This spring I had the pleasure of living on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay. Most days I commuted to the city by ferry, but occasionally I drove, and when I drove the sun and bay came together to remind me of freedom and potential and a life rich with possibility.

Photography’s relationship to non-visual arts, literature and writing, inspires me to consider form when shooting and editing. Not all works need to be heavily edited, re-written and edited again, and sometimes the best songs are raw and rough and full of imperfections. These photographs are a short song of enthusiasm. They are a brief paragraph about a morning and a feeling and the celebration of that feeling written quickly on a napkin or used paper bag.

Two weeks ago after a smoke and a walk in the fog, Blair expressed his belief that creating great art requires passion for something other than art itself.