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journaling…is simply writing down your thoughts and feelings to understand them more clearly. And if you struggle with stress, depression, or anxiety, keeping a journal can be a great idea. It can help you gain control of your emotions and improve your mental health.

Last year I shot a 35mm roll of JCH Streetpan 400 film and took it to be processed at Mike;s Camera and then all hell broke loose.

I don’t always have a specific goal or objective in mind when making an image, other than “I’d like to make a nice photo” but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. My friend Matt Staver is a talented, young photographer and once asked me “what was your objective in making that photograph?” but I didn’t have a good answer for him.

This year I got to see more bad movies than in any previous year. I’m not talking just about mediocre movies or films that did not live up to expectations but movies that I hated more than The Last Jedi. There were several movies I saw that many people and critics liked but I found that while they had a few good scenes ultimately they were not great or even good film —in my opinion.

In all of the writing that I have done for my books, magazine stories as well as this blog I’ve always tried to be honest with my readers with my opinions on the pros and cons of any of the cameras, lenses and even the film and photo labs that I used, tried and written about. It didn’t matter to me whether these approaches to photography were done for therapy (like this blog is mainly for me) or for publication because I feel that not doing so honestly would be doing my readers a disservice.

And so on a particular Saturday morning, I headed to the Parker, Colorado Cars & Coffee carrying my Panasonic Lumix G5 that was converted to Infrared by LifePixel and made the photographs you see here.