This Is My Love Letter to Life | Our 2025 in Photographs
2025
Hello House
Big shoes to fill some might say
Let me tell you a bit about us
Consider this a formal handshake or warm hug perhaps
I'm Ryan, I'll be the one saying wow a lot,
Needlessly appreciating the small things like silly holes that tell a story of you.
A vortex of memories that we now get to add to.
I'll also be the one hanging too much stuff on your walls.
Consider every nail a celebration of you.
This is Paige, she's the one who moved entire histories to be near you
That warmth you feel is not from flames but from the heart she shows you
We are creativity made manifest obsessed with love, mostly a mess but tested by a will for greater things,
You are our greater thing house, but not our greatest.
Meet Casey, he's the one making foundations shake & walls quake with the wildness of life
Forgive the car thrown scratches on skirting boards they are merely a mark of how much he loves you.
He will be a better man than me
This is Sidney the smallest human surrounded by giant love
He's already taken more footsteps on your floors than ever before
You will be the only house he ever knows
This is us house
What stories will you see
We came to you for a better life, a forever home of magic by the Sea
We are so happy to meet you house
Hello house
Hello our Home.
What a phenomenal year. I feel like I repeat that every single 365 days but 2025 was seriously special. Yes my work aloud me to travel the globe in 2025, but it was tilting the scales on the side of family & getting that work life balance oh so right for the first time in history that really made 2025 my all time favourite.
Again clicking a button for a living allows me to see a chunk of this floating blue marble in space but it was with my three adventure buddies every damn time. I've always said what's the point in seeing these crazy cool places, putting in those air miles without people to share it with, & holy shit those memories are worth it. We also left Yorkshire behind to move to the seaside in Lincolnshire & without a frickin doubt we made the single best decision we've ever made for not just mine & Paige's lives but also for our two bloody brilliant tiny humans.
I spend weeks and weeks putting together both my Shutter Go Click Year in Review movie & my This is My Love Letter to Life posts. I'm proud to say photography transcends weddings in my life. These little pockets of time shot on grainy ass film. Flashes in the pan of four intertwined souls on this journey called life. I don't want the footsteps I leave behind to only be about strangers in love. I want to leave something for the ones I love too. The hours, days & weeks spent making these images, movies & posts might be on social media but they will always be for a greater purpose. A purpose that will be more poignant with the passing of time. When hands hold. The creak of a wizened spine. A smile with the words "That old guy sure could take a great fucking picture"
This is My Love Letter to Life. This is our 2025 in photographs.
