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Big Twin Lake Michigan

Tweet  I’ve been really fortunate in that, throughout all the coming and going in my life, I’ve maintained a pretty close-knit group of friends that dates back to the middle of high school. With two of them getting married in the coming month we all headed up to a lake house in Michigan for a [...]

Red Tea

Tweet Josh in Athens, Ohio

Memorial Day

Tweet My grandfather died 10 years ago this Memorial Day. He was a Captain in WW2. The family went back to visit the grave in Fremont Center, Ill. As soon as the mass had ended and the grave visit finished the heavens opened up.

Overgrowth

TweetThe cultivation of what we are not is often a strange task. The grass was growing at an absurd pace. Then it all died.

Catharsis

TweetJanuary was a pretty good month and a decent start to the new decade in this little corner of the world. Some of the images I shot won’t be published for a bit though, so I’m going back to a cold night in the middle of the month. I’m lucky enough to live with my [...]

Turkey Hangover

TweetI hope everyone had a good chow down this weekend in some way shape or form. On another note, I just realized my sister’s name, Karoline Elizabeth Hoffman contains the same initials that name my favorite place to order used camera equipment (KEH.com). It must be a sign, sis. What the sign means, I don’t [...]

Tree House

TweetWhen I was younger my dad built an epic tree house in our modest backyard. It was bright blue with white trim and really complemented our bold pink house at the time. I’m sure it seemed out of place in the winter time but our bright colored digs would have fit in perfectly in Ft. [...]

Green Room / Moving on and Moving Out

Tweet My humble, now semi boxed up living space for the past year. It’s a weird time, I’ve finished graduate school, officially finished. I completed my coursework, defended my master’s project, I’m on my way out to pay my parking ticket so as to leave no debt here and get my diploma mailed to me. [...]

Breakfast Table

Tweet Some people can escape every time they sit down to read.

Bex Sandys

Tweet Bex Sandys is one of those people you meet and never forget. When I lived in New Zealand she was my (and my friends) key to getting out of the American bubble. We met Bex when we were looking for a place to live … we ended up in a small pub in this [...]