Spring is finally here in Ottawa. Doesn't feel like it today with a windy, cold day. Had to run around and get stuff done today. I start a new contract on this coming Monday. It's a long one. Till March 31, 2020 with the possibility of two one year contract extensions. I don't think I have to worry about a job looking for a job anytime soon. Which is a good thing. I need this. It pays well too. Above sixty five thousand dollars a year which is fantastic. I'll be able to pay off some credit card debt and maybe go on a vacation or two.
To help out, I am thinking of creating some podcasts and doing photo reviews as a YouTube channel to earn some other money on the side. I of course am not getting any support from family or the girlfriend. They do not support my photography career. But luckily I am not here to make everybody else happy. I have to do what I enjoy doing. And that is spending time with the camera.
The good thing working in downtown Ottawa is I can bring my Sony RX100 Mark VI with me. If you've read any of my previous posts, this is by far THE best pocket camera out there. So after work, I can go walk around downtown Ottawa and take photos incognito with the Sony RX100 Mark VI and no one will notice. During the summers, every Wednesday, there a lot of people doing yoga on Parliament Hill. A few years back, I was on the hill with my Canon EOS 6D and a Canon f2.8 16-35mm lens. I of course got stopped by the RCMP and told to show them what pictures I had taken because there were complaints about photographers "peeping" women with the spandex pants on. I showed the RCMP my shots which were all wide angle shots of people on Parliament Hill. With the Sony RX100 Mark VI, I can take those peeper shots and put the camera in my jean pocket and no one will be the wiser. Except for me of course. Now, I upload pretty much all my shots to Shutterstock, Pond5 and Storyblocks, so those peeper shots won't make it onto those sites. This would of course make an excellent podcast about peeper photographers and the RCMP.
