It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog, but I had to add to my year end review tradition. If I don’t do this, then 5 years from now I’ll have no idea what happened in 2018 ha!
I headed out west to spend some time being somewhat warm in February.
Sunset flight over Downtown Los Angeles.
I was able to take a couple of open door flights over Los Angeles with Flynyon then head to Las Vegas to party and I got to see the sunrise over the strip which was an incredible sight.
Sunrise behind the Stratosphere in Las Vegas.
After many years of missing it, I finally got a chance to attempt to shoot Manhattanhenge, where the sunset lines up perfectly with the grid of the streets in Manhattan. In classic Manhattanhenge tradition, it got all cloudy when the sun was hitting the horizon, so this was the best shot I ended up with. I will be giving this another shot again next year.
A view of 42nd St for Manhattanhenge.
I GOT TO MEET SHOOTER MCGAVIN! Anyone who’s a Happy Gilmore fan can appreciate this one.
Me and Shooter
One of my favorite highlights in 2018 was hopping around Scandinavia for a few weeks. This has easily become one of my favorite places in the world to travel to, especially in the summer since the days are sooooo long. I went to Sweeden, Finland, Denmark and Estonia. I haven’t written a blog on this trip yet but I will hopefully have one up soon!
A classic shot of Copenhagen, Denmark.
I was able to attend my first couple of Sony events in NYC this year. It was really fun to be able to check out some new gear, shoot photos of different things than I’m used to, and of course get a lot of free SWAG!
A model posing on a boat that Sony rented to ride around Manhattan.
A portrait of myself from the second NYC Sony event.
I did something this year that I wouldn’t have expected to do at all. I started a blading podcast with my buddy, Billy O’Neill, called Jump Street Podcast. We just wrapped up our first season last week and happy to say that we managed to get 2k subs on Youtube and 5k followers on Instagram. Really looking forward to where this brings us since we’re already kicking off season 2 live in the Neatherlands in February!
Live on the air for our season finale!
I ate an obscene amount of pizza from around the world. No complaints at all.
Featured pizzas are Buffalo Chicken from Staten Island, Pizza with hot Salami in Copenhagen, and half Quatro Formagio and half margarita from Manhattan.
This just got me really excited for 2019! I didn’t think a lot happened in 2018 until I wrote this blog. I guess this is part of the reason I do these every year since it helps you look back and reflect on where you are, where you’ve come from, and what you can take away from it.