Restless 40 - Recent Posts - Micro Blog
Hello.
Amazingly, I've had my website for close to 20 years now. In that time I've also been on Flickr, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Glass, Mastodon, BlueSky, and probably a dozen other places I can't remember. I've never particularly enjoyed any of them, with the exception of Flickr and Glass, which was mostly due to the community. I remember Martin Parr once commenting and critiquing a photo in a Flickr group I was part of. The group were all starstruck. But regardless of the platform, I've always had a problem with using somebody else's infrastructure. It just doesn't make sense.
A year or two ago I tried to set up my own micro blog — short posts contained within my WordPress website, but not showing on the main page. Mainly due to my limited web-building skills, I kept hitting a brick wall and eventually gave up. But then two days ago, with a little help from Claude (far better than the WordPress Help documents), I managed to build something that does exactly that. It's here if you want to follow along. I’ll post daily (or almost daily).
Below are some recent posts.
Sean.
Three Years Walking Nagoya – seanbreslin.jp
In April 2023 our daughter started nursery school in central Nagoya, and my wife and I took turns on the school run. Once or twice a week I’d stay in the city rather than head straight home, …
Four Frames From Film #5 – seanbreslin.jp
A few images taken with REFLX 800T on a Canon EOS 7.
Ten Keitora on the Nakasendō – seanbreslin.jp
With a free day, I jumped on the train and headed back to the Nakasendō for the umpteenth time to photograph keitora.
Blossom, Without the Blossom – seanbreslin.jp
In a country where cherry blossom photography is practically a national sport — blue tarps, crowds, pure pink against blue sky — I went looking for what the blossom was sitting next to.
Four Frames From Film #6 – Good Headphones, Chain Reaction – seanbreslin.jp
I’ve started making photo books again. Small ones, just a single copy. I hold them, look through them, write in them, then put them on a shelf to be read again.
