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.
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.
Busan
The first part of the trip went ‘normally’, insofar as such things are possible for two men who have known each other for almost 30 years to go normally in another country. Picking him up from the train station was complicated, if only because cell service is hard to come by for international travelers.
A day-ish I’ll (hopefully) never re-live
“Practically unlimited magnification capability” is what my soul and my psyche desperately needed at this time in my life- but I had to settle for it as a film stock.
Snow in, snow out
Snow is at its most virtuous when it is untouched. It reminds us of the beauty of nature unmarred by human meddling. How quickly these images leave, when then touched by the path of feet, cars, and children making snowmen. It felt right to use my favorite (and most malleable) film stock to keep those images for as long as I could.