the horseshoe motel (2022) (Patreon)

Back to the archives today, with a shot I took back when I prowled the streets of Reno looking for interesting photos. I miss doing this a lot; I maintain that night photography is actually probably one of my few genuine strengths as a photographer, and it's become a virtual impossibility out here in Idaho. Walking around Reno at night was sometimes a little rough, but I never found it unmanageable.  Here, though, people are itchy-trigger-fingered and paranoid in the daytime, but at night it's legitimately almost gotten me killed while out shooting photos, and I've basically quit as a result. 

I'm excited to be back in Seattle because I already know where I'm going to go. I already know the kit I'm going to take. I already know the shots and where in the street I will stand for them. I have been there so many times I've visualized the shots, but it's always so brief I never get to actually do the photowalks I want to take, and if I am there longer—like, as a resident—I think it will be incredibly rewarding, especially since I will get to indulge my night photography skills again.