Recently, I did something WAAAAAY outside my comfort zone. I agreed to be a presenter at the 2024 Canadian Imaging Conference, put on by the Professional Photographers of Canada in Victoria, BC.

The idea was terrifying to me. I am not a public speaker. I still remember attending my first Canadian Imaging conference, which was only 7 years ago, in 2017, and being soooo intimidated by all the “real” photographers. I could barely bring myself to speak to anyone there, I was afraid they’d ask me a technical question about photography that would expose me as the fraud I felt like on the inside.