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…
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…
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…
Tuesday, January 2, 2024