I think this picture kind of sums up 2016. I haven’t spent much time reflecting back, only looking forward. Defining how I will shape 2017 and what I hope to achieve from it. My personal New Year’s Resolutions for 2017 I’m making public here to have a place I can come back to and remind myself of the goals. And you know, if you say it out load you’re more likely to accomplish it.

 

Above self-portrait inspired by Milio BURQUIN’s painting, La buveuse d’absinthe taken in my home in France in Rouje shirt with a traditional French Pastis in hand.

 

1. Put stronger ideas, meaning and emotion into my photographs.
2. Take fewer photographs to make more impactful ones.
3. Study the light of Provence. Break it down into a scientific equation.
4. Add the passage of time into my photographs through movements like in a symphony.
5. Shoot more 4×5 film
6. Make photographs more like paintings.
7. Get a dog. IT’S TIME.
8. Build a darkroom.
9. Move to California.
10. Work on empathy.
11. Define the purpose of my photographs.
12. Define myself and style as a photographer and apply it to everything, not just my personal work.
13. Make commitments.
14. Set new professional goals.
15. Create one photography tutorial a week on social media to share my knowledge and continue to build a community over our shared passion.
16. Create one film noir short on social media based around a 24 hour story once a week.
17. Shoot more ballerinas.
18. Shoot more flowers.
19. Stop wasting. Wasting food, wasting money, wasting products.
20. Live with less.
21. Shoot more for others.
22. Make a home.
23. Save money for real vacations, not work vacations.
24. Finish the new photography portfolio site.
25. Finish the Cinemagraphs site.
26. Create Cinemagraphs for art, not commerce.
27. Do something good for my body’s health everyday through physical activity.
28. Stop drinking all together.  Drink less
29. Find a way to create more romanticism in my work.
30. Build the world I want to live in, not the one others want for me.
31. Learn to be more comfortable sharing my life.

“If to live is to express the emotions of life, then to create art is to express the life of emotions.” -Edward Weston, Group f.64