First and Second Week of 2025
A couple subjects I want to hit before this blog really starts is I started writing this about something else when I started talking about something else and decided to scrap the entire blog and leave one section which is what you will read below before everything really begins.
Our first snow of 2025 being on Delilah’s 7th birthday could not be more perfect, and I definitely took advantage of it. I finished a roll of 120 film that I tested in a Kodak Tourist camera from 1948. It is a 610 camera that I made some adjustments to fit 120 in. I started the roll when I did Keiylah’s Senior Photos.
I also loaded a roll of 35mm into a Canon Sure Shot 80 Tele and shot the entire roll over the first two days of the snow storm.
I also spent a lot of time these first two days recording short videos to place together. I have been getting good responses on YouTube from these kind of videos and it doesn’t take a lot of effort so it works out really good. I get to practices shots and settings while also giving myself different areas and conditions to color grade so I honestly love everything about it.
It also gave me some time to work on a new preset that I have come to really enjoy using. I am not sure in other conditions how well I will like it but for the colors and snow and skin tone I think it compliments these photos amazingly. I am speaking of just the one above. I have been slowly very very slowly crafting an EveryDay preset pack. I have no goal of where to end on it. my goal is to create the most versatile Lightroom Preset Pack I possibly can for myself; I won’t ever put this one up for sale, but I am sick of purchasing packs to be disappointed and I love coloring on my own.
Shit where did this Blog go, are we talking about Delilah’s Birthday and our first snow of the year or being a fucking nerd.. Anyways.
And here we are, you will notice I marked out what this blog started out as at the end of the last section, that is because instead of focusing on that I wanted to just include everything from the first two weeks of the year just as a filler blog this week. This blog might be a lengthy one.
Taken with an iPhone 8 Plus
January 5th, 2018. I never knew that 7 years later so much would have changed, so much would have happened, and that we would be right here where we are right now. it has been an incredible experience watching this tiny baby grow, learn to crawl, walk, talk, read, do math, fall down, cry, get mad, it has been such a cray and amazing and beautiful 7 years we have loved every second of it.
We have all come such a long way, we have all done so much and I could not be more excited to capture more of it. I swear I am going to have to figure out my own data server once we buy a house for all of my video and photo stuff.
As I am typing this the Goals for 2025 blog is scheduled, and I am currently already in the works of some of the goals.
I finally have a tattoo artist interested in letting me photo a session, that doesn’t mean it will go through but it is a start.
I have shot the first photos that I know will definitely be going into the photo book at the end of the year. I am test printing the photos I decide on to make sure the colors and everything look good. I am just using a Canon Selphy CP 1300 so the quality will only be so good, but it gives me an idea. I know a lot of times the digital and physical photos can differ and I do not want to pay $300 per book to have photos that are not the best they can be. I still need to see if I can pay for a test print too.
Quality Check, essentially. Very ironic that the first test print had issues that I have never seen my printer have. I honestly couldn’t be happier that something like this happened. It’s great to have something like this to look back on. The whole purpose is to check how it prints and the colors started printing out of line, that’s amazing.
Getting in shape isn’t really a ‘‘new year new me’’ thing. I have been doing this trend of spending a couple months eating less and good and hitting the treadmill hard, and then spending a couple months taking a break and being more relaxed on how I am eating. I did however in the first two weeks hit a PR in 2025 of hitting 4 miles in under 1 hour. I want to document things like this, this year. Normally I have a mental note of everything and I can’t even tell you my fastest mile. I wish I could though.
I have already gotten in my head pretty good though which I am really good at doing. Seeing my photos and wanting to delete them, thinking about how something could have been better than it was, or that the colors just are not at all what I wanted and I get really upset about it. I am going to my Sigma more often right now than my Sony lens. I am shipping off my Sony later this month to temp exchange with someone in Florida so I can test the Sim 24-70mm f/2.8 II. I can’t wait to try that out and share my experience.
It has been a pretty good and exciting year so far and as long as I keep everything on track all of my goals I have set will be achieved before the end of the year. I am going to take more time with next weeks blog though. I want to make sure it is as good as it can be.
