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I am currently working on finishing the Studio Sessions: Collaborations with Dancers book. Over the next few months I will be editing images and taking input from dancers on which images are a good fit for the layouts. I hope to print in mid to late April.

When I’m not glued to a monitor editing photos I am continuing to work shooting commercially, editorially and on a small number of new Studio Sessions with Dancers as well as independent portrait collaborations with local artists. I’m keeping busy, very busy. It’s nice.

In mid spring I will be working with my father on editing images for a book project he’s been working on for a couple of years now. I spent nearly a month in Finland shooting for this project and I expect we’ll be doing more shooting to round out the images as he continues writing. Exciting. Plus, the first round of shooting was done in miserable weather and I’d love to get a chance to shoot again when it’s not pouring down rain and isn’t hideously windy.

Late in the summer I’m planning on a long solo roadtrip. I’d like to base the trip from my sister’s place in Atlanta. I have not spent much time exploring the South. None really, and the time seems right for this kind of trip. Of course I won’t mind the trip from Eugene to Atlanta either. I’m a driver. I LOVE driving. I can live out of the back of my GTI for weeks on end. There’s nothing like the wide-open north american roads. There’s a spiritual clarity to being on a lonely road. Every direction is a commitment. Every hour is something new. The same road looks different at different times of the year. Different times of the day. Different directions. Sometimes it’s all a blur and sometimes you can’t drive slowly enough to soak it all in. Sometimes the car just has to stop and stand on the roof and stare into the sunrise. It’s life on my terms.

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