Yesterday marks one year since I first registered my business in France.

Happy work anniversary to me!

One year in business—wow. And I almost let it go by without noticing. This has been a weird, hard, major learning curve kind of year. And I’m not done learning.

I was thinking yesterday about everything I’ve learned—the mistakes I’ve made, all the aspects of running a one-woman show that I’ve been figuring out, all the things I feel like I’ve done well at or let fall through the cracks.

But I kept coming back to one main thing: a lot of my first year as a professional, registered-in-France-and-in-it-for-real photographer was about doing new things and meeting new people. It was about expanding.

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