Hi, I'm Landon. This is my page, blog, thing. I take photos and I have big ideals that I attempt to match up to.

Withdrawing and Watching

A new year. New opportunities. New challenges to face. New experiences to live. New worries to carry. New burdens to accept. A new year, and all I feel is tired.

This election cycle, and the fruit it promises to bear in the coming years is a heavy weight. I'm watching the future erode and I'm paralyzed. I'm watching the promise of stability, and the ideals handed down for two hundred years crumble. Replaced by promises of retribution and the destruction of the status quo.

Add to this the simple but deeply important responsibility of being a father and trying to raise a little human in a world intent on falling into chaos.

I'm tired and breaking a bit. So, I'm stepping back and focusing on small this year. I'm going to take as much pride and time as I can in and with my little family. I will focus on being a good father and husband. I will delve deeper into Faith and Art. So this is the start of that. This site will be the place I showcase any and all of that (if it comes to fruition) but I'm not setting a hard line. There is no update schedule, and no timeline to deliver. 

2025 is going to be my soft year. As the world grows crueler I will live gentler. That's a good enough resolution for anyone.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading.

Pittsburgh: A Riverfront Walk

Continuing in August our final stop was the city of Pittsburgh.

I'll admit. I was not excited about visiting this city. There was something unpleasant about the thought of Pittsburgh. Some thought had entered into my mind that this was going to be a dirty, grimy city, and I'm sure there are dirty parts, but I was quickly taken in by the grandeur of it's riverfront views.

All of these photos were taken with an Olympus E-M1 Mk II or my phone and edited to taste in Adobe Photoshop Express.

I expected a rust-belt city. Filled with crumbling infrastructure and abandoned businesses. Instead I found a vibrant, walkable stretch, filled with beauty.

I would have loved to explore the whole thing, but it left me wanting more.

The whole experience shifted my perspective, and reminded me to keep an open mind for everything. That's all for now. Thanks for reading.

New York in August

Well this is new. And I'm not quite sure what to do with this space, but for the inaugural post. Here's some photos from NYC in August of 2024.

All of these photos were taken with an Olympus E-M1 Mk. II and all of them were edited to taste in Adobe Photoshop Express.

This was all for a work trip throughout the New England states, ending with New Jersey.

With a little time to spare, we decided to cross the Hudson and check in on the only true city in the U.S.

New York is unlike any other city I've visited, and whatever I say about it has been more eloquently said somewhere else, I'm sure. But I've been to most major metropolitan areas within the contiguous U.S. at this point, and NOTHING compares to NYC

I can't wait till I go back.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading.