woke up this morning (or, Nevada) (2022) (Patreon)

It will never not be funny to me that I bought a van and headed West after blowing up my previous relationship and career and life and ended up in Reno, and then I read Imogen Binnie's Nevada. 

In that book, a messed-up trans woman kinda steals her ex's car and drives to Reno and meets a kid and it's fucked up and sad and it's just deeply ironic that I read it once I'd already also kind of landed in Reno. I took much better photos overall in the city but this is the one I always associate with it, tbh, because it's the shot I took as my farewell to the city. I visited once this year; I'd like to go back again and shoot more (and see my friends), but I just haven't had a chance.

For what it's worth, this is one of the hardest shots technically to achieve I've ever taken, considering it was dark out, I had a terrible old 300mm lens that isn't sharp at all wide-open, and I was on a cold windy mountaintop, and I still decided to try and pan the shot a little. I would never print this larger than like 8x10 because it's so high-noise but it is extremely cool so I figured it was worth the post