Finally, a blog that is unified with my business's homepage (kozelskyphoto.com)!  This is a very exciting moment for me, personally.  There may be some small adjustments here and there over the next month or so as I figure out what suits me best, but the web address will not change... this is the blog's new home.  I have imported the 2010 and 2011 archives, in case you feel that you need to go back and relive old times.  It was really interesting for me to go back and look at what I was working on a couple of years ago. I am thankful for having that record of my photographic journey through time.

Let's start the new blog with a few of my first pictures from this new year.  2012 is going to be a good one.  I can feel it. :)

These are photos from Bo's family's farm near Perry, Florida.

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The last bit of my 30-day film challenge happened when I was out in California, but I hadn't gotten the film back until yesterday.

Weird things seem to be happening with this film and camera... most things are not coming out as I expect them to at all, which makes for some interesting images.  On a number of the early-morning sunrise photos it looks like there were some shutter issues that blacked out portions of the images.  I'll have to do some research on curtains and film... I don't ever remember that happening in all the years I shot film before, but this is a different camera so who knows?

Anyway, enjoy the surprising weirdness :)

I spent the weekend prior to the Beloved Collective workshop in the Sequoia National Park.  The workshop was being held in in LA, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to experience a moment with the largest living things on the planet.  It was also the weekend of 9/11.  As I was wholly unprepared to revisit all that happened 10 years ago, a day alone in nature - away from everyone and everything else - seemed like the best way for me to get through the day.

I arrived late on Saturday night and found a nice little campground to spend the night in.  I got up early Sunday morning and headed straight into the heart of the park.  There is so much I  could say about the day... I made some notes about what I had experienced that day, which you'll see as the last of the photos.  I spent a lot of time soaking things in... it was so refreshing to have the time to just sit and absorb the world around me.  I had to leave early the next morning, but I did catch the sunrise over the mountains.  

There are a lot of photos here, so consider yourself warned ;)