Hello 2025

In my Review of 2024 I mentioned how burnt out I felt. The year had been rough both personally and business wise. Why would I want to do another year? I was reminded of how Lewis Hamilton’s final year at Mercedes Racing went. His 2nd to last race made him want to retire the car before the Grand Prix was over. It was that bad. He was done with 2024, but still had one final race to do. In that last race he drove phenomonly. He always says to keep pushing. That’s my plan, my theme for 2025. “Keep pushing.”

I would say easier said than done, but today it’s the reverse. I’m being tested for Long Covid due to random bouts of exhaustion. This morning I went for a 6k run, which was tough, but moments after finishing my energy levels crashed. Keeping my arms up to type is actually quite tiring. The simplest of things are quite challenging, both physically and mentally.

When possible, I’ll keep pushing. Before Christmas I did two 10k runs to remind myself that I can. I can keep pushing.

In other news, I’ve done a big roundup of how 2024 was for me from a business perspective. Charts and everything. It’s a big review of the various types of work I was commissioned to do and what I chose to do in my free time. Lots of interesting details about 2024. There’s also a highlights gallery of my favourite photos from 2024.

Over the holidays I made a big push to update my portfolio site and sort out a number of bugs. There’s lots of new content, restructuring and sorting. Don’t forget the print shop.

Lastly, I’ve created a newsletter called Wave which is going to be a simple monthly update on my photography. Think of it as a way to follow my photography work incase the enshitification of Instagram cranks up a notch.