I belong to the UCSD Photography Interest Group that meets monthly via Zoom. Each month has various photo themes and October's was "Shoot High or Low". Which means take photos at a perspective other than eye-level. I wanted to shoot...Read More
Oceanside California has a great pier to walk and enjoy the day. It's also a great area for street photography. So I took my Fujifilm XPro2 with 23mm lens out for a late afternoon outing. Here are some of my...Read More
I've neglected my personal, photo-centric website, fotoikigai.com, focusing more on our other websites. Our travel blog - smallwanders.us - and the UCSD Photography Interest Group - ucsdphoto.group. So I've compiled some of my favorite images from late 2023 & early...Read More
I enjoy Wes Anderson's cinematic style, especially his cinematic color palette. His visual style is celebrated by many websites and Instagrammers such as @intentionallywesanderson & @accidentallywesanderson. Photographic filter presets are available to photographers for use in their digital darkrooms, such...Read More
Our first international trip since Italy in Jan 2020 was to Japan. I've been to Japan several times and usually to the same areas - Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, and Kagoshima. So we considered Nagano and Sapporo, more remote areas where...Read More
After Saguaro National Park, we headed west to Yuma, AZ for a couple days. I wanted to check out the Imperial Sand Dunes late in the day. We didn't make it to the North Algodones Dunes Wilderness Area but took...Read More
After watching a few San Diego Padres Spring Training games, we postponed our Flagstaff/Page/Monument Valley northward trip because of snow/wind/rain. We were towing a travel trailer otherwise the weather would not have been as big an issue. So we headed...Read More