ABOUT ME 

I’ve always enjoyed taking photos. I took film photos when I went backpacking in Yosemite in the early 70s (channeling my inner Ansel Adams). The photo here, Thousand Island Lake, is from one of those trips. Then, when I started scuba diving, taking photos became an important part of that hobby. Photography started to become a serious hobby for me when I moved to Akita in the north of Japan in 2015. My wife had to stay in Kobe to take care of her mother and although she would come up to visit or I would go back to Kobe, there were many weekends when I was on my own. So, I started to go on bike rides with my camera, a Canon G7X. More importantly, I started to think about the photos that I was taking, and I also began to spend time editing them. Then, when I came back to Kobe five years later, we were in the middle of the Covid epidemic, and I went out on my bike most mornings to exercise and to continue taking photographs. For a retirement present, my wife gave me a Fujifilm X-T30. I don’t think it made me a better photographer, but it certainly gave me more options with a greater range of apertures, ISO settings, and exposure times.