My Own Biggest Fan

My good friend Wil Murray just won the runner-up prize in the 10th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. We’re all so proud of you, Wil!

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I have begun taking pictures once again with my medium format film camera. I’ve taken a few pics in black and white, but I’ve finally gotten around to colour shots. While looking for images and inspiration I came across this set by Flickr user Oscar*. Beautiful. This is everything I loved about living in Japan, and everything I love about high quality film photography. I hope to go back soon.

I took my Mamiya when I lived there but I failed to use it even once. There are so many regrets associated with that time that I can’t even begin to relate them. Despite the difficulties I faced when I lived there almost two years ago, (I can hardly believe it’s been that long. I can transport myself back within seconds.) It gave me so much in return for what I had to put into it. Because of this, I have a deep love for the country.

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The fact that I am much more proud of this photo.

Which has 9 views as of this writing.

To this photo.

Which has 140 views as of this writing.

Shows that either I have poor taste in even my own photos, or I have goals not in line with pleasing the hoi-polloi.

Obviously I’d rather think the latter, so I’ll leave it at that.

Today, I deleted any photo on Flickr that I would not show in a fine art setting. I also created a few sets to catagorize the photos in a similar way to the system I have in my head.