Chalk this up to things I didn’t think I’d be doing in 2025 but a few weeks ago I was with my brother in St. Petersburg, Florida. We had a lot of time together and part of that was swapping stories and one of my stories was about a landmark moment in my camping life. It’s been a few years now since I came across this unforgettable deer at a state park in Louisiana. For the backstory of the doe, click here. While I was messing around on my computer in the amazing design software Affinity, I wanted to take the picture of the deer and make it into an image suitable for print, although I really didn’t have an idea for what that would mean tangibly.
In fact, her picture started as a cow (more on that later) and slowly morphed into the final image.
I showed my brother what I was working on and he’s a “big picture” guy so he immediately had ideas for sharing the picture and the story of my encounter with the deer. Long story short, she’s now on a hat and my brother gifted the hat to his coworkers in central Florida.
I write a lot of words but I’m not sure I have words for how I feel in this moment. It’s just a hat in one city of one state in a country surrounded by many other countries in a big world. But gosh I feel like I’ve accomplished something big in my little world. I can’t wait to find out what else this might turn into with designing pictures and even sharing the story of the deer with people along the way.
-Out of the Wilderness
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