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The Olympus 12-40mm f2.8 PRO II lens is the first lens I bought after changing my approach to photography and a lens I truly appreciate. This lens gives a depth of field equivalent to 24mm – 80mm in full frame equivalency, which makes it an excellent walking-around lens when paired with my OM Systems OM-1 camera body. It even worked well paired with my smaller and more casually styled PEN E-P7, although the size, weight and weather-sealing suit the OM-1…

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Some time ago, I wrote a blog post about starting to feel disillusioned with what I was doing for a living, and how much I was enjoying discovering the new hobby of photography (especially travel photography). Well, it’s been a few months now, a lot of life has happened, and things have progressed a little. In summary: Speaking of the Japan travel, we also made the decision that we’re heading back NEXT January (2025). It’s partly to do things from…

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Monday, January 8, 2024.

Sunday, January 7, 2024

Saturday, January 6, 2024

Friday, January 5th, 2024 Visiting Enpachi on our first trip to Japan, May 2010 Visiting Enpachi on our third trip, January 2018 Visiting Enpachi on our current trip, January 2024

Thursday, January 4, 2024. WRESTLE KINGDOM 18

Documenting a starting point for my photography journey. Portrait: A traditional headshot portrait with controlled studio lighting. Trying for a traditional headshot portrait of MBW, a light edit in Adobe Lightroom mobile to convert to black and white (which we decided prior to shooting), and trying for a key light and bounce light to provide some even lighting. The background is a little unplanned, but thought it provided a soft background look that helped with some negative space on the…

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Something a little different from the Japan trip update posts; I’ve been thinking a lot lately about retirement. Not about my retirement, I’m still far too many years away from that being an option we could even consider, but the retirement of others. In the last six months, my parents have (deservedly) retired, sold their house, and bought a beautiful smaller house walking distance from the beach in a smaller seaside town we used to live in. They’ve had months…

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