SCRAPS AND SCRIBBLES
Every time a friend asks for Washington State travel recommendations, I give a 15 minute speech on why they should go there. Sometimes said speeches are successful. I’ve had so much practice, people are starting to think the lodge pays me commission.
Hit the link below the photo to read 10 reasons I’m obsessed with Lake Crescent on the Olympic Peninsula, written for Explore Washington State.
Seattle friends: the Washington National Park Fund is hosting a special musical performance by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and the Musical Mountaineers at Benaroya Hall - to be played against a backdrop of scenic photos…including one or two of mine! Tickets are available at seattlesymphony.org, or the link below this photo.
Just about every young creative I know got started working first for friends and family. Their trajectories often started with an unpaid favor here and there for relatives needing prom pictures or headshots, then engagement photo sessions, and before they knew it, they were booking jobs by word of mouth.
Should you build your creative career starting from a friends-and-family platform? It can be useful in portfolio-building, but many fledgling creatives eventually run into snags like awkwardness about pay or lack of boundaries. That doesn’t mean, however, that it can’t be made to work.
This summer I shared perspectives on how to make the friends-and-family client model work for you as a professional springboard:
