New Roll(s)/Shipping Updates (Patreon)

Hello! Here are two rolls of Kodak Gold on the Fujica from... I think June? For some reason I just forgot to put these out here until now. They're pretty solid; you can view them here on Flickr and Drive.

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For those of you that placed print orders, thank you immensely! I will have them shipped out sometime this week; all of my packing supplies have arrived so I just need to work through printing everything out and boxing them up. Thank you so much for your support; things have been a bit tricky lately because of how difficult it is to find work, and this helps my wife and I out a lot.

In personal news, I turned 30 recently, then hopped on a plane, because my friend was kind enough to gift me a vacation. I stayed in Glasgow (with a night in Edinburgh), and it was phenomenal. It's gorgeous there, the people were lovely, my friends I stayed with are absolutely delightful, and it was incredibly nice to experience a respite from the anxiety of being in the States.

I feel a little better about things after turning 30 and then not immediately dying of old age, although I really need to write or publish something big soon. I feel like I've let myself stagnate intensely this year as I've chased leads that went nowhere; it's been months since I had a big story, and my photography is progressing incredibly slowly. (I do have a ton of great work from Pride I'll be sharing soon, but the project that's for is probably still multiple years away.) I need to either write a novel or land a big piece or publish a zine or something, just for the feeling that I'm not entirely washed-up already.

I do have a relatively big story I am going to try and complete in the next few weeks and make one last shot at pitching it, but we'll see. I recognize that I'm probably just seeking dopamine that won't actually fix anything, but it does kind of suck to go from publishing a fairly large (for me) story once every month or two, to not really doing anything of note for six-ish months.

Anyway, just a couple notes on these photos:

I shot some of these at the top of Columbia Tower's observation deck, which was how I was able to get angles like this.

This is not taken with a wide-angle lens, this is actually a composite of two film shots on the GW690i... slightly cheating, but I think it's a pretty great shot.

Anyway, I'll have a lot more updates this week hopefully with some work from Pride and some shots from my vacation. Thanks again y'all!

Vicki <3