Category: Journal

The Alto has been liberated from its backyard spot, the hitch is back on the Subaru, and I woke up this morning to this view… Yes, I’m on the road again. Two and a half months in Gainesville was a wonderful refresher. I caught a few music shows, checked out an arts and crafts fair, borrowed a zillion paper library books, walked all over town, and, most fun of all, hung out with my friends and their friends. More importantly, I had time to think about how I want to go forward, and why, and those were questions I needed…

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…

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…

As I finish up my look back at 2018, there’s one last thing to do… THANK YOU FOR READING! I love it when you leave comments and let me know how much a post meant to you or how a photo brought back a memory for you. I enjoy sharing my travels and can’t wait to get back on the road in a few weeks. Stay tuned, the 2019 adventures are almost here! Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer…