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January – April, 2023

As usual, the winter months in Canada aren’t known for being jam packed with photographic activity for me. The two weeks in Japan were also a tough act to follow, so I wasn’t overly anxious about...

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November – December, 2022 (Trip to Japan, Part 2)

After five days in the Kansai region, it was time to go ride the shinkansen back out east to the Kanto plains. As I mentioned in the previous post, we were a little worn out from the extreme hiking in...

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November – December, 2022 (Trip to Japan, Part 1)

Two years after the ill-fated trip of 2020, Japan finally opened its borders to foreign tourists in October of 2022. The news seemingly came out of nowhere, but because we had held onto our vacation...

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June – October, 2022

It’s finally happened — the first post-covid summer! Of course it’s still around in spades, but finally society as a whole has agreed to give up, and that’s good enough by me. I forgot how it...

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March – May, 2022

Three months has past since the last post, but this time I have some neat pictures to show for it! I caught covid again in April, which was less than three months since my boosters shot and first...

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January & February, 2022

The year 2022 wasted no time in giving me something to write about, because I finally got smacked with the covid stick. As luck would have it, it happened right after the booster shot. Thankfully,...

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November & December, 2021

Welp, here we go again — in the span of two months, the world has once again been turned upside down, reversing most of the baby steps made back to normal made over the past year. Omicron is the new...

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August – October, 2021

Three more months have come and past, and the only notable thing to report was a week-long trip to Vancouver. This was the second trip of this year and most certainly the crown jewel in this year’s...

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July, 2021

Another month’s now in the bag, and I’m finally back on the monthly schedule! This month was relatively eventful thanks to the first trip I had taken to a major city in exactly two years. But there’s...

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March – June, 2021

Hey folks, it’s been three months since I’ve last checked in. During these 3 months, Toronto went through an entire cycle of partial opening, subsequent lockdown, and back to partial opening. Looking...

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January & February, 2021

On February 21st, my mother passed away from lung cancer. After a difficult seven-month fight, she passed in her sleep in the early morning. As with every other aspect of life, covid has complicated...

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November & December, 2020

In a typical year, the cold weather alone would’ve been enough to drastically reduce my interest in taking photos. Throw in a covid lockdown on top of that, and all remaining interest to take photos...

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October, 2020

October was the month for Autumn colours, which is one of the few fun activities that aren’t cancelled. We were determined to get more out of Ontario’s natural treasures this year, so we triple-dipped...

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September, 2020

September was a quiet month for photo-taking. I suppose the more time I take photos for work, the less I yearn to take photos for fun, but really that’s just a cop-out excuse. Let’s go over what...

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August, 2020

We were less active in August than July, partly because of work, and partly because of a gratuitous time spent on the Xenoblade Chronicles epilogue (a game that slightly overstayed its welcome). We...

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July, 2020

July has been a good month — well, as good of a month as it can be in a global pandemic. There was a lot less languishing at home, which I am very happy about. This month has seen record-breaking...

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Japan Trip 2019: Tokyo

As we took our last bullet train ride of the trip back to Tokyo for the last visit leg of the trip, both of us were a bit relieved. Like the end of a school field trip, we made it to the coveted free...

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Japan Trip 2019: Kobe & Takayama

After Hiroshima, it was time to head east. The trip had been good thus far — the weather had been mostly cooperative and we had checked off a lot major tourist spot off of the list. From here on out,...

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Japan Trip 2019: Miyajima & Hiroshima

After four full days in the Kansai region, we packed up our bags and rode the bullet train to Hiroshima. I really didn’t know that much about the region besides the food, Itsukushima Shrine, the...

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Japan Trip 2019: Kyoto

Having been satisfied with out extensive tour of Tokyo on our previous trip, Kyoto is naturally my most anticipated destination on this trip. Yet despite the reputation of the city as a cultural gem,...

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