A year ago, last September, I trekked down to Brooklyn to check out the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which I had somehow never been to despite more than five years in New York. We had a lot of space to ourselves as not too many people were there that afternoon, so it was nice and peaceful as we explored the gardens and greenhouses. There were still plenty of flowers and the leaves were only beginning to change colors, the day only a bit cooler than summer, but I’d really like to visit again when it’s fully fall, as well as during peak spring season. I brought along my film camera and finished up a roll of Portra 400 while we walked around.
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Phone Diary: Arizona & Utah
My best friend Shae and I went out to Arizona (and, unexpectedly, Utah) in early March, before the country went into lockdown. While I primarily shot film photos on this trip, I did take approximately a million photos, including a lot from my passenger seat of my aunt’s car as we drove through the stunning views. Here are some of those photos - my first ~phone diary~ in a few years.
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Battlefields
phone diary of an afternoon walk with my mom and brother at the end of 2018 — the battlefields near home, brisk and breezy air, cold winter sun setting on the fields.
Read MorePhone Diary: Spring Semester
Somehow, I've finished my junior year of college. That's really weird, and I'm not quite sure how I've already completed three years and only have one semester left... Highlights of the spring semester: seventeen shows (including a couple of my all-time favorite musicals), another semester at my internship, a slow emergence of spring weather, museum visits, and reading far more than I usually do during school.
Phone Diary: London + Paris
London is my absolute favorite place, and I've missed it so much since leaving after my semester abroad. Many of my friends were studying abroad this past semester, and Shae happened to be studying in London. I took advantage of that and less expensive plane tickets (thanks, Brexit, for lowering the value of the pound?) to go visit Shae in London over Thanksgiving. It was so wonderful to be back in London for six days, this time with Shae, and getting to do some of my favorite things while also doing some new things that I hadn't gotten to while I studied there. My trip was packed and fun, from wandering around Bloomsbury, Notting Hill, Kensington, and East London, to seeing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The Last Five Years, to enjoying London at the holidays. Plus, we also went to Paris for a day - roundtrip train trip, two museums, Shakespeare & Company, and many photo opportunities.
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