Thanksgiving reflections and prioritizing owed photography!

Hey, Steemit! Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the US. I’m recovering from the food and friendship. It was a great holiday. For the second year, @vermillionfox and I hosted a Friendsgiving with some of the @caffetto usuals. We had turkey, corn, brussel sprouts […which @tarotbyfergus hasn’t had until last night], homemade cranberry sauce, potatoes and desserts. I was going to photograph the spread, but we destroyed it before I could get the camera. Afterwards, we all played games on the PS4 and battled in to the late night hours over dozens of games of Magic: The Gathering. The party went on until almost 2:00a.m. What a great night.

I’m going to get to the photography, but wanted to comment again on what’s happening in the market; more inmportantly, here on Steemit. I had a brief exchange with @anomadsoul through comments a couple of weeks ago. That was when STEEM was struggling to stay above $1. We both acknowledged that the mainstays will remember who was here, staying active when the price was low. My feed is pretty slow right now, but the Steemians I follow are continuing to demonstrate while they’ll always have my attention and votes. This low isn’t going to last forever. The foundational authors of Steemit will be rewarded for holding the line.

As one of those authors, I do have some new photography to share. I just got back from LA. I’m feeling the early pressure for the 6.000 new photos I just took over 13 shoots in one week. I’m excited to look through them, make some editing marks on what I’ll be starting first, but before I can, I have clients that’ve been patiently waiting for the last of photos owed. Tonight, I finished two of those clients and it’s such a relief to put a strike through their name on the list of who needs to be wrapped up before moving on. These photos are of Kristy. I’ve shared work with her previously.

Kristy is a Minnesota native, albeit, from up north. She’s a pinup and vintage enthusiast, and last minute, @mada was willing to let us shoot at his home when my original location fell through. @mada’s place is awesome. Huge windows, old furniture, all original wood, textured drapery. It’s a photographer’s dream. Maybe more for me than most because of my style of available light. I’ve been getting edits back to Kristy as I finished them, but tonight, I was finally able to send along these last few and close out what I still owed.

Thanks for reading. The next few days, this’ll be my goal. Getting the remaining edits to a couple more clients from Viva Las Vegas and the trip I took to LA and Vegas in August. No more travel for the remainder of 2018, which I’m so happy to say out loud. I had fun in LA this past week, but as most of you know, I long to stay home drawing comics with @ghostfish on my new iPad Pro, seeing my friends and family. For more photography, art, illustration and the stories behind the work, follow me here @kommienezuspadt!