Kushiro

Hokkaido Panorama

Mamiya Six Photos

Works fine in daylight but a bit hard to focus under lowlight or indoors.

Dream camera

Finally bite the bullet with a Mamiya Six, a rather obscure variation with the Copal shutter B-1/200s

Infrared Trichrome

Hugin can align images better than I can by hand on GIMP

Zooming into Spring

Honestly it's fixed 100mm.

Focus stacking

Turns out one can focus stack in postprocessing.

2024

This one's gonna be good.

Yunnan

Should have done this more.

Maybe get a car too.

Holidays

As busy as any working day with all the gathering

Making a choice

It's so hard to tell, whether not making a choice is a better choice

Reorganizing life

Time, money, energy

Desk clock

My new California dial Bubble back build has spent more time sitting as a desk clock than being on my wrist.

Which is probably fine, consider it a convertible.

More DIY watches

AF macro ring works, but XT-20 doesn't have focus stacking so it's a blurry mess.

Seafood

Jelly fish

Kinda hard to nail the focus.

Stereograph would have been cool.

Let's crank up the fire before life gets dull

Light at the end of the tunnel

The tunnel seems neverending and is only getting darker.

The baggage gets heavier too.

I assemble watches

That's why I am not taking photos.

Also my eczema is healing. For the second summer god doesn't want me to go out.

Summer

Red filter.

450mm equivalent

Good times

Good glass really work like magic.

Stable Diffusion

Impressionistic photo.

IMAX film

So shooting IMAX film on medium format actually gives me less image per frame due to the sprocket holes.

Losing its handle to aging

Zooming in

Shanghai GP3 100

This film pushes well up to ISO 400. I don't really need the 400 version if I can push it any time I want.

Midjourney Photography

Add something and change something, rather uncontrollably.

Good tool for image play.

Spits out interesting image but not photography.

It's lacking the experience.

Impressionism via Midjourney

Coins

I love money.

Film vibe with a phone

Stuff I saw on the street

Going candid

Definitely can but not sure if I did

That guy on the right

He knows the drill.

Rollei RPX 400 is the flattest film base I have ever used

TLR selfie

Achievement unlocked.

No more TLR.

No more convertible with reduction mask.

There was only myself shooting this photo.

Cyanotype

The chemical I bought didn't work so digitally.

The key is to cut off both ends of the curve, invert color, crank up temperature, then invert back.

Lubitel 166U

Not sure how to focus properly. Maybe I don't need to.

Hidden folks

Blending right in.

Film price

I just realized I can get 20 rolls of Shanghai GP3 for the same amount of money I spent on Lubitel 166U.

大阪 Osaka

宇治 Uji

出雲 Izumo

米子 Yonago

鳥取 Tottori

湯郷温泉 Yunogo Onsen

厳島 Itsukushima

広島 Hiroshima

There is no road

There are footprints left by others, but there's no a perfect way to go.

Japan Trip (2019)

Maybe I like looking forward to it than actually going.

Waterfall

Sometimes things look more 3D in black and white and I don't know why.

Even Semi Leotax

A triplet can do this. Meanwhile I am somewhat disappointed by corner sharpness of Tessar.

Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens

The kind of things middle-age women get crazy about.

Very wide and very long

Stitching panorama becomes quite easy with Hugin.

Excited looking flowers

Edge sharpness

Not sure whether it's misaligned lenses or just how Industar-24 works.

Free space

A photo stream of my own allows me to post my photos freely.

Post-processing

As long as there's good light and composition, most other things can be post-processed pretty well.

Getting back to work

The last day of a long holiday is always hard.

Dreamlike

Some scenes just look perfect if I stay away and not looking at it the second time.

Looking forward to

Trip to Japan in 3 weeks.

Autumn leaves in black and white

I like the perceived depth along the road.

My Friend

Sometimes I hope he look beyond a shadow.

Afternoon in Lamma Island

Surreal scene of total darkness outside despite the bright afternoon sunlight.

Suspicious people

Crank up the suspiciousness with Luminar AI.

I couldn't help it.

Autumn leaves in Tsing Yi Park

Stitched together a couple photos because even 100mm is too long for park landscape.

Ended up shooting birds like those middle-aged people. Lovebirds included.

Christmas and New Year

Developed the roll of Shanghai GP3 100 shot during late December.

In respective order: Lamma Island, Pokemon trading card unboxing, Tabletop game day, Cup noodle before New Year sunrise.

Parents parenting

Sunrise on June

Feel the silence and summer morning breeze.

Mount Rokko, Hyogo, Japan

Two edits of the same photo, not sure which one is better.

Leaning on

The state of nature is we are all alone. Yet we can also choose leaning onto something, thereby making some of us less lonely.

300mm

Stacking hills looking almost cartoonish.

Nostalgia

Bulk loaded Kodak 5294

Bulk loading is fine as long as they make sure it's usable up till the last shot. I could maybe treat this as a half-frame shot though.

Taiwanese rain tree

We've got three of these downstairs, all starting to turn yellow as it gets cold.

First sunrise of 2023

Last sunset of 2023

Goodbye 2022!