TL;DR — I'm co-hosting a virtual workshop starting February 1st (link on my profile and Stories), and there's a giveaway announcement at the end :) *** I discovered photography late in life, compared to many of you — I've been a designer since my teens, but never saw the camera as a creative tool I was capable of using. Photography felt like a special skill that only certain people were blessed with, and I wasn't one of them. When I was 30, I saw a folding Polaroid SX-70 for the first time, and I was smitten with the object itself. I bought the first one I could find. The images from those first packs of instant film changed the course of my life — but that's not how I became a photographer. By the time I started working professionally as a photographer, my design career had spanned nearly 20 years. The experience of running a small design & digital studio with my brother — working with clients all over the world on projects spanning product design, technology, brand, user experience, print, and more — had prepared me for the challenges of starting down a different creative path. Working and communicating as a creative professional laid the foundation for moving into photography — though it wasn't until I started creating photos for clients that I realized how much more important those skills often were than the images I was making. *** Starting February 1st, @kriskulakova and I will be covering these skills and more in our new 8-hour virtual workshop, "Moving Your Photography Practice Forward" — find all the details via the link on my profile, in my saved Story highlight, or visit https://bit.ly/2022-movingforward <3 What's more, the team at @viewsonic are giving away a FULL workshop + portfolio review registration to one lucky winner! To enter, visit https://bit.ly/2022-movingforward-giveaway or tap the link on my profile. Looking forward to seeing you on day 1! @viewsonic.uk @colorpro #photography #workshop #virtual #learning #photo #course #business #nikon #f100 #film #filmphotography