Category: Photo Stories

Articles that looks at some photos and discusses some details.

Exploring Dazaifu Japan

Street photography is that mysterious style of photography that can mean so much while showing so little. I can only look at the masters, wondering what magic they possess. I have to be honest. It’s hard. Before really getting into it a year ago, I thought it was just going around, taking pictures of people…
A Day Of Travel

Airports and flying are my least favorite parts of going to Japan. It’s not that I don’t like airports or flying. It’s when your flight gets delayed, causing you to miss your next flight, which forces you to have to take a shuttle to a completely different airport an hour away, only to ride on…
Lost In The Woods – A7r

As I’ve been getting ready to leave for Japan next week, I was sifting through some of my old photos from last year that I’ve never published and found this shot. My wife and I found this cool little bamboo forest growing naturally near Magaribuchi Dam Park in nowhere. It was very peaceful and undisturbed,…
Elephant Seals – X100T

While driving home from San Francisco a few weeks ago, my wife and I stopped by that spot where the elephant seals hang out just outside of Big Sur. These things were everywhere, spread out miles in each direction. That’s good since they were very endangered at one point, which I understand. These are probably…
Griffith Observatory And The X100T

One of the popular places you’ll end up going to if you ever come to Los Angeles is Griffith Observatory. I still like going here even though it’s crowded with tourists. It didn’t use to be this way, or at least not as bad. But now, that thing is happening, and if something is free,…
Walt Disney Concert Hall With The A7r

I brought along the A7r to shoot around Downtown Los Angeles. I haven’t really shot down here since my 5Dmkii days and wanted to start getting some updated shots with my newer gear. I also didn’t have a lens really wide enough on my Fuji to pull this off.
This Is What Happens When You Give A Four-Year-Old The X100T

As a fun little experiment, I handed the Fuji X100T to my four-year-old niece to get her perspective on the world. Interestingly, I didn’t have to explain anything to her; she just picked it up and knew exactly what to do, having no experience with a camera like this. What’s even more interesting is that…
Fuji X-T1 Sunset At Redondo Beach

I recently added the Fuji X-T1 to my addition of cameras to cherish and love. I’m a camera whore, I know, but I really wanted to get into Fuji lenses to see what they’re like. And a ton of sales are going on with lenses and bodies, so I leaped with the plan to sell it when…
RNI Film Presets At The Beach

I recently picked up the RNI All Films V3.0 Lightroom presets by Really Nice Images and wanted to try them out on some beach photos I took in Huntington last weekend. I’ll post more photos with these throughout the next few weeks, but my first impressions are pretty good. Usually, I think most presets are not great…
First Photo Processed With Iridient 3 And It Is Sharp!

This is my first photo to be processed with Iridient Developer 3. I finally bit the bullet and bought it after playing with the beta for the last few months. There are many different things this software does that I’m still getting used to, and I want to have it figured out before going into…