We were supposed to be doing trail work, but three days of straight rain left us nothing to do but eat and talk about said rain
Footage from "working" on the @transcaucasiantrail a few summers ago 🇬🇪 :-)
One of my favorite pics of two of my favorite lads in one of my favorite places, that's a lot of superlatives!
Give these two Kovacs a round of applause cause both of these scorpio kings got a year older this week 🫶
It's about time for a shenanigan highlight reel yeah? 🤔
Had the time of my life this summer in one of my favorite places on earth, and I'm so grateful for all the splendid folk I got to share that time with 🫶
And thanks to the @transcaucasiantrail for motivating me to get back out there
I love this boy, Ezra
He can spend entire days walking around making noises and finding any string-like object around the house to entertain himself, (almost) always with the purest smile on his face. I could watch him do this for hours, days, weeks on end.
It is no surprise then, that he has the most loving and most patient parents to raise him and protect him.
I love them too 💖
Been wanting to share these photos for like two years now, and I'm finally able to now that the show is out (on Apple TV+)! I did some production coordinating and BTS photography for an episode of Prehistoric Planet season 2 waaaay back in March 2021. Got to work with some real class acts with the BBC Natural History Unit and some of my own kin from the @macfreefilms days.
It was very much a full circle moment for me, as just two years prior during the same week of the year, I was driving out west to the same part of the country to shoot my thesis project in equally as pleasant shooting conditions. Definitely didn't expect the next time I'd be shooting out here would be with the BBC, let alone for a show about dinosaurs?
A little Nepalese dispatch from last month, from a safari deep in Chitwan National Park
1) A Man of Intense Focus - a safari driver rips it through turbulent terrain, sternly
2) Two Sides of the Same Road - controlled burns on one side of the road to rid the jungle floor of dry fire fuels. Good riddance!
I'm doing fine, I think! It hits differently some days, but every day there is something. Mother's Day, as beautiful a day as it is for so many, is naturally a tough reminder of what is missing.
But that's only the very surface. This time of year I see a feed full of warmth and appreciation for irreplaceable motherly love, yet I'm reminded of how good I had it, and how good I still have it through the other types of irreplaceable love I have in my life through my family and friends. I'm grateful to all those people who have given me the space to feel whatever I need to feel as it comes. Letting myself feel grief when it hits has been one of the hardest but most gratifying parts of the last year or so.
This quote from Call Me By Your Name rings it home: "To feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste! ...Right now there's sorrow, pain. Don't kill it and with it the joy you felt."
Translation: it's okay to feel shit baby! (and also show your people some appreciation)
⚠️ GAMER POST ALERT ⚠️
Idk if you guys remember anything from the pandemic, but I have one distinct memory from mid-2021 when I discovered that I had spent over seven days playing this game DayZ since I first played it just a few months earlier.
That was a little unsettling at first, but during a time when it was otherwise unreasonable to venture out to see different parts of the world, it felt nice to know I had still found a way to spend a week or so in this fictional eastern European country of Chernarus with some of my best friends. In a lot of ways, this game catalyzed my interest in that part of the world.
These are some screenshots from my various trips to Chernarus over the last few years - recounting perilous cross-country journeys, tragic loss at the hands of bloodthirsty evildoers, countless bouts of cholera, and all the moments of solitude in between (we have fun, I promise)
