Today’s Featured Post: A Letter from The Photo Garden Bee

in Bee Posts by Britt — December 4, 2009 at 12:00 am | 0 comments

The Photo Garden Bee bundles up or the Holidays

There were layoffs at USA Today the other day, and I was one of them. I have been working in the Life Deptartment on the Life Picture Desk gathering photos from around the country for TV, DVD, Movies, Art, our 10 Great feature, theater, games and the like for the past 5 years and working for the paper since 1994. Yesterday was my last day and I am now unexpectedly unemployed.

I have been doing the Bee here in my evenings each night after work and weekends, diligently working on what I love. I shoot gardens nearly every weekend and go through my photos during the week, writing each night and then sending a note over to my sister Erika who edits my dyslexic spelling. Well, now I have a lot more time to do it even better.

As I left work the other night, with my desk mostly boxed up, I headed home without knowing whether the future was going my way or not. I got home and there was a message from the Lewis Ginter publicist asking if I wanted to head up in a hot air balloon on Friday night to shoot the incredible holiday lights there. Well, this Bee is dearly afraid of heights, (oh, the irony). That said, as I my eyes seem to roll up in disbelief, my husband starred at me and said, “You gotta do it. You’re The Photo Garden Bee and Friday is the first day you’re out there flying on your own.” I looked at him and with fear covering my face and reluctantly replied, “I know,… Ahhhh” So, today at 5 pm, me, my camera and husband are heading up in the air so that this Bee can take its first flight literally. Photographing the Lewis Ginter light show is worth a two hour drive just to see it on the ground! I can’t even imagine how amazing it will be from the air.

Saturday, I am hoping to say I made it in that balloon and “here are the photos” of an amazing first day toward my and the Photo Garden Bee’s future. I hope you come back tomorrow to see the fantastic finale of this week at Lewis Ginter featuring the Garden Festival of Lights and the crazy push off of The Photo Garden Bee as, my now, full time endeavor. As I often say on Facebook, “Let’s do this thing!”

Wish me luck and feel free to come on out! It’s going to be great!

‘Til Tomorrow…

Britt : )

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