Happy New Year everyone!
Today marks one year since I began this website, and what a year it has been. From starting this site to lockdown to being featured in an article for my lockdown photos to life changes to everything in-between, it's been a wild ride.
One of my biggest goals leading into 2020 was to finish a website in time for a January 1st launch; thankfully, I was able to achieve this goal, and I am incredibly proud of how this website turned out. This year my goal is to create more, better content for this site, including uploading new photos to my galleries more often and writing more blog posts. If you have any suggestions about topics I should discuss on this blog, you can drop a comment down below or contact me through email or through Instagram — I am open to any and all suggestions.
Speaking of Instagram —if you have somehow stumbled upon this site and you aren’t following me on Instagram, you are missing out! I post photos to my Instagram page much sooner than I do to my gallery here, and they are presented in the order in which I took them. In addition, I upload my Instax prints exclusively to my Instagram, so, if you have seen those on my blog posts and you like them, that is where they can be more regularly viewed.
I mentioned in a blog post a while back that I was looking into applying for graduate school this past fall; due to a variety of circumstances, that did not happen. However, I am planning on working on an even better portfolio of work and applying to schools this coming fall instead. If you have any recommendations for photography/fine art MFA programs I should look into, don't hesitate to reach out and let me know! I would LOVE to go out West, but I am open to other suggestions (as long as they are not in the state of Alabama).
Lastly, as a point of interest, this is the first post that has been published on my new M1 MacBook Air (a HUGE thank-you to all my family members who contributed money to go toward this investment! Also — it’s rose gold, and it matches my iPad, which excites me more than it should). I have been using an 8-year-old Toshiba for all of my photo editing and writing, and it is exciting to finally have been able to upgrade to something that suits my needs a bit better (though I am grateful for the time I had with my old laptop — it served me well). I am excited to produce new content using this machine, and I feel that it will increase my productivity and my desire to create.
Here’s to one year of kelseycollierphotography.com, and here’s to a new year of possibilities.
Thank you all for sticking with me; talk to you soon!
Peace be with you,
Kelsey