I spent 3 days in London in September 2024. Being the first time in London, the trip was filled with standard tourist stuff. My impression of London was that it had lots of luxury cars; food there was expensive (like 35 pound food court ramen expensive); it had very narrow streets; streets were filled marking […]

I went to Barcelona for the first time in late March 2024. The trip was mostly just city walk, tapas, and lots of Antoni Gaudi. My first impression of the city was how well the city was planned – full of grid, though unlike NYC, the just-right-density does not introduce too much traffic. Chamfered further […]

It was late 2022, that I first took the rather big RZ67 outdoor. I was not hoping much from it, because my earlier play-around with it indoor did not render much amazement. Oh boy, was I wrong. Medium format really helps separate the foreground from the background, without overdoing the blur. While giving enough depth […]

From time to time, work takes away my energy completely, to the point that I don’t even have motivation for hobbies that I enjoy so much, much more than even the best achievements in my work. 2022 and 2023 were such periods. 2022 was filled with excitement of personal growth, along with my project taking […]

I got a used Mamiya RZ67 Pro II at the end of 2020 as a gift to myself for the hard working of 2020. I burned through the first roll of Portra 400 really quickly the day I received the camera, but I failed to load the roll onto the reel before developing – I […]

2020 has been a crazy year so far. Both our personal life and the world. I had a plan to take a roll of film photos every month, but this roll of Ektar 100 took way more time to get fully winded. Life can be crazy, but it alway goes on. Spring eventually will arrive.