Re: Scott Hargis Interview
I started shooting professionally 3 years ago, almost to the day, in fact. Previously I was a very low-end amateur photographer, doing nature shots, flower close-ups, bad landscapes, etc. I had never owned a digital camera.
I had been working in a corporate job for the same company for almost 15 years, and was slowly losing my soul (not to mention my mind). I started seeing a career counselor, and at the bottom of all those standardized tests the same thing kept coming up: Photography.
I became obsessed with the idea, and a few weeks later I wrote a letter of resignation and took the plunge. No clients, no experience, no equipment, no capital, nothing. It was a pretty dumb thing to do, really. It worked out, and I can’t adequately express how much I love what I do every day, but I went through some lean times there for a while. Life is much better when you have clients.
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