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Kepler

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Kepler

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Such Great Heights

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Such Great Heights

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Vestfirðir

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Vestfirðir

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Heart Tug

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The City Is My Church

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Northern Canada, 2018.

Part of what works for me as a photographer is something I call “checking my audience”. I probably haven’t talked about this to anyone if you’re reading but the idea is like sonar. I do calculated actions to elicit reactions out of my subjects. Those reactions are my guides to my next actions. If you’re a tough skinned individual I can be brutal. If you have fine senses I’ll poke around the perimeter but won’t breach your sensitivities. This has gotten me both in trouble and in confidence with many. Ultimately, for my self anyways, it’s fun and effective. Boringness and ineffectivity are what the dude cannot abide.

I’m looking forward to summer. Je réfléchis à l’été quand l’eau est beau et la bière est froid.

I’ve had a week of reflection and, truthfully, a bit of sloth. I have a time of work to process and things to do. Somehow though, I know they’ll all still be there tomorrow. Is that comfort or anxiety? 😬 don’t know, but it’s time to get cracking tomorrow.

IMO, solitude is a solvent that clears away mess of everything else in life and reveals the true you. I’ve always craved and feared solitude. It’s boring and liberating at the same time.

I read the @americanvirus interview on @arcthisis today. Jonas says “I don’t feel like the true author of the events I’m capturing. Everything is a collaboration. I find the more I try to give up control of an image, the more the world gives back something even better” and I feel the same way. For me, giving up control means accepting new possibilities or seeing conditions in a new light. When you’re on a ferry boat there is wind which I have no control. It messes up hair and outfits, it’s cold and uncomfortable. But viewing the windy condition through a lens of acceptance allows one to use it for something even better than what was ideally planned.

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