One of the many photography lessons we learn as we age, is the importance of simply documenting your surroundings. Documenting everything enables us to better appreciate the immense changes in our world that are subtle, and seemingly unimportant as we live them, yet can be profound when viewed ten, twenty, or more years later. In the 80's and 90's, during my first stay in Japan, I took many casual environment photos that later seemed unimportant to me. Sadly, I threw most of them out. Now however, I appreciate the value of even the most mundane. What once was trivial and uninteresting, is now fascinating. Your life is a journey, document it.
New Photo Experiment - Narrative Clip
ShootLighter is all about lighter, mobile friendly photography. Lugging around less gear can enables a mindset change to a "less is more" approach to shooting. More time focused on what's around you and less time wrestling with large or excessive gear. Recently I discovered a product called Narrative Clip from a company out of Sweden. Narrative Clip is a wearable camera about the size of a U.S. silver dollar that captures an image automatically every 30 secs as long as you're wearing it. As a street photographer I immediately saw the potential not only for street, but for wear-it-and-forget-it travel documentation as well. I ordered one right away and just received it yesterday. I'll post a review after I've tested it for a week or two. This should be interesting.
Tokyo Color with the Fuji x100T Part 3
My final full day in Tokyo combined Ginza, the Tokyo Dome area, and Taylor Swift fans. Ginza is one of those parts of Tokyo that I always feel out of place in, but I wanted to visit the Leica store there as I heard it's really nice and a must visit. Now that I can say that I've been there, looked at and held several Leicas, All I can say is, maybe one day. Enough said. 😊