Is this photoblog dead? Well I'm not about to deny it, it was. Now I'm hoping to revive it, I do feel bad for neglecting it for so long but sometimes life can takeover and all the free time you had to update your photoblog can disappear pretty quickly.

So what have I been up to? I finally graduated from University, now looking for a full time job that might pay back all my student debt which I finally had to inevitably break down and buy into. I moved in with my girlfriend as well and we're renovating her town house. Doing it ourselves seemed like a good way to save on money but it is taking a little longer than we had expected. The good thing about that however is that we're turning one of the spare bedrooms into a small studio. I guess that was more my idea than hers but it's pretty easy to change an empty room into a guest room / whatever. Until then I'll have the opportunity to play around with some light in a more controlled environment which has me fairly excited. The space isn't huge but should allow for some good portrait opportunities, look for me to post some new stuff coming out of that endeavor.

Another development in the past few months has been the death of my entire photo archive. I had all of my 15,000 or so RAW images on a single hard drive, never really had too many issues with hard drives in my life... In fact I think that's one of two drives I've ever had die, so the idea of having them all on a single disk seemed like a good idea. However, when that drive dies and you've got no way whatsoever to recover that data without the help of about $3500, you really start asking yourself why you didn't backup to DVD. I guess we all learn from our mistakes. I'm now backing up to HDD and DVD. Losing that many photos really sucks, my biggest regret however is losing all my concert photos I had taken over the past year...

Luckily, I've just returned from a 3 week vacation to Japan. Returned with a decent amount of photos to post so much of the new material I'll be posting in the coming weeks will be from that trip. Can't guarantee it'll be a steady stream of photos as I have about a million things to still accomplish on my plate but I will try as best I can to post a photo everynight. So yeah, this one was taken at the Osaka Aquarium. I'll explain a bit more in coming posts.