20 years over 50 awards and many workshops… Guest Presenter and competition Judge in Victor Harbor

Dated: 4 March 2025

Saturday 1 March 25

Yesterday I was a guest speaker in Victor Harbor at the Crown Hotel talking about my 20 year journey as a landscape photographer to several camera clubs. I was also on the judging panel of the yearly photo competition. I had a great day and enjoyed sharing a bit of my story to possibly help and motivate others. It’s been a wild ride with tears and tantrums highs and lows along the way. I got very emotional at one point which took me by surprise but I quickly realized it was about the reflection and how hard I had worked to get here…the journey…the recall of all the moments good and bad. They flooded me all at once as we watched one of my favourite drone video footage up on screen that I shared with everyone taken many years ago now in the outback of South Australia.

I touched on several points that were extremely important to me. One in particular was about being a woman travelling solo and another was building a business around that and the challenges especially in the early years as I was becoming recognized and winning awards regularly. I have always been underestimated through my life and often not taken seriously dismissed or made to feel like my work was not worthy. I didn’t let that stop me and used it to motivate and push myself to be the successful photographer I am today. It was not easy for me to deal with negative comments and I still struggle with that now. I was never thick skinned enough but I was smart enough to back myself. Passionate enough to keep photographing and driven enough to strive to be the best I could be.

I just want to say thank you to all of you for making me feel welcome and for allowing me to be seen. To all the people that came up to me to say they enjoyed my talk my honesty and how raw and real I was. You will never understand how much this means to me. It has put a pep back in my step.

Thank you so much. With new friends and new possibilities and new creative tools and training now available on my website I look forward to the next chapter of Julie Fletcher Photography.

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