Finding Familiar Faces: The Surprising Ease of Meeting Similar People in a Big World

“We’ve met before!” On sixteen-hour train to Bucharest from Budapest. I was having these thoughts while having a conversation with a friend I first met more than two years ago in Stockholm, Sweden. We met again in the city where she’s doing her Linguistics PhD study – Budapest, Hungary. She suggested that it is quite… Continue reading Finding Familiar Faces: The Surprising Ease of Meeting Similar People in a Big World

That really hurts. I haven’t felt it for a while. Somehow I feel like this need to be documented. The feeling, the necessary one, should make me stronger doing latter things.

I had no idea when I decided to come back and start the conversation.

It’s just a hard thing, to realise you can’t stop thinking, the forgetfulness is too slow.

What have I learnt to deal with this kind of feelings? – Be honest with myself, do not just search for a substitute, feel it.

And don’t turn this city a place filled with memories that I don’t want to relive.

Time is a beautiful thing, it turns nothing to something, but it didn’t change you that much, at least the level I want time to change you.

I don’t know if it helps, typing down feelings.

There IS a bigger world, too bad I keep walking in circles.

Panoramic roll 2

Previous roll using this camera This was a roll of Ilford Pan 100 Black and White film. The photos were shot during February to April, 2022. The camera used was Horizon 202. I scanned these photos using an Epson Perfection 1640SU, not the best quality scanner. The problem with this group is the black were… Continue reading Panoramic roll 2

Two weekends in Paris and Zürich (work in progress)

Mount Rigi, Switzerland

Travel logs are like cooking steaks, you need to let it rest for some minutes till it absorbs the juice back. Myself, 2022, just made it up In two weekends of March 2022, I flew to Paris and Zurich for some photo and exploration. What should I write? I can’t possibly cover the whole experience… Continue reading Two weekends in Paris and Zürich (work in progress)

The Darkroom – Part One

Black and white darkroom at Gallery of Photography Ireland, Dublin

I was thinking about develop and print my own film photos in a darkroom a long time. Film photography for now feels like climbing a mountain – the first half is shooting, as climbing a mountain from the bottom, actively seeking for the breathtaking sceneries, pressing the shutter or memorise them in your mind, there… Continue reading The Darkroom – Part One

Building this blog

Logging new content and changes made to this site. Feb 6 2022: added automatic translation with some degree of manual control in main menu (top right corner), for now added simplified Chinese. Having a multi-language blog/site is always what I wished. Feb 9 2022: Got a suggestion to add a mail notification to the commenter… Continue reading Building this blog

Unable to start/finish

Explanation for some addiction. This is what I wrote to myself on 19 November of 2021: I know why I am addicted to archery now. It is the feeling satisfaction when not fully prepared, not fully anchored, but when releasing, by luck, muscle memory or whatever you call it and yet the arrow still reached… Continue reading Unable to start/finish