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  • Life Lately

    Life Lately

    I have had a different post in draft for over a month, but have zero idea on how I want to present it. I have an entire list of ideas for content because I love creating things, and also have a brand-new, sexy ass camera that I fully enjoy playing with, however, time is a very fickle thing.

    This spring has been the Spring of Learning: said new camera, (Sony a a7IV, my previous “big” camera was a Cannon Rebel Ti1 that met its inevitable death around a year ago), bartending-with the help of our amazing friends Chance, Ash, and Liz!, and the continuing self-education (aka Duolingo) of French and Spanish. Oh and time-management without an actual set-schedule (as of yet).

    Behold: a collection of some of the very first photos I have taken with the new Sony.

    1. Molly <3
    2. Art
    3. Matcha-Cola
    4. A wall, I guess
    5. The grumpiest cat in existence
    6. A window
    7. Grilled Pineapple Salad
    8. An old heater
    9. A favorite corner of our dining room
    10. An old-ass car
    11. Vegan Golden Kimchi
    12. Stairs
    13. Tocororo patio at night
    14. Poe’s Poems
    15. Hibiscus Pomegranate Paloma

    Dave and I also spend most of our days off cleaning the disaster we made in our home during the week, at one of our friend’s bar-on our laptops and drinking, at Tocororo-drinking/cooking/cleaning/taking photos/yapping with friends, staying up waaaayyy to late re-watching episodes of Gilmore Girls and doing puzzles, or, sleeping in until 2pm, %100 dead to the world.

    The other week, we made the trek out to Port Huron to visit Raven Cafe (Dave had never been!), a cozy game shop, and the biggest antique/consignment shop that I have ever been in. Actually taking most of a day off to hangout (Dave had a meeting that morning), play with my camera, and just not work or clean was the equivalent of getting your favorite pull from a blind box. Yes, I do hate myself for typing that.

    There are quite a few projects on the horizon, that range from personal, house/yard, and work. All that are pretty amazing future endeavors!

    So stay tuned, and stuff!

    Until next post!

    đź“ŤDetroit, MI.

    Sara Bellum

  • A Photo An Hour (Kinda)

    A Photo An Hour (Kinda)

    The prompt for this blog post was to take one photo, each hour of the day for twelve hours. The inspiration was to capture these images with Dave’s Canon, with the intent of becoming more familiar with his camera.

    Neither intent or purpose made it. I took photos throughout the day with my iPhone, because I have no clue where the Canon decided to hibernate. Also, because I chose Saturday, the day we both are at Tocororo, it was busy as hell and I did not have a spare moment for every hour we were there.

    An attempt was made. Behold:

    Bright eyed & bushy tailed in Eastern Market, kicking off the workday with fresh flowers for the tables at Tocororo, and loads caffeine.

    The market was a little on the empty side, and we nabbed a great parking spot. We therefore assumed that we wouldn’t be a very busy day. We were wrong.

    I failed to take a picture an hour, however, I did manage to get some foodie + drink pics for Toco’s socials. A Cajun chicken thigh sammie, which is a new menu item. And rum, because rum bar (also, the box is pretty).

    Almost end-of-shift boop w/the Toco kids!

    I finished up a little earlier than Dave, so I sat at the bar noodling out some ideas for upcoming posts when a wild Nekita appeared!

    Nekita works at Lagerhaus No. 5, a brewery we frequent in the market. She is also a fellow neurodivergent-crafty kid, and one of the besties.

    Dave and I then decided to grab a post-work drink at Detroit City Distillery, also located in Eastern Market. They are still decked out for the holidays, so it is festive af in there.

    We then headed up to Ferndale to celebrate the birth of another bestie, Aaron! I also failed to take a photo of said kid. Instead, enjoy this photo of Dave, Paige, Dwayne, Nick, et moi.

    I have high hopes of doing a series of these posts, hopefully taking photos once per hour and not at random, and with the intent of using all of our cameras. That being said, stay tuned! Hopefully I won’t fuck it up next round!

    That’s all folks, see ya next post!

    đź“ŤDetroit, MI.

    Sara Bellum