This is Really Happening {Welcome!}

::tap, tap::   Is this thing on?

Holy cow, I’m on the internet.   This right here is the blog portion of C.B. Ward Photography — which is me, Christina Benson Ward.  At your service, in and around the greater Boston area.

How did I get here?  Well, I won’t start at the very beginning (it was a spring evening in Charlottesville, Virginia, just as the dogwoods were in bloom, as my mother tells it), but for the last handful of years I’ve been working as a corporate attorney.   Though it wasn’t very long into my legal career before I started to “secretly” pursue education and training (both formal and informal) in photography.  Over the last year, its become less of a “secret” thing and more like a “second full-time job” thing.  If you’d told me ten years ago that this type-A, self-described “non-creative” law-nerd would one day be starting my own business in a creative industry, I’d have assumed it was the punch line to a really good joke.   I can safely say that this is the most thrilling and terrifying thing I’ve ever done (and I have been mere feet from an about-to-charge rhino, so …).

This website is the culmination of so much dreaming, a fair amount of second-guessing and  lots (and lots) more hard-work, but, at the same time, it is only the very beginning of what I expect to be a lifetime of learning and growth.    I’d be honored if you’d join me for the ride.  Consider this your formal invitation.

Like most photographers’ blogs, this will serve as a place for  me to post my thoughts and favorite images from recent sessions. But I also hope it will evolve into much more than that.  I also envision this as a space where you {past, current or future clients, friends, random internet passer-bys} can get to know me and what I’m about on a between-the-sessions basis.  Sometimes I’ll post things from or about my own life, other photography that inspires me, and maybe the occasionally humorous jibber-jabber.   Because getting to know me is the same as getting to know my photography, as far as I’m concerned.   Of course, I hope you’ll like both.

One last thing: see that “Add a comment” button down there?  I’m pretty sure it works, but how can I be certain unless you test it out? Let me know you’re here and I’ll love you forever (true words).