Category: Slice of Life

こんばんは！How are you? I am well! Happy to be healthy and full of energy. I’ve been thinking lately how lucky we are to be alive. It’s such an amazing thing to imagine that we could have been born in a different age, but the one we are living in now is so incredible! I have no idea what the future will bring, but present day is pretty dang awesome.

Speaking a bit more “down-to-earth” awesome… my new Zebra pens arrived! I was looking for a nice pen set that would work well for writing on Instax prints and the reviews recommended these. So far, I like them! The colors are vibrant and the ink dries fast. The pens have a regular-size tip and a fine-point tip, which is convenient. Also, these pens are refillable – you can buy ink cartridges separately. Not sure if it is easier to just buy a new pen or the cartridge, but it’s cool that there is that option.

So now I have a nice set of pens, I am starting to write on the prints I have created. I’m at least putting the date on them, but I want to also write a little more about the photo location, or the day, or the weather, etc. It’s fun and adds a lot of character to the album, IMHO.

Well, the week is half over. I hope you have a great Thursday!

おやすみなさい！Take care!

-B

Hi everyone, how’s it going? The days are just flying by. I cannot believe it’s already the 19th of January… before you know it, we’ll be into February!

Yesterday was a school holiday, so the traffic was very light. In fact, there wasn’t any kind of traffic jam on the way in. But today, school is back in session. But at least it gave me a nice photo. I took this one using my Panasonic TS-2 camera. It was in the side pocket of my backpack, and the X100T was inside the backpack, so I just grabbed the compact camera and snapped the photo above. I think it came out pretty good, especially with a bit of post processing to remove noise, fix perspective, crop, adjust colors, and add a vignette. I am getting pretty fast with Lightroom… the adjustments to this photo took about two minutes. And it’s fun to do!

Well, we’ve just about made it to Wednesday! Or, if you are in Europe, Africa, or Asia, you are already well into hump-day!

Good night all! おやすみなさい！

-B

こんばんは！How was your Monday?

Today was a busy day for me at work. Lots to do, and not enough time to do it all! But the work is interesting and kind of fun, with a lot of challenges. I am really thankful that I do the type of work that I do. It’s funny but I never gave too much thought about going into a creative field when I was younger… it just sort of happened. I remember when I was in High School, I told my counselor that I wanted to go into graphic design or art and that was probably what put me on this path. It all just fell into place after that. Come to think of it, I never had much of a long-term vision about my career… but things have worked out. I think it has been a good professional life!

Today’s photo is of our dog, Lani, relaxing in the sleeping bag. That green sleeping bag is usually stored in Bay’s closet, but it came out because Koa went to a sleepover and since then it has been used in front of the tv, and now as you can see, Lani loves it too. I guess it could use a washing, and then I’ll put it away.

By the way, my new JanSport Hatchet backpack (in Grey Tar color) arrived today and I like it! I’ll write up some more thoughts about it after I’ve had a chance to use it. But so far, so good!

Well, tomorrow should be another busy day, so I will get some rest now. Take care!

おやすみなさい！

-B