner. Photography
forces me to be present. Some use it
as an excuse to be a little too removed sometimes, so be careful. It can get in the way of interacting with
your family or friends. But it can also
make you truly enjoy the beauty in this world if just for a moment or maybe to
see some ugliness that you hadn't thought about much that you should perhaps
think about more often.
I have always thought of photography as an escape but upon
further reflection, I find it's not an escape at all because it takes me away
from the stuff I spend way too much time thinking about anyway and forces me to think about and appreciate
what is going on right now. Is it
the same for you? Send me e-mail and
tell me about it. I'd love to hear your
stories.
Have a wonderful May!
Be back next month with some ideas about photographing while you're on
vacation this summer.
Dawn
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