Finally getting around to organizing my archive and finding all sorts of vignettes. Like this throwback to the time when I spent 3 weeks in Niamey, Niger.

I have taken delivery of mannequin heads for portrait light pattern practice. In a couple weeks, I should be ready to do human trials

I shot a parade last weekend. I’ve never been to one before, much less shot one. And I now have two rules I must follow for subsequent ones. 1 - Don’t shoot the parade. 2 - Stop down, for god’s sake

I’m shooting B/W to improve how I perceive light, but because I’m capturing in raw/jpg, I can see what could also be in the full spectrum when I go to review later, and it’s very…um…distracting? At least in the near term. Perhaps I should commit fully and just shoot JPG.

It’s sadly out of focus, but it’s got “character”, let’s go with that

I’m currently at the Dunning Kruger phase of photography where I’m convinced that this can pass for abstract urban geometry

Wish they’d kept the manual focus clutch on the 17mm. Ah well.

2025 Goals 🎯 📚 Complete 2/3 book projects 📸 Limit myself to 24mm photography 🎸 Learn Ableton Live + Major/Pentatonic scales 🎬 Switch to Davinci Resolve Sidequests ⚔️ 🚁 Drone cert + actual flight practice 🏊‍♂️ Learn to swim & drive 🍲 Acquire repeatable peppersoup recipe

I like the Meta Ray Bans, but what I really want are Apple Ray Bans backvlog.com/blog/im-waiting…

Hardest line in “Love Me Jeje”: “You know your love turn me up like NEPA”.

Being an introvert filmmaker is a special kind of lonely. Your friends don’t understand why you want to hang out at 4am.