Every year around my birthday I want to take a self portrait that kind of sums up the “feel” of that year, and this year marks the third instalment of the series. It’s also my 30th birthday.

I guess thirty is supposed to be a milestone of sorts, and the past year has certainly been one of immense change. I got married. I returned to Canada after five years of living in Asia. I started a business. Respectively, these events have been amazing, incredibly hard, and exciting, but, overall, I’m just really really tired.

Since this year’s photo was taken with a sore throat and fever, I think it does a good job of summing that up.