"WORK LIFE BALANCE" (PHOTOJOURNALISM)

While taking a photojournalism course, I was tasked with finding and documenting a unique story that could only be told through 12-14 photographs. What I landed on was a man who spent his mornings maintaining his family's farm alongside his wife, and his afternoons partaking in a somewhat niche watersport called "wingfoiling". At nearly 70 years old, Marc Stadler was still completing strenuous manual labor, taking hard falls in frigid water, and tending to a nearly 30 year old horse that has lived over half it's life without eyes. This series of photos tells the story of an old man with a kind of youthful enthusiasm that even made me a little envious. The assignment was to find something unique, and that is the only way I can describe this experience. Driving an hour and a half early on a Saturday to rural Ohio, meeting a horse with no eyes, tasting a recent harvest of the rare native Paw Paw fruit, and discovering a new sport- I'm glad I have these pictures to prove (to myself) that this day actually happened.