My goals for 2010

Looking back at everything I have done this year, I realized it is time to set some goals for 2010.  My goal of “one of everything” for 2009 was nebulous which worked for where I was at the time.  Since I’m actually recording this I made an effort to come up with some very concrete, black-and-white goals. Also, I tried to set goals that were attainable, yet would still be a lot of hard work to get to them all. Finally, they represent a mix of continuing to try a little bit of everything while beginning to focus on improving and learning more in those areas I found I enjoyed.

My goals for 2010:

• Read five new photography books
  • Best Business Practices for Photographers, Second Edition
  • The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes
  • Perception and Imaging, Third Edition: Photography–A Way of Seeing
  • Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
  • VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography
  • Hopefully more than five
• Increase fine art & print gross sales by 500%
  • Quite reasonable for my business today.
• Get one new commercial customer
• Get on the field to shoot for a UConn Football game.
  • I’ll “settle” for some other D1 or professional sports, but watching the photogs on the field at a game in October 2008 was one of the triggers for my very successful 2009 mantra of “One of everything” and I simply feel I need to make that happen.
• Shoot second for a wedding
• Shoot with three new models
  • TFP/TFD fine
• Create one fusion style video of an event using my own images and still. Create using Adobe Premiere.
• Attend two conferences/workshops
  • Photoshop World
  • TBD
• Take a multi-day trip for the explicit purpose of taking photographs
  • Possibly Yellowstone or other national parks out west.
• One blog post per week between DPExperience.com or JeremyPollack.net
• Submit my quarterly taxes on time
• Don’t burn out! Remember to stop and smell the roses.