Emilie Hofferber

06/17/2026

06/16/2026

a reminder

06/16/2026

it’s always better when it is real 😍

06/15/2026

it’s that season where the answer to what i’m up to is just: outside

06/15/2026

some snapshots from the beginning of may, in which i camped on the beach for the first time on an island off the coast of baja california sur in mexico.

there’s a lot more photos from this experience, and a lot i could share about how magical it was. waking up to the moon over the peninsula with a soundtrack of waves crashing along shore and the songs of the native birds on the island is a level of peace i cannot quite describe. the ocean is magical and incredible when you’re near it but seeing below the surface is something indescribable. i didn’t know what a parrotfish was until i saw one and i still don’t know how to describe the colors they wear.

i love moments and trips and places that make you slow down. i really love experiences that involve sleeping by water.

06/11/2026

i wouldn’t have it if i wasn’t planning on using it… BUT

here’s a small list of things i have overheard while taking photos:
“no way she knows what she is doing”
“her husband must be rich that lens is expensive”
“what’s the point of having that big of a lens if you don’t know how to use it”

i never feel the need to interject because a stranger passing judgment is projecting their own insecurities. it’s not my problem.

last year i bought my dream lens, used from a fellow photographer who posted it in their stories for an incredible deal after years and years of scouring every used gear marketplace and maybe sometimes money does buy happiness.

anyway, just a girl in love with really big grey lenses. and monarch butterflies.

06/10/2026

the longer i live outside the more i’ve realized that not all my neighbors get a choice in what happens to the planet we all share. i’m sharing photos of animals because apparently that’s the best way to communicate this.

in place of animals, i could also put photos of plants who also face difficulties surviving as choice after choice makes existing more difficult for them. i also could show photos of children who don’t get to participate in the conversations that impact their future. i could also share photos of people all over the globe who suffer at the hands of greed continents away.

i struggle heavily with climate anxiety and i know that personal accountability is just a way for the biggest polluters to shift the problem back to the people who are already trying so hard to do their best. i think i’ll never be able to comprehend that the entire course of history is a series of decisions made by really rich people that everyone else has to deal with.

i also know that so much of this is a losing battle but i know i have more in common as someone who doesn’t eat meat with the rural farmer or hunter than either of us will ever have with the people who make decisions we all have to follow.

i’m rambling, but i care because it’s not just us.