I have a friend that specializes in wedding photography.  She is a big camera nut and has been doing weddings for many years.  I have seen some of her work, and it is really quite amazing.

One of her biggest challenges as a business woman is that there are more wedding photographers in town now than there were just a couple of years ago.  It has meant that she has a lot more competition now than before, and it has been hard for her to keep up.

But, she has found another untapped market to offer her services to: weddings abroad.  She now offers to go anywhere in the world and do the wedding photographs at a very reasonable rate.

She has had a couple of clients already, and is going to Mexico next week for one of them.  It has been good to watch her adapt to changing market conditions and still be able to do what she loves: photograph weddings.

For most of my life, I have just loved art - especially paintings.  I love how these images capture a scene at a moment in time.  Quite often I find myself lost in the paintings, with my mind endlessly daydreaming.

Since I never really had any sort of painting skills (or artistic talent), I ended up becoming a photographer instead.  Just because I couldn’t paint or draw, didn’t mean that I couldn’t find a way to express the artist in me.  It took a little practice, but I have become somewhat of a professional photographer.

In order to have the artwork created by myself, I have found a place that will put photos onto canvas.  The resulting canvases look like professional paintings that you can put on your wall.  I have about ten of them now on the walls in my home, and each time that look at them, I am reminded of being at the art gallery - one of my most favorite places to visit.