New changes

There's so much going on with life that I have not added much to my blog. I wish that I had started this business blog page in 2009. But, I have so many things I would have done differently in life if I had been more educated at the time. I am hoping to open this page for official business but everything was delayed. My good standing certificate was delayed by the state. My publishing affidavit was perfect and so there should be no hold up. I paid $110 for the certificate without it you can't open official business bank account. I feel life seem to be frozen when I just want to move ahead. I just changed the original quote below Grow Your Vision. It was “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” -Aaron Siskind

This use to be the perfect quote but I am outgrowing photography as it's not really a viable business unless people support your work. I think if I did this in 2016-2018 that things would be so different for my photography business. I feel I started this all years too late? I could have been really successful if I had a PRO Camera. In order to work in the city doing outdoor portraits they require specific lens which cost at minimum $3,000. I almost love the old vintage film and working in the dark room to buying expensive equipments. But, technology has changed and most cameras are mirrorless and I feel the cell phone has replaced the photographer. Maybe my perception is off? But, even National Geographic is no longer selling the magazine in stores soon. Only paid subscribers will receive the magazine. by mail. Everything has gone digital or online. The photography business is more geared to social media flexes than special events. Unless you get into corporate or sports photography or a niche that nobody has taken there is not real money in this business. Photography is a science and I feel it's an amazing passion but unless you have the connections and equipment it's almost impossible to make it without a studio and name.

The new quote I added was by Werndelin Van Draanen. I haven't watched the movie that quote was from. In fact I barely watched tv since 2009 and even before I wasn't a big tv watcher. I never had time to watch tv and go to the movies at all. I feel I have to catch up one day on all the movies from 2009 until now. I did watch many documentary and educational tv on social media here and there. I took my kids to a few popular movies over the years but I never really watched anything for myself. I just focused on my kids and college and nothing else for years. The dedication I had can't be matched I haven't met any other people that could do what I have done and not got paid ever. I haven't gave up on myself or my dreams. Things evolve and just like the new quote on my website I want to move on to new things. Here is to new beginnings and a better life and I hope my heard work pays off at some time and place soon. I would love to do real estate photography as a career over weddings and events. I am proud at my efforts and the work I have produced but unless I can travel and make money off the photography I just have to move on.

"Every once in a while you find someone who is iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare."

Old CV

Wendy Drews is a professional visual artist and writer, working at the intersection of math, science, photography, and art.

Always striving to create from the heart, her 13 piece installation series titled, “Pilots Belong In The Sky” is a piece that inspires connection, something we all need with much of the world facing mental health issues in the aftermath of Covid-19. She has a passion for aviation with dreams of gaining a PPL someday. This July she was planning a Live music performance of her poem, Pilots Belong In The Sky. Wendy belongs to the Arts Council Of Rockland ACOR and currently exhibiting work at Hidden Treasures Art Gallery.

Wendy’s artwork has been featured in multiple exhibitions, including the Davis Orton Art Gallery, Milford Arts Council, SouthEast Gallery, and the Art Gallery Exhibition Here, Now at the The Kresge and Pascal Galleries in NJ.

Wendy has published 32 prior books, and is currently writing a piece titled No Community. She is excited to host her own podcast, Just a Lady this Spring 2022. ©2022, Wendy Drews All Rights Reserved. ©2021-2022 Fly Dream Remember Sky