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Industrial Corktown and Neon Lights

Industrial Corktown and Neon Lights

Industrial Corktown Shoot

EngagementHallie KohlerSeptember 29, 2017Comment

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A conversation on the floor of the Iceland airport. It goes like this. Girl carrying several bright yellow bags slumps down beside me, mumbling angrily (loudly) about missing her flight. I clear it up, we are actually early and no one has boarded for Detroit yet, so she immediately proceeds into a new issue — there are no boys in America. She’d just come from Sweden, where apparently (and ok, unsurprisingly) the boys are a significant improvement over their American counterparts. I nod, sort of, and try to emit an understanding chuckle before being asked if I EVER got used to the damn time change. I did indeed, I informed her, and we briefly ran through why I’ve been in this time zone for so long. I-work-all-summer-and-save-to-travel-for-months-in-winter ended in the obvious question: you live in Michigan, why are you working all summer? / oh well I’m a wedding photographer, so that’s the busy season for it / ohhh so, you found love? / um nope not at the moment / .... (looks confused) but you seem so happy? ⠀
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I could have gone into it there on the tile floor, why was I so happy on a 5 hour layover in Iceland that I’d just spent most of renewing my healthcare plan and researching visas and paying my credit card bill... but I decided to cut to the chase.⠀
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I have really awesome friends. ⠀
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(Must be a little sleep-deprived, I can’t stop writing instagram captions about my damn friends.)⠀
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#cliffsofmoher#visitireland#tourismireland#irelandphotographer#irelandtravel#peoplescreative#passionpassports#stayandwander#roamtheplanet#upknorth#collectivelycreate#outdoorfolk#wildernessculture#optoutside#campvibes#vanlifediaries#projectvanlife#homeiswhereyouparkit#vanlifemovement#advantureco#openmyworld#goplayoutside#greatnorthcollective#wildernessculture#letsgosomewhere#keepitwild#finditliveit#neverstopexploring#wildwanderers#headedelsewhere

Ready to board the first of three flights, homeward bound. Here in the Faro airport I’m having a late afternoon coffee and trying to reflect back on how the last month of experiences had made me feel. If I can memorize the emotions, the effect of the emotions on my body, I can have them ready to re-use when I hit the bumps that are inevitably ahead. The kind of joy that you breathe and the exhilaration that makes you dizzy. That in-the-moment excitement that moves into the spot right below your ribcage, the spot where the anxiety usually lives. Every soft subconscious smile and sigh, the rush of blood after a good belly laugh, the rush of sweat and a mental fist- pump after another airport sprint (lugging the heavy bag you are cursing yourself for packing so full). It’s all inside. 4 pairs of shoes later and I made it, returning so full inside, too.⠀
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I started this caption thinking I would write about people, because this is a photo of Emily after all, but here we are. Each of the emotions I’ve recalled has a memory attached, and each memory features the people who’ve got their own spots inside.⠀
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#canaryislands#wolvesworkshop #stayandwander#roamtheplanet#upknorth#exploretocreate#optoutside#campvibes#advantureco#openmyworld#goplayoutside#wildernessculture#keepitwild#neverstopexploring#wildwanderers#headedelsewhere#sisterphotogs#portaitpage#agameofportraits#pursuitofportraits#finditliveit#nomadgoods#adventureon

Classic Cliffs. I assume you’ve seen this image or something similar before, but I’m here to report that it was worth the 8€ and the windy walk to capture one for myself. Standing on the edge really does rattle your brain and reckon with your (otherwise) sure sense of footing.⠀
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#cliffsofmoher#visitireland#tourismireland#irelandphotographer#irelandtravel#peoplescreative#passionpassports#stayandwander#roamtheplanet#upknorth#collectivelycreate#outdoorfolk#wildernessculture#optoutside#campvibes#vanlifediaries#projectvanlife#homeiswhereyouparkit#vanlifemovement#advantureco#openmyworld#goplayoutside#greatnorthcollective#wildernessculture#letsgosomewhere#keepitwild#finditliveit#neverstopexploring#wildwanderers#headedelsewhere

I’ve returned to southern Portugal, where the keepers of the piri-piri peppers live on a sailboat suspended above concrete. ⠀
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Go on, leave all the seeds in, it’s gonna be a 66 degree scorcher tomorrow. Anyone in Portugal up for a pool party? Anyone reading this remember the Aquabats song by the same name? Go on, take a dip.

howl at the half moon, radio queen⠀
she’s all smoke, she’s all nicotine⠀
the songs in my pocket just crumble apart⠀
won’t you sing me something for the dark, dark, dark⠀
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Gregory Alan Isakov⠀
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I was lucky enough to catch Gregory playing in London a few nights ago. The whole hall was hushed, fully attentive, respectfully quiet, as brought us all along into a musical moonscape. Now, reading these lyrics on a train to Gatwick, I’ve still got the goosebumps. ⠀
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#peoplescreative#passionpassports#stayandwander#roamtheplanet#upknorth#collectivelycreate#outdoorfolk#exploretocreate#wildernessculture#optoutside#campvibes#vanlife#vanlifediaries#projectvanlife#homeiswhereyouparkit#vanlifemovement#advantureco#openmyworld#goplayoutside#greatnorthcollective#wildernessculture#letsgosomewhere#keepitwild#finditliveit#neverstopexploring#wildwanderers#headedelsewhere

I'm going to keep posting my latest travel images on here, is that okay? I love to photograph so much more than lovely people in love (though I love that too) and I think that my style and all my images are influenced by the colors and textures and lines around me. Traveling is the best way I've found to open up to seeing different lines. Traveling is the best time to stretch a little, and to let in new light.⠀
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#portugalphotographer#portugalphotography#peoplescreative#portugalweddingphotographer#travelportugal#passionpassports#stayandwander#roamtheplanet#livelevel#fragmentmag#upknorth#collectivelycreate#risingtidesociety#communityovercompetition#outdoorfolk#exploretocreate#wildernessculture#optoutside#sourcedadventures#vanlife#vanlifediaries#cabinvibes#cabinchronicles#campvibes⠀
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The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.⠀
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My home is transitory, on the road, and it feels like this will be so for the foreseeable future. Sometimes I fight it, sometimes I long for the comforts associated with “home” — but truthfully it has been the people I’ve met along the way who’ve helped me find my home, who make me whole. Jessie is one of those.

I’ve been from Graciosa to Galway this month, and am still grappling with the grandiose goings on between. Grateful and graceless and grounded and grayish and going to be late and Gaelic and galactic and generous and gentle and gigantic and giving and gold and godly and goofy and goddamn yes I used a thesaurus. Anyway, its been groovy. On to London soon!

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.⠀
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I think the best time for existential thought is after 19hrs of travel and 4hrs of sleep and 3 coffees, sitting calmly in a dim light filtered by the yellow glow of plastic RyanAir seats.

Said goodbye to these two after an incredible week in Lagos, Portugal. ⠀
Mornings with coffee on my balcony: 7 ⠀
Sunsets enjoyed (and photographed): 6⠀
Nights on the town: 4 ⠀
Beaches visited: 3⠀
Bars frequented: 2⠀
Holidays celebrated: 2 (thanksgiving and Luke’s birthday)⠀
Bottles (and boxes) of Vinho Verde consumed: will never know

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