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Inspiration

2026

DIARY · INSPIRATION08 JUN 2026

Same chaos, different light

I thought I’d finished with Shibuya. I’d shot the crossing, the signs, the shops, the people moving in every direction at once. Then I went back at night. Same streets. Different problem. It would be easy to turn this into a neat little day versus night comparison. Day is calm. Night is chaos. Nice

DIARY · DIARY23 MAY 2026

Visual Diary: Kamakura

First week in Japan. Jet lag still doing its thing. I'd planned a day trip down to Kamakura mostly to answer one question: is this place worth staying longer when I circle back to Tokyo later in the trip? The weather had other ideas. Moody. Rain, overcast, that cool dank that clings to you. I walke

DIARY · INSPIRATION10 MAY 2026

The Tracks You Lay Without Knowing

On chipping away at a photo backlog, and what I learned about the space between waypoints

DIARY · GUIDE23 MAR 2026

Overcoming Creative Burnout

Your camera's charged. Batteries good. SD card formatted. The lens is sitting there sparkling. And you just... can't be bothered. Maybe life's been hectic. Maybe you're sick. Maybe that creative fire went out three weeks ago and you've got no idea how to light it again. I've been there. More than

DIARY · INSPIRATION09 MAR 2026

Authentic Imperfection

My goal isn’t to "create" a masterpiece. It’s to document a life.

2025

DIARY · DIARY20 NOV 2025

Visual Diary: Lost in Osaka

After the chaos of Tokyo, the ride through the countryside felt like exhaling. Even Kyoto, tourists and all was calm in comparison. Osaka? Different story.

DIARY · INSPIRATION01 NOV 2025

The Dark Side of Photography

You know the feeling. Stupid early. Still dark. You stumble out the door half-asleep, backpack digging into your shoulders, but you’re buzzing. Crisp air. No one around. Tripod in the blue hour glow. A little cloud action. Then boom golden light! One of the most euphoric, surreal things you can do

DIARY · LESSON23 OCT 2025

Unteachable Photography Lessons

Part Three: Stop Forcing the Shot You’ve been here, me too: Gear locked & loaded, lenses sorted, locations mapped, spot scouted, light and weather checked. Everything lined up… yet the photos are… fine. Good maybe? but not the thing you chased. Then another day you’re just out for a walk

DIARY · DIARY11 OCT 2025

Visual Diary: Fushimi Inari

Everything I’d read about this place said the same thing, packed with tourists, shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, impossible to shoot without someone walking into your frame. And yeah, the main path does get busy later in the day. But Fushimi Inari is huge. Almost labyrinth-like. Take a few turns off th

DIARY · LESSON02 OCT 2025

Unteachable Photography Lessons

Part Two: Finding your Style

DIARY · DIARY25 SEPT 2025

Visual Diary: Waypoint Nara

There’s this idea that popular tourist spots suck for photography. The usual argument? They’ve been shot to death. Every angle’s already on Instagram, and you end up recreating someone else’s photo or worse, just following the breadcrumb trail that’s been laid out for you. Nara, Japan is one of tho

DIARY · INSPIRATION18 SEPT 2025

Capturing a Feeling

I’ve been chewing on this idea for a while, how to explain what I mean when I say I try to capture a feeling in my photography. It’s not just a phrase. It’s completely changed the way I shoot and honestly, made me enjoy photography more. Kyoto, more than almost anywhere else I’ve been, forced me to

DIARY · INSPIRATION11 SEPT 2025

Who Did You Make That For?

Who did you make that for? Yourself? Or the algorithm?

DIARY · DIARY27 AUG 2025

Visual Diary: Leaving was Hard

Some places just hit different. Kanazawa was one of them. I can’t give you a bullet-point list of why. It wasn’t the gardens, or the castles, or even the food. It was just the vibe. Slow, calm, a little gritty around the edges. The kind of place that makes you pull your camera out way too often. A

DIARY · INSPIRATION04 AUG 2025

Process vs Results in Photography

Screw the Results. Follow the Process.

DIARY · INSPIRATION21 JUL 2025

Escape the Noise

When things get hard, we don’t always fight, we disappear. Into work. Into doom scrolling. Into over-researching lenses we don’t need. Anything to avoid sitting with the discomfort. But those distractions? They pile up. And the more you try to outrun the noise, the more it surrounds you. We cloud

DIARY · INSPIRATION13 JUL 2025

I’m a Bad Photographer

If you’ve been second guessing your process lately, wondering if you’re doing photography wrong, this is for you. I’ve been there. Caught in the spiral of trying to shoot the “right” way. Chasing settings, techniques, and gear choices that looked good online but didn’t feel natural in practice. At

DIARY · GUIDE20 JUN 2025

Storytelling in Travel Photography

There’s this weird thing that happens when you’re standing in a new place, eager to snap that camera, surrounded by stuff, people, buildings, signs, smells, light, movement.. chaos, and suddenly you have no idea what to photograph. Like, full sensory overload meets creative panic. I used to panic

DIARY · INSPIRATION01 JUN 2025

Why Street Photography?

The genre that doesn’t care what camera you’re using or if you even know what you’re doing.

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