W/NW The Streets of Yokohama!

Yokosuka Mike said:
I've already started to thin out the camera herd. A few weeks ago I sold my Fuji X100V, X-S20, X-H1 and X-E4. I've also started selling some lenses that I've decided I don't really need. I turn 70 years old in a few months, I figure I've got about 15 more years of being an active photographer. By the time I'm no longer capable or interested in going out to take pictures I'll have sold everything. In the event of having an unexpected departure from the living, well, what happens to my shit after that is not my problem. If my wife is still around after I'm gone I trust her to do what's right.

My wife knows that I'd be lost without her so she has kindly promised to outlive me. :)

All the best,
Mike
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Going by your calculations I have a little less than eight years left to carry my cameras. That scares me a little...

Just back from two days in the Bromo Valley in East Java, to look at volcanos and breathe clean if sulfur-scented air.

On Saturday morning I did a six kilometre trek with two Fujis (XE2 and Xpro2), took 100+ snaps, and was back at our guest house feeling as if I had been carrying two bags of bricks. Either I'm very unfit, I drank a little too much Iceland vodka the evening before, or my time is running short. Being me, I settled for a little of all three.

I did the camera selling and giving away thing when I retired 12 years ago. Did well out of it but then went on another of my buying binges, altho I didn't finish with as many as I had on my shelves and in packing boxes when I did the big cull in 2012. My problem is I often stumble on good bargains (a Rolleicord Vb kit, my Leica LTM) and I buy on impulse, not stopping to think about the high cost of film in Australia or Asia and the time and effort I have to put in to process the results, not overlooking the many hours of dreary scanning and post processing. Which all eats up time.

All the above to say I still have far too many cameras. Like everybody else.

What I'll do with my snaps of volcanos puffing clouds of white smoke (fortunately no lava) or groups of visiting Surabaya's posing for the obligatory visual lineups, is obvious. I will download them, cull the misfits (images not people), date-number-keyword them, download again to my portable hard disks - and forget all about them. As I did with the last three image loads from previous visits to that beautiful part of Java.

Me, I have a set goal of outliving our cats but not my SO, who is much younger than I am but as valuable - and certainly valued - to me as is your good wife to you.

As for you, sir, I hope you will be out and about on the streets for a long time yet to come. Your candids are so much more interesting than my pretty landscapes or neat rows of green growing things with flowering bushes and palms in the backgrounds and inevitably hills or mountains in the distance. All so pretty, but. But.

Apologies again for (as is so usual for me) having skidded your most excellent thread a little sideways. Let's now return to your superb photography.
 
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Yokosuka Mike said:
The streets of Yokohama
DownUnder, she's drinking an Asahi Super Dry for you!
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Fujifilm X-T5 camera
Fujinon XF 23mm f1.4 lens
Yokohama City, Japan
May 2025​
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I would be charmed to buy the next round - or the next case. Or even champagne. And why not?

In my dreams, of course. But then why not dream?

You sure do turn out some nice gals over there in Yokohama...
 
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