A Missed Annivesary

When I was married, I was a habitual forgetter: I'd forget wedding anniversaries, birthdays, and most other dates that, it seems to me, are usually far more important to women than to men. (Leastwise, this man.) My habitual case of forgetter syndrome might, to some extent, explain why I'm no longer married. At the very least, it probably contributed to the relationship's demise.

"Obviously, the things that are important to me aren't that important to you," my ex-wife would often say. Actually, when she felt compelled to voice those sentiments, she didn't say it quite that nicely. She also made that observation to explain many things about me that sorely and continually annoyed her.

All that aside, I've just realized I forgot about the first anniversary of this blog. (Missed it by two weeks.) Not that it's an important or memorable date to remember (like certain anniversaries and such) but, for anyone who keeps track of these things, the first anniversary of my Pretty Girl Shooter blog came and went on July 4th.

Wow! It's been over a year since I started writing this blog! I'm rather self-impressed that I've exhibited such, uhhh... perseverance.

Feeling a bit nostalgic, I took a look at my first PGS blog entry. I suppose I thought a small reminder of why I began writing this thing wouldn't hurt. For those of you who are partial to trivial and unimportant stats, I've posted 248 updates (not counting this one) since I began authoring this blog.

In my initial entry, I attempted to communicate my reasons for embarking on this blog-writing journey: Having too much excess time on my hands was my #1 listed reason for doing this. What that really meant was this: Since, as many people do, I had some extra time on my hands, and since I'm not much of a TV-addicted, couch potato, plus I was already and routinely spending a fair amount of my excess time commenting on various photography forums, it seemed to make more sense to write what I had to say about photography on something more personal, more mine, than a public or membership forum.

In the back of my head, I've kept at this blog thinking I could do something with my writing. I've thought the start of a book on glamour photography, the basis for some articles for photo magazines, or something else could lie hidden within the confines of this blog. To date, none of that has happened. I haven't tried to assemble my many blog entries into something cohesive that might provide the beginnings of a book. I've yet to submit anything, not even a query letter, to magazines. But I'm still hopeful something will evolve out of this. That's why I'll keep updating about the craft of pretty girl shooting and keep thinking that something--other than the personal satisfaction and enjoyment I derive from writing about this stuff--will eventually reveal itself.

BTW, it wasn't until my sixth blog entry, Studio Glamour Lighting 101, that I posted an image. FWIW, the pic below is the first image I posted to the Pretty Girl Shooter blog. It's a behind-the-scenes, instructionally-intended, shot of model Nikita Lea. Nikki has been featured in more than a few pretty girl magazines and websites.