a year of creative blocks, second guesses, small breakthroughs, nervous fits, and other consequences that i’ve come to expect from choosing to sometimes live life through an intermediary

a collection of photos from 2025

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taken on: fuji x-h1, olympus xa, canon eos 650, panasonic lumix dmc-lx3, panasonic lumix dmc-lc43, canon sureshot z135

stanley park, vancouver - a photo i edited shortly after deciding how i would format this page and, in honor of that decision, now its lead photo

from the harley davidson homecoming, milwaukee. touring often takes me to events i never even knew existed (the harley davidson homecoming), and places where i would never think to be (milwaukee)

at the same time, this life and its body have taken me to places where i might... absolutely expect it to go

and places that i've considered to be home

and the less so (like the doorway of the guardian building in detroit)

either way, each year i learn how to better recognize/harness the inspiration from the obvious (like seeing cindy lee at massey hall)

in any case, it’s a pleasure/privilege/pastime to get to capture this life this way, and i hope to do it for as long as i can attest to/afford to/feel inspired to

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… thanks for following my suggestion!

below is a selection of digital photos from a july tour with sierra ferrell

taken during the brief moments i could steal away from the merch table

and here’s some 35mm photos from september, with mac demarco

a month in which i finally got to pass through radio city (a self-imposed career milestone)…

… a month in which i also realized that some of my milestones had gotten to be a bit outdated

and that there were less likely places out there for my brain and body to be inspired by

like the phoenix theatre in petaluma, ca - a diy space overseen by a 70-year old man and a staff of volunteer skaters

or the definitely haunted mcmenamins grand lodge in forest grove, or

as i mentioned at the top of the page, i spent much of 2025 battling a pervading sense of career skepticism (and probably also a mid-life crisis), but as the year went on i learned to acclimate and honestly appreciate the challenge of working through the feeling. i’m still not over it, but each day it feels a bit more healthy and a bit more essential to what’s next for me.

for someone who’s gotten to where they are through some concoction of:

sheer will and a calcified mid-millennial grindset
location-dependent happenstance and, yes, networking
good decisions
bad ones too
and the occasional divine intervention - among other factors, i can’t begin to inventory them all on just this page…

…that concept of “what’s next” (and the worry associated with it) has begun to weigh less on me with time. it’s a privilege to feel such a way, but i can say with full conviction that i’ve earned the relief.

that said, i think my next couple years of photographing involve a turn away from analog methods and back into a more digital feeling approach. i know i’m not the only nostalgist for the look of the turn of this century, but i think that’s because this tech-frazzled contemporary world seems to warrant it.

a younger version of me would have then gone on to title this next section something like

“dispatches from the tech-frazzled contemporary world”

but that wouldn’t even make sense thematically

really it’s just a selection of test shots from a few different panasonic lumix point and shoots that i’ve been cycling through the past three or so months

at an airbnb upscaled motel outside of joshua tree

pino palladino, blake mills, chris dave and sam gendel at aladdin theatre

good mong kok bakery, chinatown san francisco

waiting for tacos outside of joshua tree

stanley park vancouver (same for the three photos that follow)