Since I’m in the mood to post a bunch of 2010 related things and this was pretty much the year of photography for me, I decided to go through my photos from this year and pick out some of my favorites. I didn’t try to narrow down to my top ten, but I did filter out the erotic shots that I’ve taken but still haven’t done anything with.
You may notice that I need to find more “models,” that’s going to be a goal for 2011, I think.
Since I normally do a year review type thing, I guess I’ll squeeze one in now while there’s still time before 2011 hits. 2010 was a very interesting year for me. There were ups and downs all over the place. I’m going to keep this one short though.
I started off the year with a pretty big bang, I got engaged…in Disney World…in Cinderella’s Castle. It was awesome. It was such a nerve-wracking experience, but I’m so excited to be planning a wedding with my amazing fiancée and knowing that we’re going to spend the rest of our lives together.
2010 was the year that I ran my first half marathon and really started to become a runner instead of just being someone that likes to run. Over the course of the year, I became a much stronger runner and it became something that’s a part of me. I set new personal records for myself at every distance I ran and even became a minimalist runner and got a pair of Vibram Five Fingers.
Over the past year, I immersed myself in a new hobby. I spent hours and hours taking photos and reading about photography, I think my camera is about to hit 10,000 shots on it in the next few days. Not bad! I’m excited about my growth as a photographer and I will probably spend as much, if not more, time taking photos in 2011.
In 2010, I ended my radio show, The Playlist, which I had hosted for seven years on 90.3 The Core. It wasn’t my first show on the station, but it was one of the longest running shows ever on the station. Ending my show was the final piece to putting my life at 90.3 The Core behind me and moving on.
As I mentioned, there also downs this year. I’m going to keep negatives mostly out of this , but unfortunately 2010 wasn’t a great year for my family in the health department. I won’t go into the details, but my last remaining grandparent, my grandmother on my mother’s side, passed away after a two and a half month roller coaster ride in the hospital. That’s all I’m going to say about that, but it hasn’t been an easy month.
Lastly, 2010 was the year that I moved out of Highland Park after living there for the last five years. My fiancée and I got a wonderful townhouse in Somerset, NJ, just a few minutes from where we lived in Highland Park. After two months here, we’re very happy with it and haven’t really looked back.
So those were the major highlights of 2010. Many, many other things happened (I missed Halloween), but I said that I would try to keep this short. With less than seven hours to go in 2010, I think I’ve had a pretty full year, but I’m really looking forward to 2011. 2011 will be the year I get married and…I have no idea what else, but we’re starting it off with another trip to Disney World which will include a run in the Disney Half Marathon. Woo!
First of all, I don’t get why everyone is hating on 2009 so much. I feel like people do this every year. One year ends and everyone hates on it saying it was terrible. But it’s the same routine every year. Maybe you have your reasons, but I bet some good shit happened to you too. Sure, a lot of celebrities died in 2009. A lot. But, you know what? You don’t know those people! Yes, it’s terrible for them and their families and friends and some of them probably brought some joy into your life through their work, but still, you don’t know them personally so don’t let that make you feel like it was a bad year. You know, if that’s your reason–hey! I’ve heard it! But that’s besides the point. Maybe that’s not your reason for hating 2009, maybe you’ve got some good personal reason and that’s fine. Maybe the recession hit you or your family hard. Fair enough. I’ll give you that, but I know one guy who would say that being laid off right in the beginning of the year was the best thing that’s ever happened to him. Anyway, the fact seems to be that people tend to hate on every year. A year ago, I was sick of everyone calling 2008 “tw0-thousand hate.” Now, I’m sick of everyone saying that 2010 better be better than 2009. People like to focus on the negative things.
I’m sure that if you think about it, there were plenty of good things that happened to you or that you did in 2009. I took up snowboarding, went sky diving for the first time, went to Paris and London, went to Chicago again, started dating the girl of my dreams, got more serious about running, spent and awesome weekend in New Hampshire with some great friends, saw a ton of great movies. The list goes on and on, but I’ll stop. There were some bad things that happened too–my dog dying being at the top of the list–and ultimately, the thing I wanted to do most in 2009 didn’t happen, but fuck it, why worry about that stuff if you don’t have to? And it’s funny, while I was going and grabbing those links back there–I had to sort through almost 200 posts from 2009–I realized that there was even more great stuff in 2009 that I had forgotten about. Hell, I went on a first date on Valentine’s Day only to never go on another date with the girl again. I totally had forgotten about that and that’s great story potential right there!
But anyway, this post is about 2010, right? Right. I think this is going to be a great year too. I hope so, at least. I’ve got some little goals. I’m going to be running my first half marathon, I’m going to Disney, I’m hoping to make good on my plan to one day move to Chicago, and I’m taking up photography. For Christmas, I got a beautiful Canon EOS t1i digital SLR. I don’t really know how to use it very well yet. I mean, I know what most of the buttons do and all that, but just getting my pictures to look decent is going to take a while. I’m really excited about it though. I’ve wanted to get a nice camera for years and years, but I was always afraid that I’d never use it because I wouldn’t want to carry the thing around all the time. Well, I got a over that. I take thousands and thousands of pictures on my little point-and-shoot, a Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS, and it’s great, but it definitely feels lacking. It will still get a ton of use, but there are plenty of times where I know ahead of time that I’m going to want to take some really nice photos. And those will be the times that I have my SLR with me. What I’m getting at here with the photography thing is that if all goes the way that I hope it does, I’ll have a lot of great pictures to post here. And post I will! I’m going to try to post more of other stuff as well this year, but we’ll see.
But for now, here are pretty much the best shots I’ve take so far with my camera. They’re all of my cat, but she makes for a great subject and the past couple of days have been way too cold and windy to go outside. Obviously, you can click them for larger versions.
Alright, so let’s go 2010! Woooo!
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