Being Honest
In 2025 I spent over $600 on this stupid ass website.
In 2025 I made $0 off this stupid ass website.
I have tried to sit and write this for days now, and every time I have given up. I want to be positive about 2025 but really it just wasn’t when it comes to photography.
I get that it’s not about the money I make off of this stuff, but at the same time I have a combined 15 terabytes of storage at home that is already paid for the archive and protect my photos and videos; paying $50+ a month to do just that is pretty fucking dumb.
March will be 2 years that I have been off of social media, and all the time I get the same trash comment that business would be better if you had a Facebook page, it proves that my website is not being utilized haha, the analytics for the entire year was 70% me viewing and looking back at my own stuff.
The only sessions I had last year came from reddit posts where I would share photos in my cities subreddit. That’s it..
It’s been just such a disappointing year. I felt taken advantage of more times than I should and it made me want to just quit all together. I have never wanted to walk out of a wedding before and I knew if I did so that any type of business I was trying to create would just crumble.
I have tried giving away sessions, I have tried doing insane discounts, created brochures too and out. I have tried everything I want to try and it has resulted in absolutely nothing.
How bad is your photography for you to not be able to just give sessions away for free?
This has just become a useless subscription because it is just mentally draining more than anything. It’s supposed to be fun and positive and if I could do this without paying for it, it would definitely be different. It’s just not worth it to me anymore.
2024 starting out was one thing, 2025 being established and doing everything I did to try and push this thing just ruined it.
I really wish this could have been different. It fucking sucks that it couldn’t.
