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IVF - Day In The Life

More China pictures coming soon, but in the meantime, here is one short day in the life of an IVF treatment. It’s not fun. But photography and breakfast sandwiches are a great way to cope with the discomfort. If your looking at these images and recognize the room with the dvd player, I hope it gives you a laugh. Oh I also had stitches in my eyelid due to a cyst being removed. Enjoy!

Day 1 - Shanghai

Due to a random string of events, Lin and I find ourselves in Shanghai for a month.

Dumpling Breakfast

Whenever there is backlit steam, I always gotta break out the camera :)

Morning Light

A nice little light show before breakfast.

Morning Routines

If there was a such thing as a “perfect writing routine”…it would involve the 7am sun pouring through my living room window, a hot cup of coffee, a La Croix, and a 2 hour stretch devoted to nothing but writing…

..and around 9am, Lin would appear with her laptop, patiently indulging me as I photographed her…appreciating both her beauty and the challenge of working with hard front light without letting my own shadow interrupt it.

Enjoying The Snow

One of the most peaceful ways to begin a day is stepping out early while snow is falling. In Maryland, it only happens a few times a year, which makes it feel even more sacred. Anytime the forecast hints at snow, I’ll set my alarm a little earlier and peek through the window, hoping. This morning, it delivered.

Not long after getting home, I woke Lin, made us some coffee, and coaxed her out onto the porch with me…to brave the cold and take in the beauty of the snowfall together.

Morning Light Study

Every morning, somewhere between 6:30 and 7am, the sun slips through the blinds. Most of these photos look nearly the same at first glance, but I’m drawn to the differences; the way the light reflects, bounces, changes colors, softens, hardens, and eventually gives itself back to shadow.

Baltimore Filmmakers Meetup

About three years ago, I was seeking some local filmmaking community in Baltimore so I invited a few friends (and their friends) to a brewery. The simple “no agenda” meetup has evolved into what is now @baltimorefilmmakers which is co-led by my friends Franki, Mei, and myself. We’ve recently partnered with Wide Angle Youth Media and continue to do monthly meetups. These are just a handful of pictures from our most recent meetup.

Snow Day

There is no better feeling then looking out the window right after waking up and seeing snow falling.

Finishing My Documentary

Spent the afternoon making the FINAL(!) dcp & surround sound mix with Matt Riggieri (who also graded “The Baltimorons”). IT’S FINISHED!

New York City

Spent two nights in NYC for a Nourish Community meetup and a men’s health podcast that I was invited to be a part of.

My Favorite Coffee

Baltimore Coffee & Tea Co. is my favorite coffeeshop in the area. I’m a big fan of flavored coffee’s and they have 6x flavors on tap. So I’ll usually take a book and a journal and just hang out for 2 hours and drink, read, and write.

Basement Treads

Lin teaches yoga a couple days a week in our basement, so we thought it would be a good idea to make the stairs a bit more safe. Problem solved. For now.

Dinner at Harolds

My Godfather Harold invited Lin and I over for some beef stew, and an education in his old record player.

New Years Reset

For the past few New Years, Lin, Pizza, and I have taken a long weekend trip to a town no more than a few hours from home. The intention is always simple: slow down, reflect, and get clear on how we want to enter the year ahead. This year we landed in Chestertown, MD, a small college town about an hour and a half away. It is a grounding mix of small town vibes and wide open nature along the Chester River. (The shed below was our AirBNB)

If I ever try to imagine heaven on earth, I think the pace would feel a lot like these New Years trips. It helps that emails tend to quiet down around the holidays, and I can feel my nervous system slowly recalibrating in real time. There is a kind of settling that happens. It is wonderful.

There were many standouts on this trip, most of them captured in the photos below. What is not pictured is a book I have returned to again and again, The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen, now for the fifth time. This most recent reading landed deeper than any before. Nouwen writes about the practices of solitude, silence, and prayer not as lofty ideals, but as lived realities that require space.

Being away (and unhurried) allowed his words to move from my head into something more embodied. That is often the challenge with spiritual books. When read in the middle of full, noisy weeks, their wisdom can feel abstract. Given time and quiet, though, something different happens. The words begin to take root.

“Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life.” -Henri Nouwen

I came home from the weekend with a softer relationship to my own life. Photographing these moments and later returning to the images has become a simple ritual, helping me notice what I might otherwise pass by.

Artsy Selfie

First selfie of 2026! I’m gonna attempt to keep this artsy selfie thing going here.