The first snow of 2010

This is the snow that we got today.  Barely a dusting and the entire Middle Tennessee region has shut down.

There’s my sexy Mazda3 covered with a fine layer of snow.

This overreaction to snow isn’t unusual to me.  When I lived in East Tennessee, every time there would be a threat of snow, the county in which I lived would close schools… without fail.   Granted, my county did include a large population of students living in the Appalachian mountains, which generally got all of the snow instead of the valley, which is where I lived.

Brett got out on the roads, and had zero problems driving with ice or snow, so I’m not sure why state troopers have responded to about a hundred wrecks in the Middle Tennessee area today.  And the kicker is that the county and city schools here are closed tomorrow as well.  Brett gets another day off work.  Unbelievable!

I’m doing alright with the 365 days of photos, though I sheepishly admit that I forgot to take a picture yesterday. Also, the picture from January 5th is not too smokin’ hot.  You would think, since I want to become a professional photographer, that I would find it easy to take pictures every day.  Alas, I am frequently lazy when it comes to documenting my personal life.

Even though I missed a day already, I’m not considering this resolution/project to be a bust.  I’m going to push forward and hopefully learn some stuff from it.  Or permanently stay in a photographic rut and never get my business off the ground.

I think this project could become intimidating and frustrating to me because I hate a majority of photos I take (self-esteem issue, much?), and I feel pressured to be hip, cool, and think of outrageous things to take photos of everyday.  I’m trying not to get overwhelmed and just do simple things that make me happy, but we’ll see how it develops.

Here are some other photos I took:

Hallie pre-surgery.  She’s currently spending the night at the vet recovering from being spayed.

Orion yawning.

More Buddha (noticing a decorating theme?).

And still editing pictures that I took over winter break.

By the way, school starts next Thursday.  I’m only taking two classes this semester, so I’m hoping that this will be the spring that my photography takes wings.  I have a lot of learning to do.  I wish I had positive feedback on my photos than from about five people, but hey.  I gotta get out there and shoot more if I want strangers to like my work.

I’m so afraid I don’t have the skills to make this dream a reality.  It seems like there are a dime a dozen photographers, but honestly?  I’m not looking to make six figures even if it does sound really nice.  I want to live comfortably, which wouldn’t be  much for me (as long as I could afford to buy camera equipment).