NYC NYE

Something magical happens when you get together with most of your closest friends to celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of a brand new one. Everything seems so much more shiny and full, happy and raw, stark and meaningful.

It is a life of bright contentment.

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This is for the spirits who know you deep; who saw you through thick and thin; who will see you through much more; who have been a part of your being for five years or ten years, those without whom you would not be yourself.

This is for the brigade you see far too infrequently, but once you’re back together, there is only the present and sometimes the past, the future existing only to plan more presents like this one and to talk of more pasts like you’ve had.

These are those you wish you were rich enough to buy houses for to plop down around you in your current place, knowing that without them, there is always a lost home for your heart, a division that exists until you are together again . . .

This is for the cat-lovers, the cowboys, the musicians, the philosophers, the bikers, the photographers, the tinkerers, the lovelies – those whom your heart beats loudest for.

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I love all your guts; I miss all your faces.

Right on, 2012. Right on.

Be well.

– Camera Coon

 

SAWK Scotland! That sounds awesome. My friends in Scotland would definitely be trouble.

As far as processing, mostly I just do what looks right, haha. I was trained in film always, so the only things I really do are dodge and burn and maybe sharpen or saturate a bit.

These photos were hard because they were all very, very dark.

But thanks!1/7/2012 – 2:04pm

Leslie Great shots Sarah! I have a group of friends like this, I wish we could spend a NYE together. Maybe someday. The last time we were all together was for a wedding in Scotland.

(What kind of processing are you doing? Love the color and look of the shots.)1/7/2012 – 1:26pm

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