So I made a very significant, and difficult decision last week. I decided, with the blessing of my parents, to start my own production company to launch hollyrandall.com as a member site totally separate from suze.net. This is the opportunity for me to finally branch out on my own, and attempt to achieve a distinctive style and separate business from Suze. I'm well aware that by following in my mother's footsteps that I pretty much just adopted her style, and didn't really get a chance to develop one of my own. I've done a lot of soul searching and changed a lot in these last two years, and I feel that this is the culmination of my growth as not only a photographer, but also as an individual. I don't know if turning 30 was the tipping point, but this has been a long time coming, and I've been ready for it for quite some time.

I'm still going to be working for my parents full time, but since Suze wants to start shooting again and production has slowed, it seemed like the perfect time to do my own thing. I know that this may not seem like the best economic climate to start my own business, but I am confident that I can build a fairly successful one. I am starting off with no financial backing from my parents, which is really the way I prefer it, but that does put me in a position in which I start off shooting on a shoestring budget. I welcome this challenge as well, and I am quite sure that I can still shoot and produce good content without having to throw a lot of money around. I'm working on a content trade basis with girls who have websites, and I've already got some great models lined up to shoot when I get back from Scotland in late October.

I'm not actually going into this venture to make a shitload of money so I can buy a yacht and build and infinity pool (though that would be nice) but I do think it will be a really good learning experience in teaching me how to become a better businesswoman by building a company from the ground up. I also think that the freedom which I have now to shoot what I want, combined with the challenges of not having the suze.net budget, will push me to become a better photographer. I am telling you all of this because I did my first shoot for hollyrandall.com today on Celeste Star, out in an abandoned dairy farm in the middle of nowhere. I have a few photos from the shoot to show, and I'm pretty excited about them. I know they're a little wannabe fashion-y, and possibly not really jerk-off material, but I will be doing more natural stuff as well. I realize that most guys may not find big pink eyelashes attractive. I just got a little overzealous on my first shoot, I guess. Let me know what you guys think!