Hibernating
A second Trump administration is disastrous for the world and will negatively affect you and everyone you know. Plus, it’s really cold outside. So I haven’t been going out much to shoot yet this year. I do have some photography plans queued up, and new-to-me gear I’m excited to use. And by not going out much, I just mean I haven’t been forcing daily shooting like I did in past years. I have used weekends to visit beautiful places to shoot, braving the wind and cold the best I could. Those photos (mostly film, interestingly) will show up on this website and/or my Glass profile eventually.
The break from daily forced shooting has been great for my wellbeing and has restored my photography hobby as the mental balm it always should’ve been. Sure, I want to get better and better at photography (whatever that means) as quickly as possible, but nothing described with terms like “hustle” and “let’s gooo” can lead to calm and considered creation. If I described a well known YouTuber as “the Michael Bay of photography,” many of you would know who I’m referring to. While entertaining to watch, that’s not what I want for my soothing hobby. I’ll continue to be the Michael Bay of stacking and hauling firewood, thank you very much. But I’ll also be the happy-but-commercially-insignificant indie filmmaker of photography.
Here’s a set I took around the yard after our first real snow of the season (the kind that stays the rest of the winter), before hauling in the day’s firewood.
