the long road

From March 27-30 I was in Turner's Falls, MA checking out the Hallmark Institute of Photography, known for its accelerated and highly intense 10 month professional photographer's certificate program. There I met some wonderful people including faculty, teachers, students, and various other folks in the community. This small, picaresque town, in my experience, revolves around this school with no one with a negative remark about it. For me, immediately impressed of the top-notch facilities and knowledgeable staff, it became not a question of whether this is a good school and well worth the money, but more of a question of whether this school is right for me, facilitates the work I want to pursue, and in the end makes me happy. Today, April 9th, I have decided that I will not be attending there in September and will continue upon the long road, in pursuing my dreams of growing as an picture maker, story teller, and documentarian of the world around me and my reaction to it, all the while sustaining a successful business to provide clients with effective imagery.