Posing Cards Update: We are at the Printer and so close its excruciating. I’m to scared to announce a date because every time I do, something has happened. My fingers, legs and eyes are crossed. They told me before Christmas but blah blah still nothing. I’m so close to announcing this please hang in there not long now.

Websites: I didn’t write a New Year Blog or an inspirational Blog I decided to just spend my time on holiday reading books. Something I haven’t done for years, it was glorious. Updated website coming in 2 weeks. YAH

You can’t make a comment on my Blog anymore (for some reason) thanks for all the emails this will be fixed really soon. WordPress (eye roll)

This is the only thing I want to say about 2013. Everybody dreams. I used to be crippled by public speaking. I mean crippled! hot sweat – nausea – shaking – humiliating voice cracking crying. Even when I used to stand up at workshops as an attendee and say Hi I’m Sue Bryce same thing. But I dreamed every night that I was on stage (I DONT KNOW WHY) actually I do know why. Because I had something to say, and I had something to teach. I had a struggle time in my first year move to Australia and I knew I wasn’t walking my true path. I knew I was holding my self back. But fear just stopped me from stepping forward. I told some people my secret dream. They told me I was stupid! You see, people only ever mirror back to you what you believe.

One day Michelle Tuddenham from Canon asked me to do a presentation. I bravely said yes. This was my commitment to face my fear, to overcome this horrendous block. I took 4 weeks to prepare, I walked along the beach every day and said my keynote out loud. Projecting my voice (no crying, no shaking) I walked on stage for my first keynote, the room was empty so many chairs. My throat closed, I couldn’t swallow, I stopped breathing and started choking, I nearly peed my pants, my bowels turned to water and I wanted to throw up but I hadn’t eaten for 24 hours.

The voice in my head said YOU CAN”T DO THIS. YOU’RE TOO OLD, TO FAT and they will rip you apart. The doors were about to open to 300 photographers, I couldn’t breath, blind panic – I shut my eyes and when I opened them I thought “I don’t have to make these people like me (some won’t) I don’t have to make these people like my work (some won’t) I just have to tell them why I love it SO MUCH. Because enthusiasm is like magic” Well that was the start of a magical 2 years.

I cannot hide my age, my weight, my accent, my work or my opinions, because I am all over YouTube ha ha So instead, I just accepted my self as I am and focused instead on allowing my self to live the life I dreamed of. Channeling all my energy in to giving powerful educational training workshops and presentations so I can share the many incredible gifts I have learned and gathered as a portrait photographer.

So when I look at the this photo, I say “How, How did that happen? and then I remember that Fear. I remember that Fear, will NEVER get in my way again!

WPPI 2012 1000 people looking back at me, including my Mum & Dad all the way from New Zealand (a very proud moment for me) A big thank you to George Varanakis & Arlene Cohen Evans you believed I could do it.

So there it is, DREAM BIG people. Bigger than you think you are capable of, then DO IT.

A huge thank you to Craig Swanson. Creator of creativeLIVE. You took a chance on me, and I will never forget it.

My Favourite quote this year: from Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American by BH Liddell Hart

“Among men who rise to fame and leadership two types are recognizable–those who are born with a belief in themselves and those in whom it is a slow growth dependent on actual achievement. To the men of the last type their own success is a constant surprise, and its fruits the more delicious, yet to be tested cautiously with a haunting sense of doubt whether it is not all a dream. In that doubt lies true modesty, not the sham of insincere self-depreciation but the modesty of “moderation,” in the Greek sense. It is poise, not pose.”