Photo break

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"Colorful Tokyo" Tokyo, 1997
“Colorful Tokyo” Tokyo, 1997

こんばんは。How’s it going?

Today I decided to take a break from taking photos, but I did get a bit of inspiration this evening and scanned some of my old slides.

These photos were taken with either my Minolta X-100 or my Minolta α507si on Fujifilm Velvia or Sensia (I edited the scans in Lightroom). When I lived in Japan, I loved roaming the city snapping photos. I can only imagine how many photos I would have taken if good digital cameras existed back then!

Shooting film was really great though. I enjoyed it a lot. Loading the film, taking the time to make more deliberate photos, and the anticipation when the film is at the lab was all part of the fun. I doubt I will go back to film, but I’m glad I had the experience.

"Black and White" Tokyo, 2017
“Black and White” Tokyo, 2017

I hope you had a nice Thursday.

おやすみ

Summer Dreaming

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"Summer Dream" Cedar Park, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.2, 1/8 sec, ISO200
 “Summer Dream” Cedar Park, 2017

こんばんは。

Today was grey and stormy. Although it is nice to have some rain, I am already wishing it were summer! And I wish I were on a tropical island somewhere… But still, stormy sunrises here in Texas can be nice too:

"Morning Clouds" Austin, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4, 1/340 sec, ISO200
 “Morning Clouds” Austin, 2017

I hope you had a nice day!

Red Hot

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"Red Hot" Cedar Park, 2017
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4, 1/4 sec, ISO200
 “Red Hot” Cedar Park, 2017

I’ll admit, Monochrome May is turning out to be a difficult project!

Today’s photo is of a minidisc, which was a a hardware form-factor which used a proprietary Sony audio format. I used to love my minidisc player, and used it quite a bit. I sold that player long ago, but still have all my old minidiscs, including this special edition Utada Hikaru “Red Hot” version. I don’t even remember what is on this one. But I love the design. 😄

Hope you had a nice Monday!