2026-07-23Hello! Today, I'm determined to write a short article, for real this time.Here's a weird plant. I don't know what it is, but basic internet research tells me it's some sort of thistle plant, like a dandelion.I didn't touch it — I kept my distance, thank you very much. If I can inhale mushroom spores...

2026-07-22Hello! I keep hoping I'll write a short article, and then it balloons in word count.I photographed the car's front grille and the Mazda logo. It's dark and monochrome, as most of my recent images seem to be.While I don't think anything can beat the interior detail photography of the Porsche model car, this...

2026-07-21Hello! This is another favorite image of mine.Experimenting with different perspectives, I thought that this wooden trunk could look amazing if only I framed it right.I walked by this row of trees several times, and I couldn't figure out how best to capture the wooden texture. I used a few different lenses...

2026-07-20Hello!This time, the monochrome image is square. For some unknown reason, I chose to talk about Adrian Vila's square and monochrome photographs on a day I published a non-square image. Oh well.I feel weird taking photos at a children's playground, but it was empty and I made sure to get only the...

2026-07-19Hello! For those just viewing on the internet: I managed to leak the entire publishing template of this newsletter to email subscribers, and I just have to deal with that circulating around now...Anyway! This is another monochrome image with swatches of dark gray across the image. Bits of sunlight in the...

2026-07-18Hello!I wanted to capture how rays of sunlight can serve as a highlighting marker, drawing my attention to certain areas within this forest.Sunlight shone through the leaves and found this open spot, hitting the leaves and branches on the way down. It made for an interesting shot, with bright spots and...

2026-07-17Hello!I walked a long time without finding interesting photos. Even when the scenery isn't too familiar, the usual shots feel too typical and not worth my time writing an article on this website.In cases of limited inspiration, I turn to the Wikimedia Commons gallery map. I don't know its actual name.I...

2026-07-16Hello!This was a weird place — I'll start with that. Some music and arts building that was open to the public but felt empty; I left a few minutes later to look for lunch.These lights are not electronic. They are open to the sky above, and are separated with both glass and... some water.This was an...

2026-07-15Hello! This is an open letter to M, my only (so far) imaginary guest. By the way, I've since learned about the word "epistolary". Reading into it, I kinda hate that trope... so this might be the last one I do in this style.For now, M, let's set aside the things we could never do and the places we could...

2026-07-14Hello! No toilet humor today. I was considering recruiting someone else to write this article, but the scheduling didn't quite work out.This is a detailed image of a log in the forest. Its bark is textured in spots and blurry in others, against a smudge of green and gray in the background.When choosing...

2026-07-13Hello! I'm glad I'm not talking about roadkill today.I've looked back at all the photos I've published on this website. A surprising amount of them — including yesterday's image — are iterations and improvements on previous photos I've taken. Those previous photos would have been shared through text...

2026-07-12Hello!On a regular park walk in the afternoon, I paid attention to the light and saw this squirrel climbing around above me.Every time I go on a photowalk, it ends up producing images that I would never have expected. I got fewer keepers than I hoped for, but maybe that's just my standards increasing over...