A full one third of 2012 has passed and that means that my destination wedding season is waning.  The year started out with a crazy world-tour of wedding photography.  In the month of January alone I flew from Portland to Mexico three times and shot weddings in Akumal, Puerto Vallarta, Playa Mujeres and then back again to Puerto Vallarta and Punta de Mita for two more.

The day that I got back from Tara and Will’s wedding in Punta de Mita, I had exactly two days to be out of the Broshot Garage.  My epic Alberta Street studio loft space of one-year.  The memories are fond and I do miss the two story glass roll-up bay door for my living room…sigh.

I’m in a better place now.  I’m reinvesting in my business in a sustainable way, in a way that I felt I was unable to do while at the Broshot Garage.  It’s not that the Broshot Garage was a bad place, a place like that will again be in my future.  I just felt like I was unable to take advantage of everything it had to offer me (location, space, wow-factor) because my business wasn’t optimized for that.  That’s what I’m retooling for now, setting myself up to make that next big push forward.

I think that it’s easy for people on the outside to look at me moving out of the Garage and see a step backwards being taken.  Right now I’m living with roommates in a north-Portland neighborhood called Kenton.  Moving out of the Garage was a step forward for me and here’s why I think that.

First, the Broshot Garage was a money-vacuum.  It sure made me look cool but it generated absolutely zero dollars in profit.  And that’s not to say that a place like that couldn’t be utilized in that way, I think it can.  In 1-2 years I will have a place like the Garage again and it will be optimized for my business, not just a super-hip bachelor pad.