Hello everyone.
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year for 2025.
I am still changing myself from a glass-half-empty kind of person to a glass-half-full kind of person. I am still building up confidence in myself to do what I can do, and chipping away my self-doubt. I am trying to get rid of the negativity, and trying to believe in the positivity.
Over the past few years, as my Photostream grow, I’ve watched the number of views every photos get, grows larger and larger. I’ve watched the number of Followers grow to more than 750 so far.
All of that is giving me a motivation to make an effort to do what I want to do.
I’m a deaf person. Here in the UK, back in the 1980s, there weren’t much human rights and disability rights, so when I told my family, hearing teachers at a deaf school, the social services, and the job advisors, that I want to get into college to study photography, and become a photographer…
They all were very negative, and not very supportive. It was a discrimination, pure and simple. It was like “No, you can’t be a photographer because you are deaf.”
“You can’t be a writer because you are deaf.”
“You can’t…” whatever is always followed by “…because you are deaf.”
All that negativity left me feeling self-doubt about myself, lack of confidence in myself. It actually took me about 10 years and maybe 5 different instructors, to finally pass my driving test.
During the 2000s to 2020s, I was a busy full time single parent, so my photography was put on hold for a while. I also had counselling seasons, to help me develop my self-confidence.
Now that my kids are older and left home, I decided to resume my career as a photographer. With more and more growing belief in myself, and chipping away my self-doubt, I’ve encouraged myself to make an effort to actually do photography.
I’m starting to believe that I can. I try to make an effort to roll up my sleeves, and get to do photography, in ways that I can. Not only because nowadays, with human rights and disability rights, but also because I start to believe in myself.
So with my growing confidence in myself, as part of my New Year’s Resolutions, I am studying how to start and run a business, for the purpose of going freelance. As soon as I’ve familiar myself with how to run a business, I aim to create a business plan, and aim to kick start my freelance business.
This is what the above photo is about, I got the books I needed, I’ve been reading some of them, studying them, and will start writing notes. For me, my resolutions for 2025 is to plan for going freelance.
In the meanwhile, I’m going to keep working on doing photography, expand my skills and my experience. I hope that if my Flickr account can grow, and motivate myself into doing more, then it will give me the motivation to do more.
Below the main subject in the above photo, is a few selected photos that acts like a preview of what I will be uploading in due course. Not only photos, but also a few graphic design work by using my own photos.
If any of you have similar experience, I wish you all many success in whatever your aims are, as you try to build up the belief in yourselves to be able to aim high and can do what you could do. Whatever your Resolutions for the New Year is, good luck and try your best.
Once again, wishing you all a Happy New Year.
