Incremental

I was lucky enough to have a photo session with my friend and favorite photographer, Skye Moorhead, earlier this year. (Thanks to Chris at Geltz Comm.)

I arrived a little early and witnessed another woman being photograped. She looked beautiful, but she wasn't moving or changing expression while the photographer clicked away. I learned from this and made a mental note to make like a model so that all 150 pics didn't look the same.

I was ready for my close-up.

I sat down in the chair and started making large, gross changes in both my pose and expression. I'm sure the results looked goofy and unnatural. And then Skye spoke one word that changed everything. "Incremental."

I caught on immediately and started making subtle, almost imperceptible, changes in pose and expression. Nearly all 150 of my photos look great and I have a tremendous variety of poses and moods to select from. In addition to two talented photographers, a creative makeup artist and beautiful lighting, I believe a big part of the success of the shoot came from that one word, incremental.

Right now I'm trying to return to good health. Each morning I wake up mentally ready to bounce out of bed and take on the world again, but my body isn't ready. I want to make one big, sweeping move that will fix everything, but it's just not happening that way.

I am improving each day since I started the Prednisone on Monday, but the changes are gradual and incremental, not sudden and sweeping. I think Skye would approve.