by Chris | Aug 10, 2025 | Photography
I started a purposeful journey toward improved mental and emotional health in 2020. One pattern I’ve noticed is this: Learn of blind spot → Do work to clear blind spot → Space now exists where it didn’t before → I grow into that space → People in my life...
by Chris | Aug 9, 2025 | Photography
This snap was uncroppable. But even so, I loved the balance of colors and how the metering came out. The fore, mid and backgrounds play perhaps too obviously, but I still got a kick out of it. The fantastic banality! The human-centered designer in me questions the...
by Chris | Aug 8, 2025 | Photography
Sometimes it feels like the messaging is just outdated. Like Sydney Sweeney trying to sell American Eagle jeans by being pretty, or Jason Momoa trying to tell me I’ll look like him if I buy his creatine powder. I thought that, by now, we might be past this kind...
by Chris | Aug 7, 2025 | Photography
It’s funny how we craft the world into an image, don’t you think? This scene reminded me of that sometimes overreaching tendency, with its spiral floral lamp, painted electrical box, yellow flowers and literal brick road. It’s not unlike the road to...
by Chris | Aug 5, 2025 | Photography
The beautiful chaos of this snap reminded me of this poem I wrote in 2008, Breathless Chord. Here’s an excerpt: Your mysteries they swallow me whole – Surf the silence down the throat. I cut the curves and hug my board. Each muffled breath a soundless crash....