Your name: Chelsey Boatwright

Workshop: week 1

Are you single, married, have children: I’m single & have no kids.

What state do you live in ? Florida

What do you spend way too much of your time doing?

Editing all my photos & working on my freelance graphic design jobs.

What do you wish you could spend more of your time doing?  Learning more about my camera, finding ways to get people to take more interesting photos for me & how to make a business out of taking pictures.

How did photography find you? I first began taking pictures in highschool for my newspaper and later became the photography editor too. While getting my Bachelor’s in Graphic Design I also took many photography classes that inspired me to take my photography a little further. Now while working as full-time Graphic Designer I have been doing photography on the side.

What is your favorite thing to take pictures of? I love taking candid photos of people. When someone looks back at my pictures I hope it takes them back to that exact moment & time.

How long have you been doing photography ? 8 years, but not as a business.

Do you have a photography business? If so, for how long? No, not currently. I am an assistant to a Photographer right now. I have been her (Karen Lucchini) for about 1 & ½ years. I hope to start my own photography business in the next year. I am moving in the next 2 months and I will try to build my business then.

What is your favorite food? Pretty much anything with sauce on it is good to me & also pasta or anything Italian is good to me too.

What is something you can’t live without? Lipgloss, Q-tips, diet coke or diet dr. pepper

What is something no one knows about you? I get embarrassed easily.

What is on your iPod or Playlist: Amos Lee, Ray Lamontagne, Sia & Rachael Yamagata

Are you a night owl or early riser? I’m more of a night owl.

What is your favorite guilty pleasure? Pasta, pizza & yummy ice cream.

If you could have dinner with anyone in the world…dead or alive, who would it be? I would probably eat dinner with my grandmother who passed away suddenly. I would have liked to spend more time with her.

What are some things that you like? My dog Lily, my family, & getting together with old friends.

What are some things you don’t like ? I hate the cold b/c I have an allergy to it & I don’t like it when people have large egos & forget where they came from.

When you can do anything, what do you do? Go to Greece, I’ve always wanted to go there.

What do you have to do before you die? Go to the Caribbean and hang out & relax on a sail boat for about a month.

Tell us something more about you: My name comes from the movie On Golden Pond

Funny I have red crazy big hair!

Serious: I am allergic to the cold! I get hives and itch really bad.

Entertaining I can just play with my dog for hours. Sometimes I think she understands me more than people.

Philosophical We all want similar things, we just take different roads to get there.

Exciting I can’t wait to start my Photography Business!

True I don’t know what it takes to make my business successful.

Meaningful I am not afraid to take chance, especially if I know I’ll be better off by taking the chance.

Powerful I believe that if I set a goal I will achieve it.

Name 2 of your weaknesses: Organization & having to make quick decisions

Name 5 of your strengths: dependable, truthful, leader, can get along with almost anyone, I can come up with new ideas easily.