January 4, 2013

I am home back in California from my trip abroad. I am ready and eager to create and dig into 2013. I think 2012 takes the cake for best and worst year of my life. BUT If 2013 can bring me anything close the peace and growth and joy I have experienced than I welcome it. Life is meant to be lived. Good bad and ugly, these things make life richer, deeper and give you a new appreciation for things you had never considered before. I’ll take it all and am thankful and I know that I am blessed to be where I am, see what I have seen and have the opportunities that I do.

I have the desire to create. To make beautiful and evocative images. I am in awe that I get to give myself the title photographer and am honored with the opportunity to photograph someone’s wedding day or attempt to capture someones essence in a photograph. Through my travels I got to see how photography effects cultures, changes history, molds perception and exposes truth. Because of these things we both love and hate photos. What we see is sometimes what we want and sometimes what we don’t want. It is both a breath of fresh air and a rude awakening. Shall we not be honest with ourselves and comfortable in our own skin? When do we start to live a life of being genuine to ourselves? This is my goal resolution for 2013. To live a genuine life. To love freely, find joy wherever it may be and be comfortable in my own skin. What is your resolution for 2013?