Going Into Business

I have totally lost my mind. I have been considering for many years starting my own Photography business. There was always something to hold me back.

*I didn't have a good enough camera - I do now.

*I didn't have great portraiture lenses - I do now.

*I didn't have room for a studio - I'm going to soon (I'm converting my sun room...talk about amazing natural light).

*I didn't have great editing software - now I do and I am getting better all the time at using it.

*I didn't have a clear vision - I have decided that for now I just want to shoot newborns.

*I didn't feel like I had a special edge to bring to the table - I finally recognized that my photography talents might not be cutting edge but they are really good, but what I do have is an unusual ability to connect with kids. That talent is huge I have come to realize.

*I just plain didn't have the confidence - I almost there...

So I am on my way. We are converting our sun room into a guest bedroom / photo studio. It is going to be awesome. Pier one has some really amazing chairs right now. I am dying for one, but can't make up my mind. A few beautiful throw pillows for the futon, a nice table and some wall art and I will be in business.

Of course I still have to buy lighting, and design a Blog and Website!

I have been collecting props for a few months now. I have some great stuff. I am so excited.

I have already begun developing ideas for packaging and my business model but what I really need to start things off is a NAME for my business and a LOGO. I would love to incorporate a beautiful modern silhouette of a stork with my logo. But I am totally stumped on my name. I want to incorporate my name (for familiarity and recognition). But then I want something clever and cool that fits with my plan for newborn photography. Maybe:

Jennifer's Miracles - super cheesy

Tiny Toes Photography - missing my name

Sweet Pea Photography -cute graphic potential

Special Deliveries Photography - kind of a mouth full

Tiny Treasures Photography - ????

I have a favorite Baby poem - My Grandmother loved it and shared it with me when I had my first baby. But I can't find a way to use it. Do you know this poem:

Babies Don't Keep

Mother, of Mother

come shake out your cloth,

empty the dustpan,

poison the moth,

hang out the ashing,

and butter the bread,

sew on a button and make up a bed.

Where is the Mother whose house is so shocking?

She's up in the nursery blissfully rocking.

Oh I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue

(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo)

Dishes are waiting and bills are past due

(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek-a-boo).

The shopping's not done

and there's nothing for stew

and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo,

but I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.

Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?

(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo)

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,

for children grow up,

as I've learned to my sorrow.

So quiet down, cobwebs.

Dust go to sleep.

I'm rocking my baby

and babies don't keep.

-Author Unknown

I like the message that poem sends because the whole idea of Newborn photography is to capture those precious moments that are oh so fleeting.

So any ideas....

Please, please share!!!!