A year around the sun.

Two years ago, I was living in Brooklyn with two amazing roommates and my sister was back in the Northeast. Just a few months earlier, I had lost my job, gained a news one and started a fresh, independent chapter in my life. I visited my friend in South America, took my first work trip to Austin and went on a solo road trip down the coast of Southern California, where I would live one year later.

It took me a while to sort through all the footage, condense it down, and relive moments that brought brightness (and darkness) to my life. But ultimately, I was able to turn out this 4 minute video that described my life in that year. Even the boring, but artful moments that were rooted in loneliness, or the tired, late New York City nights. This paints a picture of New York, of my friends there that I deeply miss. 

It's interesting looking back on a piece like this when you live in all the way across the country from where it happened. When you realize that some days you want nothing more than to go back to that time and place, but then at the same moment you realize nothing is the same there anymore, and those times have passed forever. 

I think that's called growth or something.

One a days.

When I was living in New York I made the effort to post once a day. But I wasn't always posting in the moment, I was searching through old memories to look back on, all the pictures that I had saved up from adventures.

When I moved to LA I was constantly living in the moment and not recording much, not even my new adventures because I was shy around new groups and taking in everything for the first time. I still want to strive to live in the moment, but I want to make an effort to record more of the moments, because it's always something i've felt passionate about doing. I love to use my DSLR but I still have so much more room to grow as a photographer.

So, i'm using this year as an exercise, to capture the beauty of the mundane if i'm working all day or making the extra effort to make my day a little more special or record the fashion i'm loving. It's a new goal of mine to try my best to expand my creativity outside of work again.

Here's to #1 and my new jacket which I bought to totally copy one of my best friends back in New York.