The end of Forest Rat?

Well I see that it has been better than 7 months since my last post. I’m really sorry about that. It’s been a long strange trip.

I don’t want to go into details here, but a couple of things have kept me from blogging.

The big one has been my wife’s illness. I’ve spent a good part of the past months either at one of several hospitals or at home taking care of my son. My wife is not 100% yet, but she is home and starting to pick back up where she left off.

In the meantime after working 19 years at a small midwestern medical lab, I’ve lost my job. The lab was bought out by a much larger national lab and was slowly absorbed. I knew where all the data was kept so I lasted for quite a while, but once it all got moved over to their data center, I wasn’t needed anymore.

I decided to take a chance and use this as an oppurtunity to take a break from computers and see if I can make it on my own as a photographer. Yikes!

To make this work I’ll need to branch out from the artsy stuff I’ve been doing and get into portraiture and commercial work – something that might actually afford me an income. I decided I need a more general name for the business to go along. After playing around with lots of crazy ideas, I finally decided to keep it simple and just name it Mark Whitney Photography.

I’ve started a new blog at http://markwhitneyphotography.wordpress.com/ and a new website at www.markwhitneyphotography.com.

It’s all in the early stages so bear with me as I get it all ramped up. I need to get things going soon - living off severance and savings with no income is getting real scary.

I’m going to leave Forest Rat here, but any new posts will be over at the new blog. I’d love it if you checked it out.

Thanks for all your support and kind comments over the years and I hope to continue to hear from you.

MDW

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