{"id":1050,"date":"2008-10-10T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julieharrisphotography.com\/blog\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2011-09-29T06:31:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:31:23","slug":"paris-101908-a-six-week-sabbatical-to-reclaim-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julieharrisphotography.com\/blog\/paris-101908-a-six-week-sabbatical-to-reclaim-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 10\/19\/08: A six week sabbatical to reclaim my"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYou need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours\u201d. Anne-Wilson Schaef<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It may seem ironic that I title this series of blogs a \u201csabbatical\u201d, and am still blogging. However, this will be a different kind of blogging than what I normally do. I will not be taking any shoots or blogging any past weddings or portrait shoots for the next six weeks (unless I shoot something here that I want to blog<\/b>). I am truly taking six weeks away from my life as I know it, to find my heart and fall in love with photography<\/b> again. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t love what I do\u2013or somehow think that wedding and portrait photography<\/b> isn\u2019t art\u2014it is indeed and I am quite confidant that I am an artist in this \u201cindustry\u201d. But I shot close to 40 weddings this season and probably doubled that number in portraits. I\u2019m pretty tired. Please know this\u2014 I do love what I do and feel very blessed to be able to make a living as an artist. I love all my clients and I love blogging their sweet stories everyday. However it\u2019s only natural that any extended period or piece of work draws heavily on our artistic wells. Julia Cameron says this, \u201cOvertapping the well, like overfishing the pond, leaves us with diminished resources. We fish in vain for why, \u2018just when it was going so well!\u2019 The truth is that work can dry up because<\/em> it is going so well.\u201d And that pretty much sums it up for me at the moment. I\u2019m out here for six weeks to stock the pond!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m staying in what the Parisians call a \u201cRabbit Cage\u201d in Montparnasse. My flat is no more than 300 square feet\u2013no TV, no bathtub, no back yard or washer and dryer\u2014just the bare basics, and (aside from no bathtub) I\u2019m totally excited with this. It\u2019s currently 1:30 am in Paris and I\u2019m spilling my heart out\u2026. I forgot to eat today, so I found a can of peas in the cupboard at my flat, and and am chasing them down with cheap red wine and cigarettes (it\u2019s Paris)! I\u2019m feeling pretty bat shit crazy, but will say that I am already starting to taste rejuvenation and rest (despite the not eating, smoking and drinking thing). \":)\" <\/p>\n

I plan on blogging pretty intimate snip bits during this little adventure, as well as posting some of my daily images\u2014Please feel free to follow along on this journey with me, and know that after 6 weeks in Paris, I will surely come home ready to conquer the world\u2014As a refreshed and fiercely creative Julie<\/b> Harris<\/b>.<\/p>\n

These next few images are me warming up\u2014they are images of or around my flat, and an exploration of Monparnasse and the cliche\u2019s that I have held about Paris\u2014-Yes. Cafe life is the life here <\/em>and I love it! With no itinerary or daily agenda, I find that sitting at a Cafe is a daily ritual for me\u2014two or three times a day, even!<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours\u201d. Anne-Wilson Schaef It may seem ironic that I title this series of blogs a \u201csabbatical\u201d, and am […]<\/p>\n

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