So, at some point after I took a workshop with Spencer Lum in July, I was supposed to write some diatribe about how it changed me, etc. etc. But the truth is, it’s hard to be changed. I think we tend to walk away from life experiences like that one inspired, challenged and pumped and as time goes by, you settle back into who you always were. Maybe you get to grow just a teeny, tiny bit. Maybe not. I came away from the workshop absolutely jazzed to do personal projects. Total number of personal projects even started since then: 0. It is what it is.
Back in July, I had the opportunity to take part in Spencer Lum’s “I Will Make You Suffer” photography workshop. I really had no idea what it was going in. Spencer is one of my favorite writers in the wedding industry, so when he announced the workshop, I signed up without reading any of the fine print. Turns out I had agreed to a four-day personal project intensive. And intense is exactly what it was: four brutal days of constant shooting, with two critiques each day. That means TWICE a day, you had to bring in new material to be torn apart.