I think in life the chaos, stress and the noise blinds us to what’s going on around us and sidetracks us of our purpose of serving and helping one another. I have always tried my best to help others in any way I can, but I too am guilty of getting caught up in the day to day things that I kind of get stuck focusing on me. To be honest I have been in a huge funk and have played the pity card all too often lately, causing me to think negatively about many aspects of life. Why can’t my photography be as good as their photography? Why are they so successful but I am struggling so hard? Why are they so popular, but no one calls me just to see if I still exist? Why this and why that? Eventually when focusing on ourselves and all the negative instead of focusing on the positive, our time runs out just like in the music video. As soon as he was saved, he began to notice others around him and began to have an urgency to help as he has been helped.

So what’s my point with all this rambling? My point is I want to get back to serving and giving my time to others and helping build others up, so that I in turn can be built up. Pretty selfish huh? I was helped a lot by some of my great friends when I started doing photography and it’s time for me to give back. So I am announcing a contest. Every month I want to donate 2 hours of my time for one on one mentoring with photographers in need. As of right now I will keep this a Utah contest so that I can better serve the winners by one on one, face to face mentoring.

So here’s the deal. Are you in need of help with any aspect of your photography business? Maybe you need ideas on how to build up better word of mouth marketing? Maybe you are really struggling with your RAW or JPG workflow and are spending hours upon hours editing? Maybe you are just starting out and want to learn how to shoot more consistently with your camera using manual? Let me know your story and on the first day of each month, I will post a poll on my blog for a chance for your family and friends to vote. The voting will last 1 week and then the person with the most votes will be that month’s winner.

So if you are interested, please send me your story all this month and I will post the contestants on 5/1 and the voting will begin. The mentoring session will be scheduled upon availability, has no cash value, and must be during a weekday. Thanks so much for listening, I hope to hear from you guys soon.

I had two awesome students at this workshop and we had a blast together all day. Thanks so much to Stephanie of Inspired Design Photography for flying out all the way from Georgia to take the workshop and thanks to our very own hometown photog Andrea Hanks for attending as well. You guys are awesome and I hope you guys kick trash and have great success in all you do.

For more info on upcoming workshops, be sure to check out my workshop site and if enough people are interested, I do travel out of state to teach as well.

Also, I have shot three of the most fabulous weddings the past week, so you won’t want to miss them.