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I've recently made a big decision. I've decided to take a rest from wedding photography for now. I've had a little business on the side (completely separate from my full-time day job) doing wedding photography for about 6 years. It's never been massive, I started because I LOVED doing it, and it was a creative outlet for me at the time. (Don't worry, I'm trained).

However these days I have this space for a creative outlet, and it's much less stressfull and less exhausting. Whenever I do a wedding shoot now it seems to be a lot of work; I guess it always was, but I used to love it so much I never noticed. I never wanted to feel like it was a job, it was always suppose to be a passion. So I think it's time to "shelve it" for a while.

I still have to shut down my photography site to make it official, or at least re-do it to be more of a gallery and less of a portfolio. That will be the last step I suppose... gulp.

Since I made this decision I've been riding a little wave of emotion. Guilt, feeling like I've just given up, a little bit of shame that I'm not pushing it further... but now that's subsiding and I'm starting to feel a sense of freedom, space to do something new, excitement!

I need to remind myself that I don't need to do everything all at once, change is good, and now it's time to make way for a new phase to begin.
Change is good, change is good, change is good.
Do it now, do it now, do it now.