Professional’s life is ain’t easy cause when you broke down or got nothing in your life than there are always bad attitude friends or a*sh*le competitor coming to your face. I live my life as an online based destination wedding photographer and the only reasons why I run this business over than 10 years is because I loveeee this job so much. If you just graduate from your university and thinking to be a professional or running a business that related to your major than think 1000x cause your life will run so hard and you gonna meet some ridiculous friends that always want you to be failed.
I’m Bima Adhitya and thank you for visiting my photography blog, here you will see all of my portfolio, tips, or my own journey while stepping my foot right in a crystal clear beach till joyful day with my family in such wonderful holiday destinations.
I’m not coming from rich family even my mom getting divorce when I was 4 and I ever saw my dad threatening my self by shooting his damn hand gun to the roof when I was 22
Generally I could say that I don’t have any kid’s happiness at all just like you or your kids but I swear with my blood and in the name of God that I will love my beautiful wife, Nina, and give all love to my kids way better than the others. When you are a guy who don’t have any good childhood’s life than I sure that you always dreaming to be a good father and husband with no matter ways that you can, I’m pretty sure that you will be the hardest worker in the room, like The Rock well said, and do the best thing to your family.
But the saddest things in this life is there are always bad attitude friends who knock your door and coming to your face than told you that you are in a wrong way and it’s impossible for you to achieve your goal. So remember this, if you got a typical friend like what I said than tell them this…
The picture above is my own portraits walking down at the cozy wooden deck of 5 star luxury resort in Maldives called Lux* South Ari Atoll. Few years ago there are so many photographer friends here in my hometown in Yogyakarta Indonesia told me that I’m insane cause want to stop my local wedding market and move to overseas markets. They think they were true cause I’m bankrupt for $15,000 and got no photography deal for over than 6 months, they always told me to do my previous traditional wedding job and forget about my dream for become a destination wedding photographer.
I just told my self that “This dream is IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM BUT NOT FOR ME!”
Lately in 2014 I got my first destination wedding in Bali from Singaporean couple called Jasmine and Kevan, in the next few months I got another deal from humble couple from Perth, than just within 2 months I got my dream photoshoot to capturing my first overseas pre wedding in Maldives and the couple that I serve there if coming from Hong Kong.
So let me explain clearly, my dream is not only become a wedding photographer but true destination wedding photographer, it such wonderful small niche that take me fly thousand of miles to such beautiful wedding resort and serve overseas couple who never meet me before. My previous couple, Billy, simply found me on this blog directly from his home sweet home in a downtown of Hong Kong than he sent me an email and asking for my photo collection….so simple but as long as I believe on my own dream even I never go to Maldives before than it will become a reality.
Bad Attitude Friends and A*sh*le Competitor Will Do This 3 Habits
Now I’m gonna share to you 5 habits that all bad attitude friends will used to do, all they want is taking you down and they don’t want you to be success. Remember they will laugh when you are down but trust me, God plus your freaking hard work is more than enough to achieve your goals.
1 – They Gonna Tell You That You’re Crazy
Every new thing in this world will looks un-normal so when you want to be the first one than everyone will tell you that you are crazy, do you ever think that all people told Orville and Wilbur Wright is crazy when those amazing brother gonna built they first plane? Hell Yeah!
So shut your ear and go walk away from someone who don’t believe with your dream, trust me your dream only need you to believe on it and with some freaking hard work than it become reality. When my photographer’s friend told me that I’m crazy than I just back home, shut my ear from them and start promoting my overseas services with using a wordpress blog. Trust me that nobody believe that this $80/year wordpress blog help me to dealing with overseas couple and pay for my first overseas photoshoot for $2500.
2 – They Will Tell You That Your Business Will Bankrupt Very Soon
Next bad attitude that your friend will tell you is, “Your business will bankrupt very soon” Can you imagine this statement, you are suffering and having hard work everyday but your friend tell you that your business will bankrupt soon? this what I have in my past years.
Your photographer’s friend just don’t want you to become success and they gonna influence you to stop your dream, that is the most tragic condition that you will have. My suggestion is still the same, shut your ear and back to your daily job, go work for your own portfolio, set up your price collection, than be the hardest worker in your business.
3 – Your Bad Attitude Friends Will Tell Other Friends That You are Suffering
Bad attitude friends will still the bad guy, once they failed to stop your dream than they will continually take you down by tell other friends that you are suffering and don’t have any more job. They want to make an issue that you are freaking down and almost have a bankruptcy, all they want to do is your failed!
The picture above is my photo with Jasmine, my wife, and Kevan after having a beach-front dinner in Bali, surprisingly this lovely couple invite us to get dinner after the photo shoot done. Generally they only hired me for 6 hours so we got few hours free before coming back to my hotel around Sunset Rd, Bali
Recommendations
As long as you love photography than there will be several ways that you can try to earn money, you can take a wedding photo job on the week end and shoot some stock photos on week days and sell it on Shutterstock. Your camera is so powerful but your brain is way better than that so always being a creative guy and don’t ever stop working for every single freaking day. Let your body getting tired, your eyes even cry so often but go do something.
If you got thousand dollars in your pocket than you can start to join an expo but if you prefer to use your money to survive and want to give the best and hardest effort for your business than I suggest you to start your own photography blog and promoting your services from home.
Remember this, your bad attitude friends will always be the same but when you achieving your goals than they disappear for sure. Have a joy hard working cause photography is awesome and there are so many ways to become rich by pushing your camera shutter.