I’ve been trying to write this blog post for four months! Tonight I decided, I’m gonna write this blog post if it’s the last thing I do! I started brainstorming different ways to make this lovely little hike at Ridley Park existentially relevant–“not all who wander are lost,” “explore and embrace the unknown,” yadda yadda–but every lead ended in despair–“I am so fucking lost,” “what the fuck is going on,” yadda yadda. (Welp, there goes my mental health.) I got a headache and started feeling pissed off. I just want to show off my photos because I love the light and find it interesting how the three portraits turned out so differently even though they were all taken on the same hike within five minutes!! Why this gotta be so hard??

Every time I passed by these stumps on my way to class, I always wanted to do a photoshoot there. During the last month of college, I finally got around to it. I texted some friends to ask if they would be interested in shooting with me, met up ten minutes before class, lived out our dreams of becoming carefree woodland people, and then ran to make it to class on time.

Earlier this year, one of my blogging goals was to do a photoshoot a month, and I did pretty well keeping up with it during the first half of the year (spring semester of junior year). However, I stopped doing photoshoots over the summer because I wasn’t seeing very many people, and the people I was seeing, I wanted to spend quality time with and not shoot photos. Coming back to school for senior year, I haven’t been picking up my camera very often, but I’ve been creative in other ways, thanks to the intro design class that I’m taking.