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Is it Santa or just an icy rock pummeling through space? Benton Harbor, Michigan. October, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

Merry Christmas, y’all! Yesterday I mentioned jotting down some thoughts on what I plan to be focusing on going into the new year. We’ve been quite distracted watching holiday movies (Home Alone, The Family Stone, White Christmas), so I’ll get into those individual posts beginning tomorrow. Looking back, 2024 was quite honestly one of my personal favorite years, despite some big challenges, but I’m also very much looking forward to 2025. I’m also quite proud I’ve managed to get through an entire year of daily posts. It’s been something I’d wanted to do for like a decade and finally made it happen.

It was around this time last year that the idea hit me to start this here blog, so it seemed only fitting I would dedicate some time towards pondering what projects next year might bring.

Topics we’ll explore in the next string of days include:

1. The Illinois Project aka Ill Wandering

2. Documentary Project

3. Photobook Store

4. Commercial Food & Beverage Photography

5. Portrait Studio

6. Opening a Bar

7. This Here Blog

8. Street Photography

9. The Studio As An Event Space

It’s like the nine days of Christmas, or something! Anyway… back to the holiday cheer. See you soon.

-Clayton