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This years wrap up collage video is just going to be wedding photos. I’m going to do a big dump with my usual self indulgent caption blog but for now I want to shout out a few people that made my wedding perfect. First, @dj_dre_vibes for keeping everyone dancing the whole night. @dscstudios_ for capturing so many perfect moments. @biltmoretheatre for your staffs patience, willingness to work together with our vision and honestly just being the perfect spot. @ichbinumlaut for the beautiful words marrying us and also @pacheeks for letting me be the bridezilla while we planned this. I love you all. I’m a husband now. taken in Biltmore Theatre by @itsmematii

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This is the only trend I like doing, these quick flash’s of all the photos I took in my camera roll. It’s fun to go all the way back to jan 1st and look through everything taken and remember some of the smaller memories that I forgot happened in year, or forgot happened at all.

2025 was a full year for me, from finally getting my j-pouch surgery and ending this cycle of bullshit caused by my colon, getting a new job and new car (rip Bastien), great weddings and saying goodbye to my special nighttime girl, Riley, and my grandmother, Candis. Kayla and I got a lot of wedding planning done, saw friends and of the first time in a few years got to see my extended family down in Cleveland as well, which is always a good time. Shout out to my cousin Michael for organizing a game night with 40 people, that was impressive and so much more fun than the usual “binge drink and eat too much” we’ve been doing for years, and I hope this meme continues. Somehow I did not take a single picture that night, which is how you know I was having a lot of fun.

To the friends I saw, I love you. To the friends I missed, I still love you, you just never respond to my texts fast enough. To the boys, we will get those wings, to my gamer girls, thank you for getting me into Fortnite I guess and to my Fiancé Kayla, next time I post one of these it is going to be entirely wedding photos. I cannot wait to be your husband.   2026 is going to be all about execution. I hope. I got that video out, finally (*link in bio) and hope to get a few more out this year as well. In fact, I’m already working on it, and it’s called “stuff”. It will be better than how that sounds, I hope. I want to get out of this role cause that was a mistake (idiot) and actually start at Trent, like I planned on doing in 2025. I would like to finish this PMP certification. Regularly do chores, and trim my closet and my waistline down to something more respectable than I’ve allowed both to grow to.

And I want to remember who I am, and what I love. Here’s to a year of learning, loving, growing, gaming, cooking, cleaning, and fucking showing up.

I love you. by @itsmematii

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10 months ago

It’s ween by @itsmematii

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a year ago

All said and done, I’ll miss 2024. by @itsmematii

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2 years ago

I’ve spent the last two years almost now stuck. I can sit around and blame a disease that fucking wrecked me, stress from a constantly evolving job or changes to my personal life that have made me happier to just stay home on the couch but I’ve been stuck creatively, that’s obvious on my tl here on this app (my only real outlet).

photography was something that allowed me to explore my city with a new found curiosity, to see the sights I’d seen a thousand times in a way which made them new again. It allowed me to try and tell a story, to weave a narrative through captures giving me an opportunity to be vulnerable, which is something I’d always struggled with. I was always able to be brutally honest with myself and to anyone that followed my journey of self discovery and this new hobby.

And that’s all it’s ever going to be, a hobby. and I’m happy with that. But I’m sad at how I’ve neglected it. My camera sits on blocks while the new transmission sits in a cardboard box opened once and forgotten about. Collecting dust rested on the amp not even plugged in. Drying up next to brushes that never got cleaned in a plastic bag marked with the name of a supermarket that no longer exists.

I want to get back into it. I’m moving soon, Toronto will no longer be my muse. I’ll no longer be able to just grab my camera and go for a walk, everything will have to have a deliberateness behind it, scooting to a train station and taking a journey into a city I thought I’d never leave, resigned to being our version of the “I hate living in LA guy”. Stuck.

I got a month left and a lot to do, but I’m reaching out. I want to change up what I do for the last month, I want to start incorporating people more into my photography. Not straight up headshots, but like…Street portraiture? Not sure what it’s called. I’ve long made the concrete and steel the subject of my photography, I forgot about the people that live here. So hmu if you wanna get your picture taken. You can be forever importalized in my Lightroom unedited folder. Stuck, like me.

🐬 taken in Toronto, Ontario by @itsmematii

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2 years ago

I spent my 20s bouncing around a lot of things. Friend groups, jobs, apartments, relationships, situationships. Hobbies, music genres, casual interests. The only thing that stayed the same was (for some reason) my hairstyle. I locked that in early. Fade to 0 on the sides, leave the top alone. Been doing the same thing since 10th grade. Was I ahead of the curve? Hardly. I wanted to look like Steven Morrissey, just couldn’t get my hair coiffed the right way, so settled on that. Where was I?

