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Taking a Leap for Change

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Its been awhile since I last posted.  But I wanted to touchable a bit.  There have been a lot of things that happen since the last post.  Here’s a few things.  I went to New York City for a whirlwind weekend adventure of photography and hanging out with a buddy.

The trip to New York was filled with so much excitement, insight, and just pure brotherly love.  This trip also showed me that heroes are as you can hope they are.  My photographic heroes didn’t disappoint me at all.  They are all the same as I expected and more.  They are all great people.  And that’s the just the thing I realized is that they are just people.  So given that it was amazing to know that they are the same in person as their personas on the web.

The highlight of the photographic adventure of this trip, was finally meeting my friend and fellow photographer Douglas Sonders in person.  I met Douglas several years ago via social media.  It was one of those, why would this photographer follow me kind of things.  I still don’t know why he followed me but it has been a great friendship over the internet.  But it was a pleasure to meet Douglas in person finally.  This was especially great since the class that he was teaching was the last class that he would possibly teach for awhile.  So I figure this would be the best opportunity to at least say hello.

Secondly on this trip, I got to hang out with my great buddy and friend, Rob.  Rob is one of the coolest people that I have had to pleasure to befriend.  Rob and I connected almost immediately and since we met at WLC in Chicago this past summer, it has blossomed into a great friendship.  This weekend in New York we got to hangout, learn about each other, catch up, and just have a wonderful adventure as friends.  It was cool to see he’s love for firefighting and just to see he’s excitement for life.  Rob in many ways is very mature for he’s age.  When I look back when i was he’s age, I didn’t know what I wanted in life.  I know that we don’t have everything in order at that age but I believe that Rob will be fine.  But also equally great is that he is open to the possibilities that life will bring him.  It was great to see this in him.  I truly do wish the best for him.

The trip to New York also gave me some time to reflect and see what I wanted in life.  The relaxation that I got from this trip is that I am happy where I am currently but I know I want to do better and improve myself.  So I decided on this trip that in order for me to do that.  I will need to do something that I have been learning a lot about lately.  And that thing is coaching.

Over the last several months I have been thinking about coaching.  I don’t want to be coach rather I would like to be coached.  This I believe will help me see the bigger picture but also find focus and clarity in what I want to have happen in life.

So on the writing of this posting I have decided to get coached.  I have signed up for 4 months of getting coached.  I don’t know what to expect.  The only thing I know is that I will be a better and more improved person that perviously.  I will have to do my best and make it work.

So that’s all for now.  Until next time.

Wonderment

Hello Again

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Hello again!  It sure has been quite awhile since I have updated or even touched this blog.  There surely has been a whole of things that I have happen since the last time I even logged in and even attempted to post here.

For those that are interested here is just a few things that I have happened:

  •  I officially have a “second office” for my photography and other creative pursuits.
  • I launched another photography business.  This photography business is focused on Landscape and Travel photography.
  • I went on a 3 week adventure visiting Portland and Chicago.
  • I have become President of The Professional Photographers of San Diego County.
  • I have come into my realm as a photographer.  I’m no longer the scared and nervous photographer that I use to be.  I am now more confident and prepared photographer.
  • I have a bit more responsibility at the engineering job.
  • I recently got myself a standing desk.
  • I have seriously considered about standing a podcast soon.
  • I have been put in charge of an Instagram account about food.  I curate the page for amazing food photographs.
  • I am in the middle of a 1000 day photography project.  And as of this writing I am less than 1 year from completing the task.

That in a nut shell is what I have been up to and all that is new in my life since the last time I posted here.  I’m really going to try to post here more often.  I know I have made promises and statements like this before but I am really going to try to make more of an effort to do so.

So here’s to where this journey is going to take me.  🙂

WDS 2014

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This year I make my return to Portland, Oregon to attend the World Domination Summit. And this being my third year I intend to do more an enjoy than I ever have. With that in mind. I have a few things that I would like to go after. Here are some of my goals:

1. Face my fear. The fear of heights.
2. Meet and reconnect with old and new friends.
3. Foster and nurture the relationships that I have already built from previous years of the summit.
4. Share my knowledge of photography with other WDS photographers.
5. Have the most fun I can.
6. Dance more.
7. Drink good Portland coffee.

Oliver the Blogger…Oops I think I did it Again…

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Howdy! Well it’s been awhile since I last posted. I hit one of those procrastination walls once again. It was one of those walls that I’m pretty sure that everyone is accustom to every once in awhile or in my case every few months, 6 months to be exact. How do I know this happen? Well I have well documented myself on what I do when I run into this procrastination wall. Here’s usually a sequence of events.

