Photo Journal

I returned to writing a blog because I wanted an outlet for the impulse to post on Instagram. Social Media has been a source of a lot of anxiety in the past year. Granted, the real reason for the anxiety doesn’t go away by avoiding Social Media, but I kinda have to live in ignorance of each day’s atrocities in order to stay sane. But I digress…

Since I started writing here, I’ve found myself pulling many of my more benign thoughts out of my journalling sessions. These blog posts have become a kind of photo journal. If I were to set a resolution for myself, it would be to put more time and effort into the things I love. Last year, I feel like that effort went into the relationship I have with my wife, and it has seen us grow closer and recapture a lot of the giddy joy of our early years together. In 2026 I see myself trying to do that same sort of thing with myself, and the primary way I see myself doing that is photography.

I’m trying to be more honest with myself about capacity and the ways fear restrict my actions and narrow my horizons. The biggest hurdle is seeing the distinction between those. At my day job, it is really a question of capacity. With my photography and what I want to do and say with it, it is more the fear. My goal right now with this blog is to examine that fear. Not every post will be on that, but it is an undercurrent for all the work I’ve made in the past several months, and I feel like that’ll be the case for quite a while.