It used to be, if you wanted to share photos online, you had Flickr. But no one uses Flickr anymore and the main alternative, Instagram, doesn’t allow users to see photos in their full resolution. Most of us who like photography use cameras which can capture a huge amount of information — either on film or with a digital sensor — but we display our work on platforms that don’t let the audience see that detail.
This is a long way of saying I’m always at a loss for how to share a photo. I post things on Instagram by default, but I don’t make much use of either my Flickr account or my blog. Flickr, I think, is down for the count. But I may try to use this space more often. It doesn’t reach nearly the same number of people as my social media, but I like that you can see a photo in more detail, either on your phone or — preferably — on a tablet or proper computer screen.
With that in mind, here are some photos! I recently bought a Fujifilm X100V as something to carry around with me on my bike (using a leather sling pouch) and as an autofocus camera to take pictures of my kid, who is very fast and nimble and hard to capture using a rangefinder and manual focus. These photos, some of which I have already shared on other platforms, are from a few weeks worth of rides around town. Everything was shot in RAW and then processed after-the-fact using Fuji’s desktop studio software (which itself relies on the camera’s hardware).
