I am many things.
If you found this from my artsier Instagram page, you’ll already know that I often prefer to have words to go along with my images.
Call it vanity, call it ADHD, I just sometimes need people to know what I think. This is the space for me to discuss that.
This is also the space for me to write voluminously at/about/around pictures I take. It’s a safe bet, at this point, that I “yearn to be a street photographer”.
(Hence the title.)
As such, this blog will be random writings couched in the language of “here’s words needed to make more sense of the world around me”.
This intro, like me (and us all), is a work in progress.
“I have an idea”
To add, I still had a number of rolls of film sitting in my fridge. I had a few more things planned (blogs coming soon!), but also wanted to avoid bringing more extra film home than needed. I would bring some home, certainly, but wanted to minimize it.
Finally going where the people are
The lights of Seoul felt brighter that night. I’m glad I had a good lens and film to capture them with.
This is how we win
Porchfest is exactly as you’re imagining. A bunch of houses in a neighborhood block in Tacoma hosting outdoor music shows. People bringing their families and kids to listen to music, engage in community, to be around each other. And beyond that, it provided an opportunity and a space for everyone in the area to remember that this is how we win.
The Mariners will wait, but not forever
So I picked up a couple rolls of expired black and white film, knowing I was going to come to a Mariners game with my buddy Shane. Black and white film (plus being expired) feels fitting for a baseball game, especially my first game of the year. And with the confluence of emotions I’d been feeling recently, combined with the outpouring of emotions I feel when I’m at a game (especially my first game of the year), everything made sense flowing together.