{"id":50700,"date":"2018-12-30T19:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T00:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattsteffen.com\/?p=50700"},"modified":"2019-02-05T20:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T01:57:35","slug":"2018-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattsteffen.com\/2018-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 year in review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will someone please slow this thing down.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what I think is supposed to happen, as if my trajectory will suddenly skew and something will take over my attention. But here I am again, looking back at a year of CWW – Concerts, Woods, Wander. It’s clearly what I like doing most.<\/p>\n

This year we made it to Lake Michigan and Detroit, several weekends filled with discoveries along the back roads of the Midwest, and the customary hiking trips of central Kentucky. I got to study with Cincinnati royalty Michael Wilson<\/a>. I was invited to hang a bunch of my work with the Forealism Tribe<\/a> in The Carnegie<\/a>‘s Galleries as part of the Fotofocus Biennial<\/a>. Keith Klenowski<\/a> was kind enough to sit and chat while I proved there’s a learning curve to portraiture (proof in Issue 04 of Polly Magazine<\/a>). I continued my path down the photographic rabbit hole of stretching, chopping, and recomposing time and space.<\/p>\n

And on a sad note, I found that I have shot the final Whispering Beard<\/a> of the Friendship years. The people who organize this amazing festival are simply some of the best people, I have no doubt it will move on and grow and change and settle into a whole new thing that every August I count the days down to. But for now, I’m full of memories and a little sad to see it go. It makes the photo I took backstage, when everyone was on the other side, jumping and hollering to Saturday night’s send off with The Tillers, that much more meaningful. I hope to still find those fleeting, quiet moments when you catch yourself alone in a crowd and so full of ease you can’t help but smile.<\/p>\n

Here are a handful I hope do this year justice:<\/p>\n\t\t\t