Future Goals

      I have been thinking of some long term goals I would like to accomplish when it comes to my photography. I know that I want to do wildlife and nature photography, but when I think about me working in the future it kind of freaks me out. It freaks me out because I know I would LOVE to work for national geographic or something along those lines, but my mind bugs out when I think of how to get to that point. You have to be extremely good to work for things like nat geo and I am confident in my photos, but it is scary to think of years down the line. I guess it is good that I start thinking now of how do I get to that point I want to be one day. I just do not know how or kind of where to start. Getting your work out there is good but that wouldn't get me a job just posting my photos on my social media. I think one of the first steps I need to take is getting a telephoto lens so I can experiment with that, since those lens' are used for wildlife. I have already started coming out of my comfort zone, like taking images of snakes. I am terrified of snakes, but because I want a career taking photos of animals it is good for me to branch out and do it.
      So I guess I have in a way started slowly going toward my goal. The photo seminar class is a good tool because we talk a lot about the different photo career paths and that soon we're going to email some photographers, which I have a couple in mind. It can just be hard to think of what I want for dinner sometimes let alone 5 years down the road. When it comes to photography though I know what I want, it is just scary to think of how to get there because there are so many different ways and not everyone does things the same way. I think I should just reach out maybe to different wildlife and nature photographers and do some more research on how to get where I want to be one day.