Blog Challenge: Day 3: Meaning Of My Business Name

This one ought to be interesting. I have a photography business. Granted, it's small, no one really knows about it, and I haven't had any great gigs yet, although, I DO have a very talented author that is booking head shots with me in the VERY near future! So, on to my business name.

I took a photography outing with my best Banana. We took this amazing spring day to peruse local cemeteries. I took my pictures, came home, edited them and put them on my Facebook page. Well, Banana messaged me informing me that she kinda hated me a little because I am really quite good at this picture taking thing. (She herself is an AMAZING photographer.) (See her photography business HERE.)

Months passed, and one day, Banana says to me, “You really SHOULD start a photography business. You are super talented.” So, I said, “I don't know what I would call my business.” Banana proceeds to tell me to get my shit together, figure it out, and get a Facebook page. So, I thought. For a LONG time. I decided that since most of my photography stuff is random, old, and intriguing, I would honor my Great Grandmother and name my baby after her. She had a beautiful name, and she was a BEAUTIFUL soul. What better name?

I called aforementioned Banana, and informed her of the name I chose. She fell in LOVE. Some time went by, I sat on it, did nothing, (mostly because I am a big fat procrastinating weenie), and Banana calls me. “Please don't be mad at me. Please. I didn't do this to make you angry. I did it because YOU wouldn't.” “What the hell are you talking about?” “I kinda started a photography blog for you.” “You WHAT?” “Well, I knew you wouldn't do it, so, I did it for you. Get on the computer, I will send you the link.” What I saw next literally made me cry. Here I sit, on the phone with Banana bawling my eyes out. Not because she had stepped on my toes. Not because she had taken the reigns from me. Because she BELIEVED in me. She believed so much in me that she created an entire blog for MY business. The words she wrote were beautiful, and amazing, and so me. She gets me. It's not every day that you find someone that believes so much in you, and understands you completely. I am forever grateful to my Banana. She is the reason that Addie Mae Photography was born, and why she exists today.

Thank you Chiquita. I love you forever and always. Thank you for loving me, and believing in me, and sticking a cattle prod in my ass when needed. You ROCK!

There you have it. That is how my little Addie Mae Photography was born. I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I enjoyed sharing it.

Til tomorrow!

~Lou~