Happy New Year!
Welcome to 2025!
Starting off the new year with something I don't do a lot of...people portraits. Animals I find to be much easier to work with, plus they never complain about how a photo turns out. :)
This portrait is in fact my younger brother Erik, who I got to see this past summer when he came for a visit. It is funny, but while he often is a year or two between visits when he is here it is like he was never gone and we are back to our usual brotherly antics automatically. I suspect a lot of brothers are that way though. Fortunately for the two of us it is usually harmless these days. It wasn't always thus. :)
In other news, I have just received the physical "all-clear" to resume my normal activities, so I should be back out and about with the cameras very soon. It has been a long 12 weeks of recovery and healing, but I am now almost 100% pain free for the first time in 8 years! Just occasional twinges now and then which I am told will likely pass in the next 9 months or so.
With new years come new opportunities, which themselves bring new hopes and new beginnings. I hope that for all of you those all come with new blessings as well. I am looking forward to sharing some more wonderful photos with you, and am grateful that you choose to make me a part of it!
Cheers!
Jonderson
