It has been a fantastic holiday season and a great start to the New Year for me. I was able to take some time off of work and spend some great time with my wife and kids. I need to figure out how to become independently wealthy so I can just hang out with my family. If anyone has that figured out let me know.

I have been able to use some of that time to catch up on some personal work that I have been shooting. I have been concentrating on what sort of images I can make that draw the view in that are also common, everyday places. I want to evoke a sense of wonder or "wow, were did you take this photo" in the viewer but the image may be something you could see every day but you just don't "see" it.

The image below is of the ground covered in oak leaves. In one day two oak trees dropped all of their leaves and blanketed the whole area with leaves. This image makes people think about shuffling through leaves when they were kids, or making piles of them to jump into. There is a sense of mystery in this photograph too. A little dark, a little "I wonder what is just beyond that tree". This image is of my front yard. A very ordinary suburban front yard like so many people see every day. But when you take the time to see things differently, then the ordinary becomes exciting again.