DO WHAT YOU LOVE. LOVE WHAT YOU DO.

Yesterday as I was ogling food blogs as I am known to do, I came across the amazing and inspirational Beatrice Peltre. She is a a renown food writer, stylist and photographer.  That's not so special right?  Those peeps are a dime a dozen.  She also writes a blog.  Yawn.  But what if I told you she started her blog, not knowing really what a blog was or where she was going but she put fingers to keyboard because she was excited by an article she read about food photography.  It moved her.  Here's the article.  The photo below was Beatrice's first photo, for her first post.  She cooked,styled and photographed. Are you still with me?

{photo by Beatrice Peltre}

That was in late 2005.  What if I told you that Beatrice is now a full-time food writer, stylist and photographer?  She just got a deal for her own cookbook, her clients include Chronicle Books and the Boston Globe, amongst many others.  Her blog gets over 250k visitors a month. You see, Beatrice just needed that one little spark of inspiration and then she committed herself to her passion, the next photo was something she shot for the Boston Globe.  The Boston Globe!

{photo by Beatrice Peltre}

As you can see from the very first image, Beatrice was not a prodigy.  She didn't snap her first blog post photo with perfect lighting nor styled it flawlessly.  What Beatrice did have was the desire. Here's some more of her images to show you how far she's come...

{photo's by Beatrice Peltre}

As I read her blog, it didn't note that Beatrice went off to the Cordon Bleu, enrolled in photography school or interned for a food stylist.  These may be all excuses you give yourself to not get started on whatever it is you think you need to get started--X, Y, Z before you begin your dream.  The journey of a million miles starts with one step.  I hope this inspires you to take yours...I have to get ready for my 9-to-5'er but I will be thinking of Beatrice.

Visit Beatrice's beautiful bloggity blog here...