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Half Frames Around The Tenderloin
The Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco frequently gets a bad rep, but I could not live anywhere else in this city. I live on a block where I get to speak my first language, the Teochew / Chiu Chow dialect of Chaoshan, with all of the Southeast Asian Chinese people here who own restaurants, grocery stores, and who…
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Five Frames from Ceylon
Between 2013 and 2016, I went to Colombo quite frequently for work and relaxation. An old friend of mine from school lived there, and it was such an easy flight from Singapore that I found every excuse to go there, really. The scuba diving is phenomenal, too. This past year, Sri Lanka has been in my thoughts. The…
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Outtakes from a cookbook
In my mid-20s I was involved in the production of several cookbooks behind the scenes. That helped start a love for food. I helped to write and photograph a cookbook for an international hotel chain's Dubai restaurants, which had all types of cuisines (their Thai chef also taught me how to cook the Thai food I now love…
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Hello 35mm my old friend
I have always loved film photography. I love everything about it. From the moment I was given a disposable film camera as a child, to collecting old cameras and taking them on my travels, I love the whole process of waiting to see what photos I come back with. Like so many others, I have been mostly digital for a…
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My wedding in film and digital
My friend Javad Tizmaghz, an excellent photographer and even better woodworker, took our photos for our wedding. It's important to note that queer marriage is not recognized in our home countries. We took these photos, and then we went to Auckland, New Zealand, for the actual ceremony. It was only fitting that these…
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Backing up iCloud Photos in the command line
I have been on a roll of late with my data liberation project. The last piece in my photo liberation project was to figure out a way to take out all of the data from iCloud. Having been in the Apple walled garden for more than a decade and a half now, I have.. a lot of stuff in there. Apple's official documentation…
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How I run PhotoPrism with Docker Compose and reverse proxy
If you, like me and many others, have started to feel uncomfortable about one company knowing everything about you, moving off the Google ecosystem is the natural first step. There are lots of alternatives for the main features: for search, there is DuckDuckGo, which is improving all the time and has now fully replaced…
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The Day the Sky Turned Orange
Today's headlines: Orange is the new bleak Surreal orange skies as wildfire smoke blocks sun in Bay Area Orange Oakland Why does the West Coast's Sky Look Like Literal Hell Right Now? Today's soundtrack: channel ORANGE I don't have any commentary other than 'oh shit'. So I grabbed my camera and walked around a bit.…
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