Self Improvement

year 2017, week 03.

Monday.

I am still reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. In the chapter I just finished he wrote about banning all cars from National Parks. It is an interesting proposition. One that I could support (for the love of the land) but also challenge (for the love…

year 2017, week 02.

Monday.

I really need to get back into thinking about myself in terms of an environmentally aware photographer and writer. The past month or so I slowly drifting off course and now with the new year it is time to steady the course.

year 2016, week 41.

Monday.

That signal from the weather I mentioned a few weeks ago. Yeah it has arrived. This is now my favorite season. When the lush summer takes on the cold winter. The outcome is known, but the battle is always full of suspense. This year the battle looks like…

year 2016, week 38.

Monday.

What can I do when I have the time to make photographs but the weather doesn’t cooperate? The same goes with skateboarding. I was ready to skate the other day but then it rained as I was driving home. Then as I found an hour to make photographs the sky…

year 2016, week 37.

Monday.

Wow, I can’t believe it has been a year since I started writing these. It’s only been 9 weeks, get off your high horse Justin and in reality you’ve only had 19 reads on all 9 of them so shut the fuck up. You suck now get back to work.

year 2016, week 36.

Monday.

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(it was a holiday and I was in the mountains without cell service most of the day)

Tuesday.

year 2016, week 35.

Monday.

Today I start my first ever Instagram takeover and it is for ASMP New Mexico. Last Friday I said I stepped up and this was part of it. I had zero things prepared except a website full of work so I spent Saturday thinking about what to say and how to say…

year 2016, week 34.

Monday.

I have a hard time making something from my photographs. I’d like to say that I put so much energy into making them that I can’t find any more to make them into something else. But that would be a lie.

year 2016, week 31.

Monday.

I am feeling much better after this past weekend. Saturday morning after my daughter had her fill of cartoons we grabbed some water and my camera and set out for a hike. We had a pretty intense storm on Friday evening and I took her down to the big arroyo…