Everorange

It’s been nearly 10 years since this photo was taken. Shot on my trusty old 5D which has since been stolen out of the back of my car. I was digging through old photos for a project I have been trying to finish for something like two years now I think. The kind of project that I can never quite settle on the final answer for anything, so it hovers around above me when I decide to feel anxious about unfinished projects and ideas.

I don’t think I have shared it here before but it’s been so long now, who knows. In my digging around the archives I was thankful Apples Aperture still opens up (I think there’s a hack to keep it working in Catalina by the way.)

It was taken while traveling by car out west with YoungDoo in 2010. Sitting there in the huge library of images from that trip without a star or edit to its name. All it needed was a bit of contrast and it burst into life. This little forgotten piece of a golden Utah sunset waited all this time to be shared. I’m happy to bring these dusty pixels back to life and share something “new”. Enjoy!

(P.S – iPad link is for all mobile devices.)

Two AM

When I wake up at 2am I get to hear traffic slowly crawl into an audible hum, distant in the city streets. Nothing can get my mind back to rest. Time goes from late to early as morning birds start asking for the sun. Weary eyes, cold feathers, gentle calls. Giving up I leave for work, an early job today. Driving feels automatic, as if the road is a river simply pulling me along in its current. Starbucks preps for its first few customers. Grey hair and smoking old pickup trucks wait in the lot outside.

I can’t tell if I’m awake, I can assume consciousness but I’m not sure I can embody it this morning. At least my vocabulary seems in check. Writing feels as natural as my cautiously weary body feels tired and this conference room is still empty enough to focus for a few short minutes.

Sharing to share, side loading a post into an otherwise frustrating start to the day, wait. Theres an echo in here, a few words common and evergreen; enjoy the photo, from Korea long ago, links below, see you again soon?

(P.S – iPad link is for all mobile devices.)

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