I'm obsessing with a full frame 42 MP mirrorless camera that I am going to get. My photography game has started to become more proficient and I am really enjoying just becoming immersed in taking some honest, striking images.
Taking these photos helps me forget about my age, or my physical limitations or my lack of real finances. It is so damn therapeutic its ridiculous. Why didn't I pick up on this in my 20s when we had that darkroom.
Living here in Taipei is grand. I am working my ass off teaching everyday, but I believe that I am making a difference in some students lives and they are enjoying me on some level. Most days anyway, when I don't have to be this disgusting Dickens like taskmaster from hell.
I just watched an documentary on Henry Cartier Bresson that was incredibly inspiring. He was called the most significant photographer of the 20th century and when asked about it he just modestly laughed and said it was just a bullshit label.
This weekend I will go for a train ride and stay over night in a modern hotel on a farm area in the mountains somewhere that I picked out of nowhere. I am sure the photographs will be mouth watering, although does anybody really want to see another closeup of a tulip or a scenic shot of a mountain?
Its the shot of people that really gets you. You have a visceral reaction to human beings, and I love capturing them up close. Not to Dianne Arbus their asses, but to catch a moment without their ability to put up that mask.
Next week I will travel by high speed train alone to the south of Taiwan for a few days to take a rest and vacation by the beach which will be equally grand.
I have a great girlfriend who is sweet and honest and unpretentious but the issue remains that she is not allowed to travel with a man until she is married. So I will be travelling alone for the time being.
Here is a sample of a photo I shot that I love:
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