Thank you, 2025. You were a year thick with moments, the kind that sneak up on you, linger longer than expected, and leave a mark.

I started the year with no real sense of where I would end up. Somehow that turned into adventures I could not have planned, people I am genuinely grateful to know, and photographs that feel like small acts of preservation. Proof that I was here and paying attention.

To everyone who shared space with me this year, in big ways or quiet ones, thank you. You made the year richer, stranger, and better than it had any right to be.

As I look toward 2026, I have learned enough to admit I do not know what is coming, and that is not a flaw. It is part of the deal. All I can promise is to try to do a little better than last year. To keep making images that matter. To spend more time with good people. To live in a way that future me can look back on and say it was worth it.

Happy New Year. Thank you for the memories, 2025. Let us see what is next.

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