The great digital file back up has begun (and the digital file sale should begin next week — stayed tuned!) I have a 2 terabyte hard drive that will no doubt get filled with the TWO THOUSAND photo sessions I’ve done since Fun Prints began.

Today I got through the first year of my photography business – 1999. Bill Clinton was president. And we all thought airplanes were going to fall out of the sky at the millenium due to the Y2K computer glitch. Emily had just been born, and I wanted to do something where I could work from home.

I opened my doors in October that year, so I only had 22 clients for whopping sales of $3000. My books show me in the red by quite a lot with the purchase of lights, some drops, and about 80 rolls of film that I went through trying to learn how to set up the studio. I took out a teeny tiny ad in the newspaper, and the first few moms started coming.

Looking at the rolls, of those original 22, I still photograph several of those families 11 years later!

Sadly, it looks like about 6 clients’ images are non-recoverable. Don’t rely on CDs, people! But here are a few of my favorite shots from 1999.