2026 01 08: End ICE
I’m reeeeally doing my best to avoid the news these days for my own sanity’s sake, however, this cute lil guy felt appropriate today considering yesterday’s news out of Minnesota.
Fuck ICE. Stay safe out there, y’all.
2026 01 07: Keep it 100
In attempting to make good on one of my year-end resolutions (see: 2025 12 30), I’ve got my “Keep it 100” portraits sessions on offer from January 8-13. Since I opened up bookings so last minute, I’m going to have a very hard time of getting people to sign up, which will likely spiral me back into a pessimistic outlook on the whole thing. Ho hum. If you want to book a session, you can do so here; and if you use the code KEEP-IT-100, you’ll unlock the insanely low price of $100 for an individual session.
2026 01 06: Creative Resolution
My Creative Resolution for 2026
Last year I was planning to make a big pivot both to making motion work and hitting the streets once again as a photographer (see: 2025 01 06). The thinking was, by putting myself into the city and regularly making work wherever the roads and trains took me, I’d be influenced and inspired while simultaneously building a new body of work and getting my name out there. As it happened, I failed at both. This is not to say I didn’t have a successful year from a creative perspective, however, the specific goals I’d set for myself were not met. When I stop to think why this was the case, I think it was largely because I got distracted with life events and ultimately the reason for picking these tasks was misaligned with the reality of how to best achieve my bigger career goals.
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2026 01 01: Becoming a Daily Blogger
It feels appropriate to check in on the blog in this, the first day of a fresh new year. As this website was set up, I start a new blog section each year and thought it would be a good idea to try a slightly new visual approach this time. While the writing has always been my primary focus around here, I am a photographer after all, so it makes sense to attempt to create a more visually-appropriate layout. That said, I think the limiting factor is the platform I’m using. The provided tools are quite basic and will never be able to do the things I’d love to create without a significant time and money investment. It’s just not worth it for what it is (a space for me to mostly talk to myself). Acknowledging this fact has been a huge improvement for me personally, as I tend to be a perfectionist to a detrimental degree.