2016 → 2026
I started taking Instagram seriously in 2016.
Before that, photography wasn’t really my thing. I came from the film industry. Video was my world. Horizontal frames, motion, story.
Instagram forced me into something different. Portrait photos. Still moments. A completely different language.
At first it frustrated me.
And then there was the cost.
Every trip was out of my own pocket. Flights, hotels, cars… all to places
@aggie wanted to explore. We weren’t getting paid. Not even close.
But Aggie had a vision.
She believed if we treated travel like a business instead of a hobby, one day the trips wouldn’t cost us money. One day we’d be paid to go.
So I believed in her vision.
I poured everything I could afford into those early years.
While we were traveling more and more, my business back in Hollywood slowly disappeared. Clients assumed I was never around. By the time it was over, I had lost about 75% of them.
That’s the thing about chasing a dream.
Sometimes you have to watch the life you built fade while you build a new one.
2018 was the wildest year of all.
Aggie and I were only home for about 60 days the entire year, a lot of stress, and by the end of that year we separated.
Then 2019 arrived… and with it
@nicoleisaacs .
That year was magic. She reminded me that someone could see value in me again, at a time when I felt like I had lost so much.
A decade of places, risks, mistakes, love, heartbreak, and adventure.
And the last photo… 2026… is actually AI generated.
Maybe that’s fitting.
Because the future is still unwritten.
And if the last ten years taught me anything, it’s this:
You never really know where one decision to chase adventure might take you.
What year of your life changed everything?
#TravelPhotographer
#TravelStory
#LifeThroughPhotos
#AdventureLife
#ChasingDreams
