Christine Chang Photography

The website is done. I remember when it was only wishful thinking, but finally, here it is.

About a year ago in October I was still thinking about a website and a business, but I told myself it would probably be a few years before I started everything. I was engaged, living from paycheck to paycheck, and paying my graduate school loans back (still am!). I looked at prices to build websites and they were off the wall. After church one evening I was walking to the parking lot and Andrew Lin (he’s my web guy now) and I got to talking about our jobs and our dreams. Andrew loves his job but deep down inside he wanted to do something else involving graphic design. I loved what I was doing at the time too, but I knew that somewhere along the line photography is supposed to be a bigger part of my life.

Andrew and I are about the same age, I’m 27. Dreams come in a different package at this age. If I were 19 and out of high school, or still in college, I would just go for it. Earn $11 an hour at a grocery store and work very hard, go to school all the way and focus solely on achieving my goal. I did do this in the past to write the first draft of my book, and at that age, I wouldn’t have done it any other way. Not to say that I am old now, but now I have different priorities, and we both talked about this and how now’s the time to think faster and smarter. Dreams are achievable at every age, but methods to reaching your goal become different.

Andrew out of the blue says that that he can design a basic website for me, and I made him repeat himself several times because he wanted to do it for me for free, and I couldn’t believe him at first. Yes, free! It’s simple, he says at 11pm in the church parking lot. I can help you do this. Eventually I had enough money to pay him, and my friend Ethan helped me all the way from Alberquerque by scripting the website for me and finding programs to showcase my pictures. So with the help of my friends, here it is. With my husband and my family and all of my friends listening to me talk about beginning this business and supporting me, here it is.
Just the beginning.