As the year closes, please accept my deeply felt THANK YOU to everyone who has taken time to look at my photos. Last year, I learned to invite myself into others' creative spaces. This year, I enjoyed the relationships time has grown (looking at you Flagstaff Aerial Arts and Theatrikos). I treasure that Flagstaff is teeming with creativity, always something new putting up green shoots (Pinestories, Gambel Oaks Reading Series -- I hope to take pictures of you in 2016!). I learned a ton about editing this year, mostly through many, many hours of trial, error, and discovery. I still have a ton to learn. In this last month of the year, I reached a turning point where I made my own preset (a saved collection of editing choices you can apply with a click to future photos). I have a feeling many photographers might find it odd that it's taken me a year to make a single preset. But to me, a preset says, "I know I want most every picture to have these nuances," and I was obstinate about making that commitment -- like being obstinate about not using a calculator before feeling confident doing math step-by-step on paper. To have now made this part of my workflow tells me I have a level of confidence and self-knowledge about "my look". My biggest creative influence continues to be Pedro Almodovar. I'm just starting to glimpse the idea that my camera, though optically sophisticated, is not capturing exactly what the eye sees, but instead is affecting the meaning in my photos with its specific way of seeing, whereas until recently I'd considered it a photojournalistic capturer of realism. Now I'm starting to ponder using different cameras' different technical qualities to affect a photo's feeling. This last collection of 2015 photos are out-of-the-norm for me, being almost all people-free and somewhat impressionistic, taken here and there throughout the year.