Looking forward

Looking back on 2012, it was a year full of variety on Rekelekt. Photos, poetry, renting a studio, playing guitar, trying to stop bullets with a laptop, planning for the end of the world, and of course more wacky dreams than anyone wants to hear about. I'm still getting the hang of blogging and I imagine there will still be gaps here and there in 2013, but I plan to post more.

I'm really looking forward to 2013 and I hope to accomplish a lot this year. My resolutions for this year include building my photography business, writing more, and procrastinating less. That last one I keep putting off each year, so we'll see how it works out this time!

Studio

This week has been full of surprises, one of them being the chance to rent out a studio so that I can shoot photos somewhere other than my living room. No sooner did I rent the building, then I immediately had a shoot lined up for it! Very exciting, but very tiring, too. The building had been a studio previously, but recently was used for storage. I had to help move out lots of appliances and shop equipment, then clean the place before I could begin getting set up in it. It was a lot of work, much like moving.

As you can see, it's a fairly humble building, but it's a start. Even though the studio is in Iowa City, it's off the beaten path and sits back on a large wooded acreage. The scenery is nice, though. It has a gravel drive and gravel parking and the building has heat, A/C, and internet. You wouldn't just stumble across it and when you pull in, it looks like a place where some cult might gather to wait for their comet. Or it could be an Al Qaeda training camp. Any militant would be pleased to train here.

At any rate, it's a great place for cult members, militants, and photographers and I'm happy to be here!