Is a blog really a blog without some meaningful words? Maybe, maybe not. I’m not the best at reading, so if you’re like me and prefer to skip straight to the part with the pictures, click here. There is also a much longer version of these existential ruminations on my primary blog and design website. If you’re bored or if you’re my mom, you may read that here.
2021. The year that was supposed to save us from 2020 and let us finally move forward. When a baby seal appeared on a jetty a few blocks away from me in Long Beach on January 2nd, I thought it might be a sign that things were looking up. A few days later, I turned on the news and realized that wasn’t going to be the case. Between coping with the ongoing political divide, the frequent alarming events, and still trying to process the emotional traumas that 2020 left us with, it was all too much. A lot of awful things happened this year for the world and in my own personal life, in spite of the hope we all had for our collective salvation. Although when I began to look at the glass as half-full, (no camera-lens-pun intended) I remembered a lot of the wonderful things that happened and how much better they actually seemed because of everything 2020 took from us.
Gathering the takeaways from a full year that fast-forwarded by, in year 2 of a global pandemic, requires the perfect balance of perspective and focus. These camera puns, of course, were fully intended, inevitable, and perfectly applicable to both life and photography. I spent a few days browsing through all of my photos from 2021 and realized that life had been in color the whole time, even during months where everything felt monochromatic. (I would have said black and white, but I just love black and white photos too much to use it as a negative metaphor.) Each folder filled with raw photos and exported edited images was actually proof that life went on and the beauty of nature prevailed every day.
I’d like to thank all of my new and repeat clients, anyone who purchased prints from my print shop, and everyone who comments on the photos I share. Thank you for continuing to support this passion of mine, motivating me to keep going, and for and joining me on this unpredictable rollercoaster ride.
Here are some of my favorite moments of 2021 in photographs:
January 2nd, 2021 – The Long Beach baby seal
January 12th, 2021
January 13th, 2021 – Product Shoot for Sapphire Essentials with Jillian’s Circus
January 20th, 2021 –
Who knew that the wind causing American flags to fly backwards on inauguration day could make a photo so controversial?
February 20th, 2021 – Maggie
March 19th, 2021 – Boardwalkhenge
March 20th, 2021 – Max & Cyndi
April 1, 2021 – Lifestyle Shoot for Mindset Editor with Jillian’s Circus
April 10th, 2021 – Jon & Gordon
April 18th, 2021 – Alba’s Wish with Wish of a Lifetime
April 26th, 2021 – Full Supermoon in Scorpio
May 2nd, 2021 – O’Shea Family
May 4th, 2021 – Lifestyle Shoot for Dr Teigerman with Jillian’s Circus
May 28th, 2021 – Rich & Corinne Surprise Proposal
June 14th, 2021 – Dad @ Broadway Comedy Club
June 14th, 2021 – Mona’s Wish with Wish of a Lifetime
June 22nd, 2021
July 8th, 2021
August 3rd, 2021 – Lifestyle Shoot for Hero’s Liquor with Jillian’s Circus
August 12th, 2021 –
Queens Surprise Proposal with a terrifying storm followed by an epic double rainbow
August 28th, 2021 – Buddy Mercury 2022 Calendar Shoot
August 31st, 2021 – Lifestyle Shoot for Karpos CPA with Jillian’s Circus
September 3rd, 2021 – Emma’s 1st Birthday
September 13th, 2021
September 18th, 2021 – Fire Island
September 30th, 2021
October 9th, 2021 – Kanterman Family
October 20th, 2021 – Full Hunter’s Moon
November 4th, 2021
November 6th, 2021 – Cortlandt, NY
November 14th, 2021 – Bergman Family
November 22nd, 2021 – Lifestyle Shoot for Metriz Jewelry with Jillian’s Circus
December 3rd, 2021
December 5th, 2021 – John & Chelsea Surprise Proposal
December 16th, 2021