2010 PLAN

Well, welcome to the new year and I hope that your wishes come true.

I have decided to move out of San Francisco in the late spring and start a new life in Lake Tahoe. There are several reasons for this and not very many draw backs as this is strictly a life style improvement as Abbey and I are outdoor people. There are going to be several steps to taking this move on. Foremost, I want to say that our plan does not include leaving the Bay Area entirely and never returning. We love San Francisco and will be coming back often because I hope to continue to work here as well as other places nationally and internationally.

The rough plan for my business is to continue to arrange gigs in the Bay while continuing to promote my photography and videography. This is the primary point to which I am writing this blog. I want to document and show the steps too how I make a transition from being based here in the Bay Area to pushing into other markets and creating more opportunities for myself at home and abroad.

As anyone who is ever lived in San Francisco will tell you, the cost of living is high, very high. I struggle as a freelancer to make it now-and-then and I feel that it is not necessary for me to be in the city at all times since a large portion of my work is done either in the field or behind the computer at home (a lot). I really don't need to be at a specific location and this is the point to which we want to change the location to be closer to the mountains and the sports which we are so involved in already.

For more than a year now, I have been on a spiritual journey that has helped me start to live the life that I have always dreamed of. The dreams of material possessions have given way to feelings of content and experience based dreams with loved ones. My life has really changed and my drive has shifted to creating imagery that reflects not only the human spirit but the natural setting that it exists in. This landscape, both in the city and in the mountains, holds us and helps us to return to the most basic principles of awareness and connectedness with the universe at large as long as we take time to see it. I feel most at peace in the mountains sitting and talking or climbing with friends, taking pictures and bringing those experiences back from my mecca, a place of peace and serenity in the calm tide of mother earth, as a refugee with tales of a far off lands back in the city, sharing images and stories with those that have a willingness to listen and experience some of it themselves. That is my purpose.

There is a certain amount of fear involved in leaving a place where you are comfortable. I have fear about not being able to make it and those will be there, growing smaller as time goes on. These fears will not hold me back from experiencing life's great adventure. Life gives back what you give to it I have found that to be the truth. With that adage, I know that if I continue to evolve in my skill and passion that I will be able to live free and in beauty.

Here's to all our successes!!!!!

I have been developing a plan so stay tuned to see how in unfolds.