Sharing an entire roll with someone is still something that is a bit uncomfortable for me. I’m going to be starting a YT channel to share more soon, and I do want to show the “missed”, or flubbed shots along with the ones that I’m happy with. I love William Klein’s work, and I posted a short excerpt from one of his documentaries a while…
I went to South Africa in 2018, and my (now) wife and I traveled around for a couple of weeks. I think I only took my M9, and the D16 for this trip, but I bought a really cheap film camera for about $5 and ran a couple of rolls through it (mostly family pictures, so nothing to share here). All of these throwaways are…
I love islands. I plan on retiring on an island some day. Being near the ocean is calming in a way that I did not properly understand or appreciate until I started working mainly in Tokyo again. So far, I’ve lived (as in longer than a year) on two islands in Japan, and have visited many of them. The island lifestyle is unique, and alluring….
I need a moment to shoot b/w again. Just a ‘touch up’, to get back to the basics. I’ll probably pull out the RD-1 for this. I used to feel like b/w photos was somehow cheating when I first started photography. I’m slightly intimidated by black and white photography, because I have no idea how to pair the style with filter use. Something that I…
I can’t wait to go back to Indonesia. I fucked up and drank some tea on my 3rd day, but other than that I loved every moment. I took three cameras, my D16 for video, my M9 for digital photos, and of course the trusted TX-1 for film. I wanted to go, because of a documentary I saw and a book that I read. The…
This post really hurts. When I went to Cuba, I mainly shot with my Fuji TX-1 and the amazing 45mm lens. This is by far my favorite setup as I really enjoy shooting in a panoramic ratio, and that 45mm lens is amazing. I shot 5 rolls, and then left the film out in a rented apartment (was working as an interpreter in Kentucky at…
I have a few photos that I’m going to post as throwaways on here from now on. I’m going to start by posting a few that I found when looking through old folders, as a sort of ‘spring cleaning’. I’m posting them with old blog posts that were also just sitting in my drafts folder, but I’m going to keep the date the same, because…
During my uni years, I had a friend who made fun of my accent. Said it was “country”. Some of the best shit happens in the countryside though. Usually better food too. Enjoy some of my throwaway photos from these countryside festivals, and a tired pochi sunbathing.
Chemicals and wavelengths got me to thinking about how colors can’t be described in words, and therefore it is *impossible(?) to know if my ‘green’ is the same as someone else’s. The wavelength is the same, and conditioning has brought us to a point where we’ll all call objects of the same wavelength, ‘green’ or ‘blue’, but what if the interpretation leads us to see…