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Roll Call: First Frames of 2025

FAIL

The New Year started off pretty crappy. The roll of film I anticipated developing didn't auto rewind, and I might have had a frame or two left in my camera. I'm not going to blame myself because shooting film is always rainbows and unicorns damnit! Am I smiling right now or simply grinning and bearing it? We’ll never know.

I wiped away my thug tears and moved on to the next roll. These are a few frames I shot in November/December 2024. One of my resolutions this year was getting back to basics and developing my own film black and white film again. Feels good to roll up my sleeves, hands smelling of fixer.

Wishing everyone a creative 2025. Stay shootin’.

Photography full circle. Made this frame in an Apple Store during a iPhone photography and videography class. I much prefer my Yashica T4 over my iPhone for making photos.

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Ode to Summer

Something about that summer light by the water. Miss it already.

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Lately

Read an article in the New Yorker this week about Instagram photo dumps. The premise of the article was that posting albums of 20 photos nowadays, a photo dump, is the only way to garner any attention on the platform.

“On today’s social media, the only way to counteract the overflow of online content is to put out an overflow of your own.”

All that to say, I’ve always been a proponent of the snapshot. Photography doesn’t always need to be so serious and have a story arc, a snapshot or series of snapshots is just fine too. That is precisely what I did on a recent business trip to Austin.

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“Stay shootin’ | Shoot for self. ”