to remember, to cherish, to behold
my interest in photography started out not as a desire to take good photos by conventional standards, but to document precious moments in life. as I have gotten more into photography I…
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2023: aspirations
I have always written long-form for previous years’ new year’s posts, but I thought for this year I will adopt the bullet-point format like my year-in-review. Also previously I had focused on…
looking back at 2022
I like writing a review post every year so I can have a succinct record of how I spent the year. As usual I am aware of recency bias so I’m not…
poisoned by self / compact cameras / effort of writing notes
Really enjoyed watching this youtube interview with Reuben Radding, a street photographer. Usually interviews with photographers are about photography and cameras (duh) but Reuben talks about using photography as an escape from…
contemplating mortality & creative output
These days I’ve been re-examining my relationship to my life, and by extension: my relationships to this website, social media, etc. I know it doesn’t seem that way, but I self-censor a…
the value of a seemingly ordinary moment
I happened to chance upon a quote in the movie, “Up”: “Sometimes, you will never know the value of a moment.Until it becomes a memory”. It coincides with what’s on my mind…
getting to know myself through a camera
It all started when my partner wanted to acquire a camera because she wanted better pictures for her art. I thought she was being picky, and that her iphone took pictures fine….
on living in a long goodbye
So I did not suffer any significant side effects from the second dose of the pfizer vaccine apart from a sore arm, but five days post vaccine I did have a bad…
plans for post-vaccination recovery
I am getting my second pfizer dose later this afternoon, and I am not looking forward to the side effects – fingers crossed that it wouldn’t be worse than some fever and…