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…Crazily busy.

Maintaining a blog has confirmed my initial anxiety that “blogs” actually do require work, care, insight and humor that I can’t always muster when I’m zonked out in front of the computer screen.

Originally this entry was going to be about what to look for when looking for a wedding photographer. Helpful? Yes. It will be. Stay tuned, because that one will be coming, but for now an update because, like the headline says, The Girl Is Crazy.

April 2009 has brought so many EXCELLENT changes to a.e.Hotchkiss Photography and the entity behind it: one Audrey Emily Hotchkiss. Just like any kind of change it is wonderful, terrible, awe-inspiring and obnoxious all at once. Let me elaborate.

Change #1: MOVING THE STUDIO. Okay, this is a positive thing because Megan and I are developing a really clear vision for how we want to present ourselves, we are setting up a home away from our respective homes in order to take our work more seriously, and we are investing time and effort to make the space truly unique before First Friday (p.s. Come see us, First Friday May 1st between 5pm and 8pm, Room 302 State Theater Building, toast at 7pm). It is not positive for the following, childish reasons: I am going to miss distracting myself from my work by talking to Krista, Erin and Jane in our old studio, I have to move a boatload of crap from the 5th floor of the State Theater building to the 3rd floor, and painting (while calming) is more work than someone as busy as I am can handle.

Change #2: MOVING MY APARTMENT. A moot point. Apparently somewhere in the rule book it says I have to move at least once a year. Awesome because rent is going down but not awesome because, you guessed it, moving things is so exhausting.

Change #3: WEDDING SEASON. Score! Having lots of work to do is way better than trying to find lots of work to do. Wedding season kicks off in May with my first gig and I am so excited to get behind the camera and start makin’ some memories. This really has no downside except that I don’t eat, sleep or see people when I’m in post-production. Oh well, at least I’ll have a nice new studio!

So with these changes in play and the weather warming up things are looking pretty positive pretty soon. While I am pretty much running around like a chicken with its head cut off until First Friday is over I’m way more in to that than having nothing to do with myself but play video games and wait for the snow to melt!

A nice end to this autobiographical entry (less helpful, more entertaining!) might be an update on the work that I’ve been doing recently. In addition to taking some pictures of a hypnotic kite at bug light the other day (pic to come soon).

I have been doing work for Joel Platz, a furniture maker in town, who I bumped in to at the coffee shop one day. Images from the first shoot can be seen here. He hooked me up with his brother, Jeff, a guitarist from the Boston area who needed some photo work done last weekend for a gig with Daniel Carter, so pictures from that are soon to come, as well. Great group and wonderful experience shooting at Peapod Recordings in South Portland.

Zoinks!

Aud