daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
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For whatever reason, Anko has really taken a fancy to this bit of packing paper. So cute! 😄📦
Mariko baked this beautiful loaf of sourdough bread today. I can’t wait to gobble it up by making yummy sandwiches and toasts! 🍞😋
To add some color to my Hobonichi sketches, I made the switch from highlighters to a set of Staedtler watercolor pencils. While they look great used dry like standard colored pencils, they get really fun when you add water with a brush to blend the colors together. Really neat set! 🖌️📖
I bought this new TTArtisan 23mm f/1.4 lens for my Fujifilm cameras. I had been missing the 23mm field of view (~35mm full-frame equivalent) from my old X100T days, so I decided to test this one out. Manual focus is no problem for me, and I love that the f/1.4 maximum aperture lets in plenty of light and renders a lovely shallow depth of field. The photo above was taken at roughly f/1.8, so there’s even more blur available wide open. My 27mm and 35mm lenses are still favorites, but for under $100 USD, this TTArtisan 23mm is hard to beat! 📸
Since I go through so much glue tape pasting photos into my Hobonichi, I switched to a Tombow MONO tape runner for its higher capacity and cheap refills. What’s funny is that the refill is practically the exact same size as the full unit. At least we’re saving a tiny bit of plastic, right? 😅✨
I bought a couple of new inks from JetPens recently. I’d been having issues with my old Iroshizuku Chiku-rin ink being too wet and bleeding through the Tomoe River paper in my Hobonichi. A little research pointed me toward Diamine Meadow (green) and Asa Blue, which run drier and suit Tomoe River paper much better. I tried them out using my Pilot Metropolitans (F and M nibs), and they perform wonderfully with no bleed-through at all. So glad I made the switch! 🖋️✨
Tonight Bay and I went to AFS Cinema to watch The History of Concrete. It was funny and I highly recommend it! The photo (taken by Bay) is of me pointing out my favorite movie of all time, Diva, which we had re-watched here a few years ago. In my excitement, I didn’t realize that my second favorite movie (Round Midnight) was right behind my finger! 🎬🍿
