2026-07-16Hello!This was a weird place — I'll start with that. Some music and arts building that was open to the public but felt empty; I left a few minutes later to look for lunch.These lights are not electronic. They are open to the sky above, and are separated with both glass and... some water.This was an...

2026-07-15Hello! This is an open letter to M, my only (so far) imaginary guest. By the way, I've since learned about the word "epistolary". Reading into it, I kinda hate that trope... so this might be the last one I do in this style.For now, M, let's set aside the things we could never do and the places we could...

2026-07-14Hello! No toilet humor today. I was considering recruiting someone else to write this article, but the scheduling didn't quite work out.This is a detailed image of a log in the forest. Its bark is textured in spots and blurry in others, against a smudge of green and gray in the background.When choosing...

2026-07-13Hello! I'm glad I'm not talking about roadkill today.I've looked back at all the photos I've published on this website. A surprising amount of them — including yesterday's image — are iterations and improvements on previous photos I've taken. Those previous photos would have been shared through text...

2026-07-12Hello!On a regular park walk in the afternoon, I paid attention to the light and saw this squirrel climbing around above me.Every time I go on a photowalk, it ends up producing images that I would never have expected. I got fewer keepers than I hoped for, but maybe that's just my standards increasing over...

2026-07-11Hello!I resisted music streaming for a long while. The appeal of listening to music in the background never sat right with me. But it has its uses.When I signed up for a Spotify account, I configured my algorithm and listened to several jazz tracks. Some classy track came up, and it gave me the tasty...

2026-07-10Hello!My internet connection is down. Busy day today, anyways.I won't be writing much, other than to say that I'm rediscovering the camera settings and various menus. It has a suite of basic editing options!I can change some colors and brightness, I can apply filters, and I can add effects like I did here....

2026-07-09Hello! After a month, the headache of repair and replacement has concluded.This is my camera, returned to me. It hasn't been fixed. The repair costs proved to be more expensive than I could handle, and the camera could not be sold for parts or for any meaningful trade-in value.While at the camera store, it...

2026-07-08Hello!This is my favorite photograph from the fireworks event on July 4. If I wasn't interested in telling a complete story of my experience at the display (and the heavy storm that followed), I would be publishing this photo by itself.I've already written about what happened that night in the previous...

2026-07-07Hello! First, a technical note: I've added an infinite scroll as a new page on my website. With a fast internet connection, readers can view all the photos in one go and see how my photography has changed (for the better, perhaps?) since Day 1.To recap: I photographed fireworks for the July 4 celebrations,...

2026-07-06Hello!At the end of the fireworks show, the wind picked up. Embers up in the sky were being dragged by the wind, but it was the storm's time for attention.As I was packing up, I pressed the shutter one last time to show a firestorm of stars falling. The camera missed focus, creating thick lines of light...

2026-07-05Hello!I photographed the July 4 fireworks at night with a long exposure. Some fireworks gave sparkles of a golden color, and others lit up the night sky with big embers of yellow and blue.Whether the fireworks were timed at the exact right time or the exact wrong time, I haven't decided.Driving out to a...