Sorry, no personal photos to share in this post. Instead, let me expand on my personal philosophy on photography.

     There are a number of reasons why photographs are taken. Most can be categorised into one of four alternatives.

     Some photos capture sentimental scenes such as family portrait, birthday party snaps, or even grade school class photos.

     A more common reason for photography is recording historical moments or people, places, and events that contribute to history.

     Photographs are a medium for artistic expression. To that, a clear purpose for some photos is conveying an artist's sensibility, style, story, and subject choice.

     Along similar lines of history, I would like my photos to serve value to future audience. I do not mean I am pandering in hopes of being remembered through my photographs. I am not attempting at achieving some measure of immortality. I aim, through my photographs, capturing, almost trivial vignettes in some sense of how the world is at the moment I take the photo. In what for many of us living in the present regard as banal, a future eye may consider having some value. I recall to mind that famous photo of Wittgenstein and Hitler posing for a class photo when they were in the same [4th?] grade.

     When I taking a photo of a cityscape scene, in the back of my mind I harbour an optimistic notion that my photo will be utility to a future historian or anthropologist who through examining their past are able to reconstruct our present. This is why I do not take pictures of people and prefer landscapes or city scenes instead.