So, again, it's been a minute. I go through these times where I'm not getting paid work for months on end, and then get suddenly slammed with an unhealthy amount of work and travel.
St. Anne the Wife and I snuck off to Portland and the Oregon coast back in October. While we were there I got in another interview for my rubber stamp doc with a dude from See See Motor Coffee. We also found out about another stamp collecting club based in the area, so I'm hoping to get back out there to connect with them soon enough.
November somehow ended up with tons of editing and a trip out to NYC. On that trip I got to interview Henry Hargreaves who runs the Coffee Cups of the World Instagram account for my rubber stamp project; cool dude who's tack sharp if you ever get a chance to connect with him.
Then December just barreled on through: back to NYC, more editing, four days out in San Francisco immediately followed by four days in Connecticut, Anne & the boys off school for winter break, back out to NYC thankfully with St. Anne the Wife that time, and finally a quick(-ish) day trip to Chicago.
All that travel and work nonsense finally caught up to me at the tail end of the year and I've been weirdly sick. I've taken what seems like a half-dozen Covid tests but they've all come back negative. I'm still not completely out of the woods, but I'm hopefully on the tail end of this dumpster fire.
Besides all the frequent flyer miles these last few months, I also crammed in more books than I'd read in years. I was making it through one book a week with all the time I was sitting on a plane. Hopefully this habit will stick through 2022.
There's also the used Mamiya RB67 medium format film camera I picked up in New York just before Christmas. I've only shot a few rolls of film through it so far, but dang it's been an interesting departure from the cameras I'm normally shooting through. Oddly enough it's crazy similar in size to my RED Weapon camera body. It's heavier than it looks, but no where near the cinema cameras I'm used to lugging around. No doubt a different workflow and hopefully it'll help me to slow down and be more intentional with the images I'm making.
