The Relaunch

Shot with Leica M10 Monochrom and Leica Summilux 50mm f/1.4

I’ve had a Lyfescapes photography blog for almost 10 years. The old site was on Wordpress and had gotten a little clunky, so I decided it was time for a change / upgrade. My life is somewhat different in a lot of ways at this point, so I was thinking about doing this version of the site a little differently. I have an archived version of the old site, but rather than upload that, I’m going to turn Lyfescapes into a reflection of my nomadic life + pics. I will likely pull out some of the old travel photos of course, but I mostly will be using this as a way to document our travels going forward. Look for lots of still photography, but I’m also experimenting with some video, so that will likely hit the site at some point as well.

The last 2.5+ years has been crazy for lot’s of reasons. The pandemic of course, but add the decision to move into an advisory role at G2, start a new business (Arion Research LLC) and buy a converted Mercedes Sprinter van and start travelling. I’ve had the van for over a year and a half, but my travels got pushed back 9 mos because of an accident / recovery. About 10 mos ago we started travelling part time, and subsequently making a bunch of upgrades to the van. I’ll write more on those changes in another post, but wanted to set the stage that we’re just now really getting to the point where we stay out roughly 2/3’s of the time, with NJ still as a home base for now.

I’m lucky I can work from anywhere, which makes the nomadic lifestyle much easier. This past Summer I’ve done trips to Virginia, North Carolina, several trips to the Poconos, Connecticut, and spent 3 weeks in Vermont. I’ve been mostly in commercial campgrounds this Summer, trying to work out the kinks in some of my systems. I joined Harvest Hosts as well, and am finding the “free” overnights really fun to fill in between weeks. I’ve stayed at 2 wineries and 2 distilleries so far (hmm, there seems to be a trend here). Here are a few random pics from those trips, including one of my travel companion Tonks. All shot on the Leica M10 Monochrom.

I plan to be more Active on this blog, so look for more from my trips shortly. Check out the Gallery page too, lot’s of my older stuff there.