When I turned 30 I believed I had experienced everything life had to offer, and the rest of my life would just be a series of the same few things with slight variations. I had lived in Europe(ok my parents just brought me alone but still, scoreboard) I had visited Paris so much that the idea of going to Paris again was boring. I had drank expensive whiskey, ate steak from a cow I picked out, camped out in my car under the stars, “swam” in three oceans, did stand up, helped make a movie, quit smoking (a few times, might do it again too) and until I met you, thought I fell in love.

Turns out, I was wrong. I was wrong about experiencing everything because as it turned out I hadn’t felt true love until I fell in love with you. Turns out, nothing I’d felt before was even close. People always say “you’d know” and I always convinced myself I did, until you came alone. Fuck, I knew then. I realized all the things I’d never experienced before, and all the things I’d get to. We could live in Europe, we could camp out under the stars, we could get sick of Paris. We could swim in EVERY ocean. We could start a family, start our own life.

I’ve never been more excited to experience something new, because I’ll get to experience it with you.

Except a new hairstyle, it’s falling out on top and I have to cling onto SOMETHING.

Dolphins. Also, HUGE shout out to @nicolekirkphoto for taking these. We don’t have nearly enough photos of the two of us, and I’m excited to have you take even more. by @itsmematii

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2 years ago

Sorry Gays, the conversion timeline is significantly shorter than it used to be. (Real engagement photos coming and better novella caption too in classic me style I’m just so fucking geeked rn) by @itsmematii

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3 years ago

JANUARY
I spend 2023 hiding away. I stopped leaving my house, unless it was for blood transfusions, or biologic infusions, or cameras up my butt, or scans or consultations or prescription pickups. I spend 51 days total in hospital beds (I counted). I received 28 blood transfusions (I also counted). I ate hospital food until I genuinely liked it and kept eating it until I hated it again. I worried my mom. I stressed out my partner. I was bummed out and sad and cried more than I’ve cried since I was a child. I threw up every morning, my heart rate hit a high of 208 one time walking to check the mail. My hemoglobin hit a low of 28/L probably around the same time. I’d sleep less than an hour at a time. I lost most of my hair. I lost my colon and large intestine and appendix. When my dad turned 60, I was talking to an anesthesiologist. I couldn’t go to a funeral because I couldn’t talk 3 steps without having a panic attack. I stopped going out, I never left my house and my camera collected dust. I lost 73 lbs. 2023 fucking sucked. Here’s to 2024, here’s to going out and seeing friends and eating food and getting back to being happy and only crying when I hear that fucking Edgerunners song. Get some 🐬 in the comments, I’m back baby. taken in Toronto, Ontario by @itsmematii

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3 years ago

Instagrams editing tools are garbage ass and I refused to keep working on this longer than I did and I’m embarrassed how long it took lmao by @itsmematii

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3 years ago

Weathers finally nice enough for me to harass your timelines with photos again. So heres a March dump, and here’s to that website I said I’d have ready by December haha whoops. ⁣
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#bnw #fuji #fujifeed #fujifilm #fujilovers #fujiphotography #photography #photographyislife #photographyislifee #photographylover #photographylovers #photography📷 #street #streetlife #streetphotographer #streetphotographers #streetphotos #streets #streetview #urban #urbanphotography taken in Deer Park by @itsmematii

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More shots from the @humanresources.dept release jam for the new album. Be sure to check out their music, and shout out again to @v.nomie for not only rocking the decks for a great set (or whatever it’s called I don’t know I’m basic I go to power chord shows) but for also working so hard at a passion that he has a featured track on the album. Watch his space, this year he’s showing up. ⁣
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#bnw #fuji #fujifeed #fujifilm #fujilovers #fujiphotography #photography #photographyislife #photographyislifee #photographylover #photographylovers #photography📷 #street #streetlife #streetphotographer #streetphotographers #streetphotos #streets #streetview #urban #urbanphotography taken in Capsul by @itsmematii

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Congratulations to the whole team at @humanresources.dept on the launch of the new record. And shout out @v.nomie for getting his track on there. I heard him make it, he worked his ass off and deserves everyone to check it out. ⁣
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#bnw #fuji #fujifeed #fujifilm #fujilovers #fujiphotography #photography #photographyislife #photographyislifee #photographylover #photographylovers #photography📷 #street #streetlife #streetphotographer #streetphotographers #streetphotos #streets #streetview #urban #urbanphotography taken in Capsul by @itsmematii

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