2018.07.29 - Hanging Around the Haight

I went around my neighborhood in NoPa today and wandered around though Haight as well. There are so many iconic houses, so much lush greenery and unique architecture sprinkled all throughout this area. I brought along my camera, plug in my headphones and wandered aimlessly throughout the streets and neighborhoods. These are some of what I came across on my walk.

Lately I've been feeling a burst of creativity, I think it's because I am finally getting normal sleep and not working 12-15 hour days ad nauseam. I've been thinking more of how creative children are and how I think we lose that creativity as we get older and integrate into society. We are told what is possible, what an adult should be and what you should be doing.  As we age, we get put into boxes and put ourselves into certain molds, which is potentially unhealthy and self damaging. I think the most creative we are is when were a seven or eight year old kid and if you don't foster that creativity and imagination, you lose it every year you get older.

2018.07.16 - Fuji Film Superia 400

This is a role of film I recently got developed from the past few weeks. It's always pretty crazy how time can just fly right on by, that time is all relative. You can put your hand over a fire for a minute and have it feel like an hour. You can sit next to a pretty girl for an hour and have it feel like a minute. That's relativity. 

What I hope to do every time I try and take a picture on film, is to slow time down and really take in everything around me. Every day I have my attention pulled in a multitude of different directions, each one yearning for my immediate and undivided attention. Sometimes it's so relaxing and refreshing to slow everything down, take in everything that's around me and just pay attention. To hear the crisp ocean breeze whirling through the city, to notice how the sun is peaking through the top of a canopy, or to see other hidden gems around the city.

Weekly Update #1

So I'm trying to write at least blog post a week. I'll be documenting any trips that I have done, that I'm currently on or about to go on. If I have no trips in the works then you'll see what I've been up to in SF. I'll also periodically be putting up things that I think are super cool and get me stoked, hopefully they will get whoever is reading stoked as well.

Some bearded man who let me take his picture at the meet up in downtown SF. (Photo by: @nahogan)

This week was a personal creative breakthrough for me. I got a new camera, meet a lot of really interesting people at a meetup in downtown SF and have been honing my photo editing abilities. All of these events reignited a bit of my creative side. For the longest time, I felt I was in a bit of a creative rut. I wasn't sure what to post on here, what I wanted to say or what to photograph. Right now, I'm thinking of this as a place for friends and family to stay tuned for what I am up to and where I have been. I'm stoked to start sharing with everyone what I've been up to, what I've been creating and what gets me stoked.

Props if you made this far and stay tuned for more!

The Embarcadero (Photo by: @nahogan)

Insta meet at Lands End for sunset (Photo by: @nahogan)