If there is one question I receive on a regular basis it's something like the following:

Dear Micah, I want to become a photojournalist, where do I start?

I figured that rather than trying to field everyone's emails one by one, I should write up my thoughts on the topic in a blog post. This is partly me being lazy, but I'll turn that laziness right around and call this post a "service to my community."

Before I begin I need to make a small disclaimer. I don't consider myself a professional photojournalist. I guess I used to call myself that, but I have since re-branded myself as just myself. Notice that my website just says "Micah Walter" and no longer has the "photojournalist" tag-line.

This has to do with a number of things that have happened to me over the past few years, but mostly because I am doing quite a few other things besides photojournalism.