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I used to be such a big proponent of getting out and shooting for yourself for fun.

To be clear I still am, I just haven’t taken my own advice lately. I started to let “busy” become my entire personality. I started to make excuses to not do the thing that I love doing. Just walking around with a camera and finding interesting things to take photos of.

I could lead this into a whole diatribe on perfectionism and growing a business (and a business that sells creativity at that), but I think I’ll just save that for the inside of my head.

The sky, under no real obligation to impress, softened itself into those improbable South Florida pastels. Colors that feel less seen than briefly permitted. Walking the beach at sunset becomes a quiet exercise in noticing: the tide repeating itself with bureaucratic certainty, the horizon slowly clocking out, the day ending not dramatically but thoroughly. The sand cools, the light thins, and you get the faint, suspicious sense that paying attention like this might actually be the point.

An incredible group of people on an incredible adventure. Grateful is the understatement of the year. August 12th-26th, 2025 spent rafting the Colorado River and camping in the Grand Canyon.