Photo Finish's Beginnings

Chapter 4

Rejection.....and Tripping on the road to Fame

Years passed since Photo Finish got her Cutie Mark and she knew there was only one way to break into the fashion and photography industries. The now 13 year old Mare knew she had to take pictures and see if one of the big names in the various fashion photography would take her at all, Photo Finish had surely come a long way since her family moved away from Germaney and she got use to talking the way her father talks. Her family had also come a long way to, Mobius Lenses was a highly talented camera pony in the movie industries in Las Pegasus' famous Applewood studios, and her mother was working full time at her orange stand now.

These days Photo Finish encourages Sapphire Shores to follow her goal of becoming The Pony of Pop! And Video Feed, Photo Finish's grandpa was the only company she got in after school hours before Photo Lenses returned from work.

One day while out walking about looking for the next big thing for photography, Photo Finish saw some beautiful dresses. They matched the one she had when she was a filly and she wanted them so badly, after seeing the dresses she was more determined when ever to get a job in fashion photography. She studied hard until she felt she was ready to present her best photos to the boss of a fashion photography company for a fashion magazine, Photo Finish was excited when she heard there was a job opening and couldn't wait to see if she could get the job for her destiny and possibly a chance to become one of the most famous ponies in Equestria.

On a nice sunny day Photo Finish went in to the business building of the fashion magazine company, Photo Finish was as excited and nervous as ever when she entered the building and she said to herself "this is where the magicks begin!" she then went in for the job interview and met the boss of the magazine company.

The boss was an old and cranky fellow who was an earth-pony, he was interested in Photo Finish when he got a good long look at her. But when he saw her photos the bitter old stallion rejected Photo Finish "but I Photo Finish don't understand! What did I Photo Finish do wrong?" she asked the ill tempered stallion.

"Beat it! You're not going to get a job with me anytime soon, security come and please take care of this annoying client who's refusing to leave" the stallion said as his security came and picked up Photo Finish and tossed her out the front door and into mud in a nearby park. Photo Finish was sad because of this, she never had experience in getting rejected by somepony before. Photo Finish couldn't believe how mean the ponies were to her a few minutes ago, she walked home sad and it rained shortly after that and most of her lovely photos were trashed now.

She tripped a few times while walking back to her families apartment, she wondered so many things and had no questions for them. Her family wondered what had happened to her and she explained what happened "......so what do you plan to do now that you've been rejected a job Photo Finish?" Video Feed asked his granddaughter.

"I Photo Finish....don't know" she said as she was holding on to her lovely tail and brushed it with her hooves.

"Well you'd better now give up I'll tell you that" Video Feed said as he was starting with one of his old stories "why way back in the last great war Germaney was in I was working hard with the Prance liberation forces, we were outnumbered and low on supplies on every front and stranded in our bases. But did we give up....by Celestia we didn't give up at all! We never gave up even though we were told we couldn't do it and that we were to weak, we kept on moving until we finally saved Prance! That's not to different from the time I was rejected time and time and time again from various job offers but I never gave up and I got a job that was fitting for my destiny!" Video Feed said as he explained a couple old tales of his to a point.

"I think what your grandfather means in short my dear is, don't give up because the you were rejected. Keep searching for a job fitting for your destiny and I'm sure you'll get one" Photo Lenses explained.

"I....I......I Photo Finish shall not give up!" Photo Finish said after she wiped away her tears. Photo Finish tried hard for almost a month to find a job. But there was a sad moment that came, Photo Lenses got hit by a taxi driver on accident and her back hooves were injured.

Photo Finish and Video Feed were there for her and hoped for the best, they knew this meant that for a while or possibly the rest of their lives their only income would be from Mobius Lenses, until the earth-pony who owned the orange business in Manehattan came to check on Photo Lenses.

This ponies name was Mrs. Orange, she and her husband Mr. Orange owned all of the orange business in Manehattan. They were very kind hearted people who understood what the Lenses family was going through, Mrs. Orange agreed to continue to pay for all of the medical bills for Photo Lenses and to help look after Photo Finish. Photo Finish got to spend quite a bit of time with Mr. and Mrs. Orange as time went by and they noticed what a fantastic fashion photographer Photo Finish is, after about a year went by and Photo Lenses was healed up. Mr. and Mrs. Orange asked Photo Lenses if Photo Finish could be taken out on a fashion tour across Equestria. "Why do you want to take my daughter?" Photo Lenses asked.

"Because my dear, we plan to show Equestria the talent Photo Finish has in the world of fashion photography" Mr. Orange said.

"If everything goes well we're thinking of helping her start her own business" Mrs. Orange explained.

"Of course she can't come traveling looking like that so we bought her this" Mr. Orange said as he showed the exact dress Photo Finish had wanted that was just like the one she ware as a little filly.

Photo Finish could hardly believe at all what she was being told along with her family, it seemed to go to be true and after talking with her family Photo Finish decided to leave Manehattan and explore Equestria with Mr. and Mrs. Orange and Photo Finish's journey on the road to fame truly began the day she left Manehattan for the first time.