Reality matching Imagination

Last week was a very busy week for me. I ended up doing two photo shoots, attended a conference for photographers in NYC, met some interesting (and famous) people there, and worked on another mitzvah. I feel safe in mentioning the conference, as I was one amongst 600 people there. (If that helps narrow down who I am for some of you.)

Even more promising is the fact that I have the entire upcoming weekend lined up with items to do and I am starting to feel like a photographer. I'll be trying my hand at a martial arts competition and perhaps shooting several models for a fashion designer. If I could only express in words how excited I am.

Last night, I could hardly sleep with the thoughts going through my mind of how I'd pose these models, what interesting things the fashion designer will be presenting and the understanding that I will be doing something that entirely has me grinning like a lunatic.

Before this, my employment as a photographer has only been to capture other people's celebrations. Now, I have an opportunity to participate in a more exciting and fast paced world. I only hope that all this excitement doesn't get burst by a reality that doesn't fit my imagination. I want to be like that young kid that walks away in wonder saying that this is exactly the way I imagined it.

Amazing how catastrophe has turned into opportunity, isn't it?