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Previous Peak Design Blog Posts:

• APRIL 17, 2019: Peak Design II (with video)
• FEBRUARY 17, 2017: The Everyday Sling Continued…
• SEPTEMBER 27, 2016: The Everyday Sling
• JUNE 27, 2016: Peak Design
• MAY 30, 2016: Everyday Messenger, is the honeymoon over?
• APRIL 25, 2016: In the Bag

It’s been a while since I posted anything about my shoots, while I have been out shooting, I just haven’t been very good at posting here at the blog. I’ll be doing better with that… Today I drove north to Kamakura to shoot the Ōfuna Kannon, an 82 foot tall statue of Bodhisattva Kannon that weighs in at 1,900 tons. While the statue is definitely impressive and worth seeing, it’s better to add it to other places you plan to visit in the area as it only takes a few minutes to visit this small site. On this day, a Friday, there were only 3 or 4 other people, so it definitely could be more packed on weekends. Getting there was fun because I use Apple Maps and generally, my iPhone works pretty well as a GPS, but today wasn’t one of those days… It started with Apple Maps telling me to turn right where there was a divider and ended when got me to the Ofuna Kannon by sending me down a road big enough for car and said, “you have reached your destination, please find a parking location.” I had to carefully back out with help from locals, fortunately no cars followed me in. Anyway, lots of photos to edit.

There’s going to be lots to write about coming up. My stock photos are doing very well, that’s always a good thing, and there’s a post in itself. Additionally, I’ve been shooting with a new camera for few months now and loving it. There’s still this crazy thing I’ve got for Peak Design gear and that hasn’t changed, still crazy about how well their products hold up! Back in March, when the covid virus hit here in Japan and we were locked down to our houses, I used it as an opportunity to take a break from shooting. During that time I sunk myself in to editing my huge backlog of photos. Now that it’s mostly done I’ll be more engaged here in the future. Hope you’re all staying safe!