Month: January 2019

Less and More

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I’ve been debating my social media activities for the last several weeks. Instead of being fun, keeping up on various social media platforms feels like work. It feels like a lot of work and that’s the last thing I want. So I asked myself “What are my goals with social media?” Facebook keeps me in touch with friends from different past lives as well as my current one. As a vagabond, I find it a very handy way to keep tabs on what’s going on with people, from seeing baby Amelia’s monthly growth to wishing people happy birthdays to planning…

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Themes and Travels

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One of the ideas I’ve been mulling over while I’ve been on hiatus is how to think about my travels as something other than one long string of moves around the continent. So for 2019, I’ve decided to devote a few months at a time to specific themes. Within each timeframe, I’ll explore the theme in whatever ways I choose. If this sounds rather vague, it is intentionally so. I don’t want to pressure myself into a fixed plan with committed outputs like 3-4 blog posts a week. I want to go with the flow and see where that takes…

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2019: Begin Again

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Some people pick a word for the year. Mine for 2019 is YES. As is say YES to opportunities, to challenges, to new adventures and the undiscovered country. Some people make goals; I do intentions. My intentions are few: Photograph trees, a year-long photography project from the mind of David Du Chemin. The end result will be 10-12 images that are the essence of “tree” from my year of focusing on them (pun intended). Expect to see trees popping up a lot in my online images. And in my 52 Frames weekly images. Soak up history and connect it to…

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