Diary of a Landscape Photographer | Entry 1

3/1/2021 - The Sunday before my first Monday of ‘unemployment’.

It still hasn't sunk in yet.

I'M A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER!!

Two and a half years ago I hadn't worked a camera. I was a van driver at City Electrical Factors. I'd spend my days listening to personal development podcasts while delivering plug sockets and conduit among other things to the sparkies around Mid Wales.

I'd also just embarked on a journey to become a personal trainer, thinking that taking gym selfies for a living and telling people to eat their complex carbs was where my future was.

One weekend, I received a phone call from my best mate asking me to take a spontaneous trip up to Pistyll Rhaeadr. I'd never been. 18 years in Mid Wales and I'd barely made it past Rodney's Pillar on my expeditions. For some unknown reason that day, I decided to nick my sisters DSLR (bleurghh... Nikon. I washed my hands twice afterwards). I stuck the thing in manual mode and the rest, I believe they say, is history.