What you gonna do when you don’t have any wedding photography packages that sold within years?
Will you give up? or you willing to change your business period?
Please, there is no bad decision my friend either you giving up or change your business. For me, the worse decision that you could made is when you don’t choose anything to do.
By the way my only dream is to be an international wedding photographer, trust me that I already tried so many niche in photography, I work for commercial, fashion, modelling, till food photography but there is no one that make feel so deep except wedding photography.
If I could tell you something which really important back in 2008, my friend was give me an old Master Wedding Photographer DVD and this movie change my whole mindset for sure. During that time I see this business in different perspective, now imagine that if you see Joe Buissink, Yervant, or Jerry Ghionis shooting on wedding than they not just shooting but I feel that they dance on their camera and creating the most prestigious story to their couple.
I’m impressed! and I really love to be wedding photographer no matter what happen in the future. Till one day I met with Joe Buissink in Bali and become of his assistant for 10++ hours wedding photoshoot for Hong Kong couple who getting married in Alila Uluwatu, one of the most prestigious resort around Uluwatu highland. I don’t believe with accidental condition because I a hundred percent believe in the Secret flow so when I saw Joe in the DVD back in 2008 and in 2012 I become of his assistant than I know that this situation become a reality because I always dreaming about it.
It’s Hurt and It’s Painful!
I know that it’s hurt and it’s extremely painful and I believe that no one want to be in this situation.
But! If you truly love what you do and you think that this is the only way to get escape from your existing life than you will do whatever you can and you gonna kick your fears out from your mind and work so hard to be able to solve this challenge.
December 2012 was my first time to decide that I have to move into international market, no one believe that it can be happen but hell yeah I still believe that one day this dream become a reality. I just remember that my close photographer friend calling me in damn ass hole afternoon and he told me that “Bima, I dreaming that you gonna bankrupt!” what the hell that he doing by saying that words to me? Don’t he ever think that it gonna be hurt my heart?
I was get into my room and down on my knees and asking my wife to hold my hand because I feel so sad during that situation. No one believe that promoting wedding photography packages to international market is real even my friends also told me that I’m extremely insane about this decision.
In every single seminars and workshop that I attend than I always telling my participant that I dreaming to sell my collection into worldwide market and get everything done with internet marketing. During that time, so many friends and photographers selling their photography packages by putting some ridiculous expensive ads in the wedding magazine or joining a wedding expo, seriously if they do that than they gonna spend at least $5,000 for yearly advertising.
Keep Trusting Your Self Even No One Don’t!
If you ever saw the Dark Night Rises movie than you gonna see a scene where Bane put Bruce Wayne in under ground jail, he try so many times to climb up but always felt down till some prisoners told Bruce to let the rope down and trust his self.
It goes to you too, so even no body don’t trust what you gonna do than let them go and back to work and try again and again till you get succeed. No matter where you are now, no matter how bad is your situation is than as long as you put the hardest work on your day over and over again than one day your momentum is coming.
When you face a day which no one trust you than it means that you almost done the mission, don’t stop because if you do it than everything that you already done will gone.
It’s close so don’t stop!
2014 if the year of my milestone, one by one I receiving a deal from someone that willing to ask me to shoot for their wedding and all of them are foreigners. One guy is hiring me to shoot in Yogyakarta even I know that this big guys is coming from Texas, another lovely bride is coming from Singapore and she asking me to shoot her wedding in Bali.
So first time I shoot in my town, second one than I shoot in other city called Bali and have you ever think what the third gonna be?
This is what God gave me for my third projects….
Now lets imagine what gonna happen if I stop for what I do when my friend telling me that my business is willing to bankrupt?
So my friend, don’t stop for what you do no matter what situation that you dealing with right now. You must believe on your self and always work every day on your business and I definitely know that you gonna bored, you gonna hurt, and yes you gonna feel deep pain on your heart but keep doing for what you do and don’t stop!
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