Where did the children sports idea come from Evo?
Well, even though I really enjoy wedding photography, and I can do it well, there's a lot to running a wedding photography business that isn't entirely to my taste. The business is very fashion conscious, very style conscious, very image conscious, very design conscious.
Landing clients in wedding photography is generally a complex dance of subtle social interactions, involving both high level social skills and a willingness to compromise yourself.
The business involves so much diddling with websites, with complex contracts, with the color coordination, with the right fonts, with album design, with the layout and the furniture of the studio, and so on – it just isn't for me.
I've been looking for a business model with an endless stream of clients that are easy to get, where I don't have to wear a suit and a fancy watch and drive the right car and associate with the right people, a business where most of the negotiations are done after-the-fact instead of before, and where those negotiations are simple, with nothing significant at stake.
And then my ex's daughter started Peewee softball, and I thought I saw an opportunity to make the money of people photography, while shedding the lifestyle of a wedding photographer.
But this is still just in the early stages of exploration.
