Hi Dave,

Thanks for asking. If I weren't in the heat of tax season, I'd be out marketing and getting my website up. But I have to earn my keep and pay for this year's travels. But I am to totally having fun with this. I forgot how exciting it is to start a business of my own.

I have a portrait shoot on Monday. A portrait I did a couple weeks ago was used for an ad, so I am now published. Got to go to a Wedding Photographer's convention two weeks ago and there were 10,000 photographers there. I went to 7 classes in 3 days, met with a couple of seasoned pros who told me that I should not go looking at shooting for other photographers - just do it on my own. And at the trade show par there were hundreds of vendors with any possible kind of merchandise either to use (Props, albums, software, CD's of educational things, and Camera Gear, lights, you name it!) or work into things to sell. I now have a full set of things to use to do commerical shooting in a studio. I am setting up a room in my office to be a full time studio.