On our way to Lake Powell! We will be filming an episode with @lakepowellguideservices and targeting the stripper spawn! These pictures were taken by @efrostee who will also be joining us! Thank you @versaspear for getting a group of divers together!
Wednesday in the Twin Cities. Protests in North Minneapolis after a man was shot in the leg while being detained by ICE. A school walkout to the Capitol in St. Paul. And a mother who has had to radically alter the life of her and her daughter under the fear of immigration detention. Second two stories for @npr #minneapolis #minnesota #ice #photojournalism
From a morning with @benjovland chasing a Border Patrol convoy through Minneapolis and into Brooklyn Center. In the two encounters we witnessed no one was arrested, but two Somali men on their way to work were removed from their car and placed into the back of BP vehicles before being released. We followed the the convoy for almost three hours as they weaved in and out of neighborhoods and parking lots before eventually deciding to check the identification of everyone at a Tesla charging station in a Hyvee parking lot.
Actually it’s not my first time taking out the trash, looking up, and saying “holy sh*t” before jumping in my car and driving to the darkest place I can find. Luck has it that the roof of my CRV can hold me and a camera and the northern lights came south. Classic New Mexico. Shout out to mom for tip, my head would have been in homework instead.
#auroraborealis #newmexicotrue #stars
As the weather starts to cool down here, my daydreams have been even more filled with warm, salty water and swimming between walls of rocks and reefs. Hopefully this winter can also bring some ocean time.
#baja #seaturtle #freedive #freedivephotography #underwater
Made a quick trip out to the Blue Hole and Perch Lake in Santa Rosa with @soloway100 yesterday. Due to unforeseen circumstances the spears didn’t make it past the dock. We did get to save a snagged catfish, so maybe we’ll have better luck next time.
Made a quick jaunt up the mountain yesterday for some leaf peeping. I didn’t mean to stay up long enough for blue hour, but can’t be mad that I did.
#santafe #newmexicotrue #leafpeeping #fall
32 today. (Long reflective caption incoming)
So far my 30’s have challenged me. Both in ways that I could anticipate in moving across the country and diving into a new career in medicine and crisis intervention, and in ways that have pushed me to places I didn’t know existed. Despite all the ways that the world appears to be (and is) falling apart around us, I woke up this morning feeling more assured about my path forward than I ever have.
Some people have said that this is what this season of life brings. That could be true, but more than anything the last few years has brought me my people. A community I have loved, and new people to love right when I seem to need them. These people, who cannot be contained to 20 photos, have steadily reminded me what life is really about, and reminded me of my own capabilities when I cannot see them— which has been essential as I’ve finally sought real treatment for the depression that has been with me since childhood.
This spring, I’ll start nursing school. Until and during school I’ll keep working with our unhoused neighbors, trying to keep people safe, healthy and alive even as our government tears away resources and finds new ways to criminalize our most vulnerable. And personally trying to visibly affect positive change in a way that I know many people doing photojournalism crave.
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