I recently took a trip to Tokyo to speak with an acquaintance that I haven’t seen in a very long time. This acquaintance of mine is in his 40’s and has everything that I want in life. He owns his own production company that is doing spectacularly well. He knows everyone in his industry, and maintains good relations with them, and he also moves very…
It’s not really new, but I’m uploading this post now that I’ve scanned a few rolls. I plan on redoing my portfolio, and making it simpler before I start shopping it, and I wanted to include pictures from this camera. I’m going to upload a few of the pictures that I will not be including in the portfolio in this post. These are the ‘throwaways’…
I took my Fuji TX-1, and my Epson with the 21mm Voigt. This is a trip that I have been looking forward to for a very long time. Goto, and Nagasaki, served as a hiding place for Christians for many years in the past before religious freedom in Japan. Many people fled persecution by sailing miles out into the ocean, and in some instances establishing…
Last night, I had a really strange dream. I was with a large group of people, maybe 9 or so all around the same age as myself, and we were walking towards a grocery store. We were all clearly good friends and it was nighttime, very dark out. We went into the grocery store, we all stood by a different register (I was at the…
This post has very little to do with photography, in fact, I’ve decided to start using my blog as more of a journal than assigning a theme to it. I took my TX-1, my X-Pro1, and my RD-1 out to Nagasaki’s lantern festival the other night. I haven’t looked at the pictures yet, but I didn’t feel good about any of my shots, and thus…
A while ago a very talented extraterrestrial being asked me if they could deface one of my pictures. To which I obliged. The picture was of the remains of a building that had already been destroyed by mother nature. I took it on the Battleship Island off of the coast of Nagasaki. Let me introduce this person. She is painter, and a writer, and her works…
Finally! A decent lens for one of my favorite cameras. A couple of weeks ago, I purchased the Voigtländer 21mm F1.8 lens. It is a lens that I have wanted for a very long time, and one that makes sense, since I’ll be using it on the APS-C sized Epson R-D1. The lens is built like a tank. I was expecting it to be a lot…
The above picture is a double exposure made from a picture I took of a man fixing his roof, and another of the Japanese Alps. If you search the hashtag #roofninja, you can see a few others that I made using the same photo. In my closet, I have a wonderful Contax RX with a 45mm pancake lens on it. It is a wonderful camera,…
New Year’s resolutions, no matter how cheesy, and hackneyed the concept is, are a good chance to reflect on things that you enjoyed, the things you didn’t and the things you want to change about yourself or your life. Having said that I have a few goals that I’d like to share. 1.) Be honest with people. No more sarcasm. 2.) Take more pictures. I’ve…