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It’s Time to Get a Little Personal | San Diego Photographer

I’ve been making lots of changes in my personal and professional lives lately. One of the decisions I recently made was to get more personal here, to help everyone get to know me. Yes, I’ve posted personal things here and there, but I’m talking about a deeper glimpse into who I am, what makes me tick, and the other things I am “into”. This is my first post to kick off this new direction. You can still expect to see the sneak peeks and helpful info I’ve always shared, but now you’ll see a little more behind the lens.

As my first personal post, it is also a bit profession-related. (Hmmm, is that a phrase?) As many of you know, I strongly believe in giving back to my community. I’ve been involved with many volunteer groups over the past few years. Everything from lab rescue (in honor of my furry love) to suicide prevention to cancer research to supporting our military community. I strongly believe in ALL of these causes and missions, as I have been touched by each one. But I found myself stretched very thin on time and resources. I had to sit down and evaluate my time commitments and personal investment in each effort, as well as how much I was affecting myself and the community with my participation. In the end, I had to come down to one volunteer effort to support, and that is my work with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (afsp.org). So, how does this affect me professionally? Well, I have resigned from my work with Operation Love Reunited. I joined the organization years ago, and I still passionately believe in their mission to support military members facing a deployment. I know that OpLove will carry on the fabulous work they are doing as long as there is a need in our military community. I will miss giving back to our military families. I know how they feel when facing or enduring a deployment. It’s rough. There are so many times when you just want to hold your deployed family member, or have them hold you. A photograph can help during these times. I cannot thank the photographer who took our pre-deployment portraits enough for the support she gave us in those images.

The work I did with OpLove was some of the most rewarding I have ever experienced. It’s a big responsibility, as well. So much emotion, love, and unfortunately, sadness. Saying, “See ya later.” It stinks. But welcoming our service men and women home is amazing. The work was such an emotional rollercoaster, but I don’t regret a moment of it. I thank all of my OpLove clients for welcoming me into their lives at such a difficult time. Thank you. And a huge thank you to the administrators of OpLove as well. You put in thousands of hours each year to make this organization what it is today. The way that the lives of our military families have been impacted is immeasurable. You rock!

I am sure that some of you are probably wondering if I will still provide similar services. I will, and I will post information on that to the website as soon as I can. I just didn’t feel like this was the time.  You can still find participating photographers at www.oplove.org. And a final note, please check out www.AFSP.org and support the critical work being done there. I’ll share more about them in a blog post very soon. I believe the work they do with our military community is crucial.

Lots of love,
Angela

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