May 23rd, 2021
This album represents a fairly unthematic, miscellaneous collection of photographs. At this point, I was feeling fatigued by how much theory I was putting into each subsequent photo project, and I began lugging my camera around more out of habit than an actual desire to photograph. In this particular setting, I was rewarded for that habit. As you'll see, this post runs the gamut of my usual subjects: flowers, birds, textures, Sam, etc.
My interest in time-consuming photo projects fluctuates, and during the lulls I convince myself that if I spend time taking pictures then I'm not actually present to enjoy the world. It was the striking texture in "Foliostratus" that compelled me to start photographing at all, but I restricted myself to only shoot when necessary and not "hunt" for images so to speak.
This limited interest would extend throughout the rest of 2021, although I would muster up enough ambition to photograph an album every few months. I was realizing that living on my own with no family trips to incentivize me and no school projects to prompt ideas forced me to rediscover how to create photo opportunities on my own.