So what do I want to accomplish in 2025?
Events I want to shoot this year:
- Conneaut Ohio Reenactment
- Lauer Farms Reenactment
- Motor City ComicCon
- Michigan Renaissance Festival
- Tilson Street Halloween
- Jackson Civil War Reenactment
- Detroit Auto Show
- Grand Rapids ComicCon
- Howell Balloon Fest
- An airshow (maybe EAA, maybe one more local)
- Use my star tracker to shoot some astrophotography
- Chesterfield Vietnam Reenactment (if it’s still going on)
- Attend at least one car show and photograph it.
- Go on more group shoots with the camera club.
- Collaborate with at least one person on a project
- Canterbury Renaissance Festival
- Sell one picture. Just one would be amazing.
- Get a good portrait of each of my dogs (way more difficult then you would expect)
- Get a good shot of my bottle of Bluesky Bourbon
- Shoot at Romeo Lavender Farm
- Shoot the Dequindre Cut
- Shoot 3 rolls of film
- Shoot the Ohio State Reformatory
- Shoot the Michigan Nordic Fire Festival
- Shoot the USS Edison in Bay City, Michigan
- Shoot the abandoned gas station on the way to the USS Edison
- River of time festival in bay city Michigan
- Stoney Creek Metropark did a medieval festival – go shoot that
- Lansing Zombie Walk
- Shoot a meteor shower
- Shoot the Great Horned Owl Nest at Lake St. Clair Metro Park
- Do a shoot with each of my firearms
- Take a workshop – one focused on posing and lighting.
It’s a big list, but I think most of it is doable. Not sure these are really resolutions so much as just a list of events I want to go to.