1. Usually there is an impending deadline.
2. The deadline date is far out in advance.
3. Another task pops out. Yes is said and life continues.
4. Then another….
5. And then throw in a vacation in there.

Then let the adventures begin.

The one reason that this happens to be often is that fall into the trick that I can accomplish it all. I think that with proper time management and strong will I can accomplish it. Well then comes the “thinking part.” And then I start to think a lot of what I can do to make the process that I’m doing much more efficient. And when that happen I experiment. And experiment. And experiment more. And before I know it. I have gone through multiple experiments and I think to myself that I haven’t accomplish much. Although as I sit here I should realized that I have accomplish something. And that one accomplishment is that i figured out multiple ways of not to do one task and eventually I end up with a optimal solution.

So with the thought that I haven’t done anything…I start thinking that I have a monumental task now. And that kind of thinking is really effective to making me believe that I can do more and that the task is impossible to accomplish. And then starts the vicious circle of procrastination. And then hence we arrived the the situation that I currently find myself in.

So let’s start this all again and see what the coming days and weeks take me on this blogging and sharing journey. Well that’s an update to the blog at least. I will do my best to post more and post more often like I did previously.

Thanks for reading. 🙂

Oliver the…. And changing things up

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Over the last few weeks I’ve been going through a whole process of trying to figure things out; both on the personal and business side. It one of those times where you start thinking and reflecting on what you are doing and where you can go. The key being is making sure thy whatever I do I end up happy.

So I guess we will start on the personal side. There’s has been a lot of things going on. A lot of things that has me thinking and reflecting on doing things. I have made and fostered more friends, reconnecting with some, working out some issues with others, and making plans with others. But ultimately I have realized that I need to make myself happy and make things happen no matter what. I have also been more willing to share a bit more in person. The conversations that I have had with friends recently have been good that have challenged and questioned me to do better and seek what it is that I want.

And that is where the question rest; what do I want. At the moment I don’t know. I just don’t know. I can’t at the moment decide on just one thing. But here a few things that I would like;

1. Do a little more traveling.
2. Display more of my photography work.
3. Open and share a photography place with friends.
4. Spend more time with family traveling and seeing the sites.
5. Improve and continue a good overall health outlook.
6. Advance further in my engineering career.

So as you can see, there is a lot of things on the plate of wants. I am starting on whatever allows itself to be work on. And I do recognize that every little victory that I accomplish everyday helps me get closer to my aspirations and goals. And that currently concludes the personal side of things.

The other thing that I have been working on has been on my business. Over the last several weeks, I have been reorganizing, rethinking, and redoing my business from scratch. This all began a couple of months ago when my friend Jared, invited to attend he in studio audience on CreativeLive. He’s class was about the business of photography. A lot of the topics we discussed and learned there hit home for me. It was one of those lightbulb moments of life. During the three days of class I realized the following;

1. I must design a business to make me happy.
2. I must make the business centered around me.
3. I have to understand every aspect of my business.
4. It’s going to be a lot of work and success won’t come easy.
5. Share your work and business with others
6. Be unique ( think of three words )
7. Your Art and your Business are two different things.

So over the last weeks I have been working on refining my photography business into a business that I’m proud to work on and share with the work.

With the help of my fellow friends that were in the audience with me, we are part of a group called the Bauman Six. Together we help each other through our processes and journey through the forest that is photography. Over the weeks I have discovered, toiled, and figured out my three words. I started with the words of; passionate, loyal, and explorer, and those have evolved into; tailored, outdoorsy, and geek. I have learned from and still learning from this experience. A few things I have learned is that you have to allow yourself to be seen. Allow yourself the time to figure it out. This is something that doesn’t occur overnight but it is a process that takes some time. And most importantly you have to be Yourself. Your true Authentic Self. With that in hand, I have found that you will and continue to discover yourself.

Other than a journey of self discovery, I have also been working on learning the process. The process being everything! And I mean everything. From the easiest to the most complicated task. Everything that I do, to run the photography business. This experience has been. Great and eye opening. It has been one of those things that you didn’t realized you do but once it out on paper you realized that you do a lot of work to run the business. And when you do this you realized that you are WORTH IT. And in doing this, I finally realized that all my work and art is WORTH the cost that I charge. I realized that my cost are justified and it is what I feel comfortable with. So now my outlook with my business is bright and shiny!!! And I’m looking forward to where it will go.

In the next couple of weeks I hope to have my new photography websites up and running. My goal with the websites is to have them represent me and my vision of the world. I will focus both on landscape and wedding photography. Both will be completely different from on another but still have the words; tailored, outdoorsy, and geek, as the main themes in them. They may not be visually apparent however they will be interwoven.

That’s been the latest with me in the personal and business end.