Kyle Hepp

April 29, 2009

Email from a kind reader:

Hello Kyle,

Where have you been? I miss reading your new post @ your blog. can’t wait for updates.

Thank you to Shue in Kuala Lumpur for reminding me that I HAVE a blog!!! Normally JMCS at least makes my To-Do list even when I get busy. I’ll look at it and then cross it off even if I don’t get to it because staring at things on the list that don’t get done, stress me out. However, the blog didn’t even make it that far this month. I haven’t even considered that I should feel guilty for not posting because I’ve been so busy.

All things considered, that’s a great thing. Remember? I lost a lot of income in this past month. Fortunately, I’ve had an extremely busy month with photography. Every time I think that the slow season is about to start, I keep on booking. I am set to make a record 600,000 pesos in April. It sounds like a lot, and really, if I could get up to 1 millon de pesos a month I’d be almost completely replacing my lost income. However, the one thing about photography income is that you’re always having to invest in new equipment. I paid off the 3k camera that I put on my credit card with non-photography income so I have a zero balance. I don’t like debt. But, in terms of personal money versus photography money, my photography balance shows that I’ve still spent about $1k more than I’ve earned this year. If I ever want to go full-time I’d have to work out a good business plan.

Anyways, back to what I’ve been doing, I may not have been updating this blog, but I’ve been busy over at my wedding photography blog. For the past three days I’ve been averaging 3-4 hours of sleep a night so that I can finish client photos. I don’t want to fall even further behind because I have another session tomorrow and Friday. I’ve been working really hard and I’m proud of my latest engagement session and wedding that I just posted, so if you feel like it, head on over and leave me some love.

PS. The weatherman LIED!!! It was not 60 and sunny, it was freezing and the beach at La Serena looked like this! However, the plane did not crash and for that I’m eternally grateful.