Venice Japanese Memorial Monument
Hey hey hey photo people. Thought we'd take a bit of a dip into the ol' archives today.
Old Pictures
These are from December 2019, shortly after I first got the Nikon D3500. (I've written a bit about that period before, on my other newsletter.)
I've been looking through those older photographs again recently and I've been a bit surprised-- I don't think they're great photos or anything, but they're better than I thought. In my memory there was a long period before I learned how to take photos with any kind of composition, but in reality that was really only about a week. By the time I took these, about three weeks in, I had identifiable subjects and was using at least basic framing and leading lines and stuff.
The second one here is a photo that I'm pretty sure I deleted at one point and recovered into the archive from a backup. I wish I could go back and reshoot this location because the first time around I completely missed the somewhat wild juxtaposition here -- the advertisement and the Japanese American Memorial Monument. (This spot is where 1000 residents of Japanese descent living in Venice, Santa Monica, and Malibu lined up for the bus that took them to internment camps during the war.) I took this photo because at the time I was routinely photographing those scooters whenever I saw them.
Stats 'n Stuff
203 new photos this week, across the Nikon and iPhone.
Last week's goals
😔 Spend at least 20 minutes reviewing my photos and extracting more motifs/potential tags -- reviewed my photos a little bit but didn't add tags or anything
😁 Ask someone for their portrait -- took several "directed" portraits of my partner
😔 Break out the tripod and take another go at that macro orchid shot -- Tripod's still in the trunk of the car
This week's goals
Ask someone for their portrait
Find my "small" tripod
Get my big tripod out of the car