Rey Kifuri (@birdsofrey) • Threads, Say more

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selling art is hard, but selling my soul- I mean... insurance for almost 6 years of my life was harder... so we persist. 🤗

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02/25/26

oh, and no shade to my old job. it was solid and helped me to be able to do what I'm doing now. I sold insurance for small businesses like artists and photographers and seeing those amazing people doing what they loved everyday was a huge inspiration for me. 🫶 however, knowing there was something i loved with my whole heart and not dedicating myself to it is why I felt like I was losing my soul, even if it was a good place to be. 🙏

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I think today was the first time that I bought supplies for my art business without feeling an insane amount of anxiety and stress. 🥹❤️

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Nature Photography

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gm from an owl the size of a tennis ball 🤗

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Gotta love seeing someone using my photo without credit or permission, plus people running it through AI in the comments. I made an account just to report it but it's so disappointing... :(

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I don't think I can express how awful it feels to see stuff like this. I flew to another state, then drove 3.5 hours to take this photo.

It was one of my first encounters with a burrowing owl and is a special moment for me.

I don't talk about this much but my photos don't just take time and patience to get. I invest pretty much everything I make right back just so that I can do this. Please don't steal. 💔