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How a girl with ants-in-her-pants is crushing it with her camera.
Do people care if their photographer bares her soul? Do they give a damn where she travels and what she thinks about life, death and The Office TV show? Apparently, they do give a damn.
Granted: Sara and Alex Boulter are just about the most loveable couple imaginable. They’re spunky, fun-loving young people always accompanied by a stunningly-cute little boy. His name is “Oliver” of course.
But one glance at Sara’s blog at http://www.saraboulterphotography.blogspot.com reveals that the Boulters are far more than attractive folks. They’re beautiful souls and they’re brave enough to let-it-all-hang-out. Perhaps they’re beautiful souls BECAUSE they’re brave enough to let-it-all-hang-out.
Sara’s sure of it. Some years back, she got the photo bug and she began teaching herself the fine art of photography and the grueling discipline of Photoshop. Clearly, she’s a master of her art – but so are two hundred bright, shiny young ladies in her hometown. What makes Sara so different, and so successful?
“The photos aren’t my product.” Sara says, flat out. “I’m my product and I produce by being true to who I am even if it’s uncomfortable. People care about the person who takes their family pictures. Through my blog, they know the real me and they want me to be the one to capture their family on film. I never say ‘cheese.’ That just wouldn’t be me.”
All that may sound like so much dreaming, until you start reading her blog and looking at her photos. Yep. Sara’s certainly being true to who she is and it’s put her before a tribe of men a women who care about life and care about Sara. Oh, and they like having her take their picture, too.
Sara can’t be a whole lot more than five feet tall and she has the energy of pile of caffeine-guzzling canaries. She keeps her blogsites humming with deep thought, gorgeous pictures of gorgeous people and the occasional, fanciful contest. She talks about and takes pictures of her life and the people in it. And she does it without varnish or pretension. Check out her “The Because Tour” blog (http://thebecausetour.blogspot.com/) and you’ll see what I mean. Sara, Alex and Olly bought an RV on Craigslist last summer and they bailed. They left to see the United States – all 50 of them. Along they way, they took pictures and blogged their guts out and they took us with them. They taught us how to live the rich life without concern for how much cash we have in the bank. For their friends and family back home, it inspired us to live deep.
Alex owns a small credit counseling business and Sara takes pictures. The internet keeps them connected and keeps their financial life humming. Sara’s taken portraits as they’ve traveled and she has a bumper crop of customers waiting as she comes back home, recently returning from a month in Hawaii.
Alex and Sara aren’t millionaires. In fact, money doesn’t seem to mean all that much to them. They do what they love, they make plenty of money and they take time to leave footprints in the pumpkin patches and on the sandy beaches of our little planet. I’d like to think that kind of life is available to every authentic and soulful micro-business person.
Sara smiles. And when she does, being a micro-business fanatic feels like a good thing to be in this world.{jcomments on}
