I am many things. 

If you found this from my artsier Instagram page, you’ll already know that I often prefer to have words to go along with my images.

Call it vanity, call it ADHD, I just sometimes need people to know what I think. This is the space for me to discuss that.

This is also the space for me to write voluminously at/about/around pictures I take. It’s a safe bet, at this point, that I “yearn to be a street photographer”.

(Hence the title.)

As such, this blog will be random writings couched in the language of “here’s words needed to make more sense of the world around me”.

This intro, like me (and us all), is a work in progress.

The me I want to be
Diary of a Wannabe Street Photographer Aaron Leach Diary of a Wannabe Street Photographer Aaron Leach

The me I want to be

When it comes to Christmas and Christmas-adjacent activities, it turns out, there is not much better than that. I love my aunt and uncle, and they had dreamt about this farm for a long time. After my aunt’s cancer scare in the early 2010s, they decided to sell their (really nice) house and put all of their time and effort into building this tree farm. Not just to supply the community with Christmas trees and various holiday-related things, but also to be a place that uplifts kids and adults who are battling cancer.

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