I'm doing it!

I have always wanted to be a travel photographer, especially for an organization such as National Geographic. I have always wanted to travel and see distant lands, and do what I love the most; take photos. Well, I have decided to make that happen!

Next year, in 2027, I will be traveling to Japan! It has been a life-long dream of mine to make this trip, and I finally got up the nerve to go ahead with it. I will be taking a private tour of Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka with a stop by Mount Fuji along the way. In all, I will spend twelve days in Japan taking photos of everything, from anime and manga to Nintendo World, Temples and Shrines. It is going to be an amazing adventure! I will finally be cutting my teeth as a travel photographer!

I look at other peoples’ work on YouTube and greatly admire not only their photography, but also their force of will to get out there and do what they want to do, and I am doing that for myself. Instead of admiring from a distance and dreaming the big dream, I am motivating myself to do it! And I am so excited!

On another note, last week I posted my second YouTube video about what’s in my camera bag 2026, digital version, featuring my Hasselblad X2D-ii camera. Below is the link for the video:

big BIG changes and 180 shift!

So, in my last post, I described my manual camera system and how I was tired with digital. Well, thats changed.

I’ve decided to get back into digital format, ditching the analog for awhile. I am so happy, I was able to get my hands on a Hasselblad X2D-II medium-format camera! And simply from the elegant boxing of everything to just playing around with it - I haven’t had time to get out and shoot yet, in the throes of moving - I love everything about it! The menus and controls are so intuitive, it makes it very easy to use, and I cannot wait to get out and take some photographs hopefully this week with the nice weather.

Considering I’ll be working with ginormous files - 100 MB before editing - I did pick up a Mac Studio with starting-off 2 terabytes of hard-drive space. If things progress, I’d love to set up a network in my home with like 4TB of storage. But we’ll see what happens. I am also considering a pro printer to print my photographs if I should get some nice ones.

That’s all for now. I will try and keep my blog updated more frequently, at least for myself being about to record my thoughts about my photographic journey. I don’t know if anyone is reading this, but hopefully so.