This year has been absolutely insane. It's the year I learned so much about myself. It's a year I spent growing and breaking, healing and hurting, and everything else in between. But it's also been a year where I learned just how amazing it was to embrace photography and its importance. Photography has always been a huge part of my life. But only recently do I feel it's changed who I am.
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This first picture I look back in January at a music festival. You all might know about me and Kyle, or Mr. Simmons. This was taken in the beginning of our relationship. It's my favorite picture because I feel it captures both me and him perfectly. You see I like to hide behind the camera, and he loves to be in front of it.
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This second picture is of my niece while on vacation. I've always thought of myself as a free spirit. We can all agree that my life has been extremely unconventional and just fucked up (I shouldn't use this word). When I look at this picture I think of myself because of the curiosity you see in this picture. Since I was a baby everyone has always told me that I was the one who always got lost because his head was in the clouds. But I think that it's funny because to me, that was almost a compliment instead of an insult. Sometimes real life's more fucked than fiction and sometimes I just wanna be free of it all.
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This third picture is probably another of my favorite pictures ever taken. It's literally just Kyle in one of those anonymous masks. But something about this picture gives me the chills. I think it's the eyes that get me. The way they're completely black and you can't see his eyes. This is the type of picture that made me love photography.
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And this last picture is what I think of as my mental health. Everyone here knows the amount of struggling I've done mentally at least. Or at least you know a little bit, it doesn't matter. The point I'm trying to make is that mental health is so weird. At first glance it's something so simple, aka the phone in the picture. And you focus on this one component, and then you realize it's this huge mountain. It's this huge hurdle that takes the whole part in focus to really take care of and treat. It takes a large f-stop to see the whole picture. (catch the pun?)
So yeah I'm definitely rambling on about topics that are way beyond my capacity. But these four pictures are something that I would say represent me. My wonderful best friend, curiosity, darkness, and an up hill battle are some things I would use to describe me. I hope you all have had a great year and maybe learned a little something about photography. I hope that I haven't killed any of your passions because that is my worst fear. Thank you all for everything, and supporting me when I needed all you the most.
--- Thought it would be kinda cool to include this idk I'm stupid
