retrospective, stats, and more
this was an incredible trip. I am so glad i went to japan again. plus, i got to draw a deformed dog on the map of japan. or maybe its a sideways balloon.
i think i will definitely end up going again, but 30 days is a bit excessive. you will see in the stats section that i definitely started to burn out near the end of it. i think 20 days is the ideal time frame.
best of + wallpaper gallery
now that the trip is done, i have compiled a “best of” album on my gallery here. 100 photos.
i compiled this entirely based on if i think it is a good photograph, trying my best to be impartial. i worked really hard on the photography aspect of this trip, and this album is a selection of all my best work.
also, since the secret real reason i went to japan was to take a bunch of desktop wallpaper photos, i have compiled a gigantic gallery of over 200 desktop wallpapers here.
note: right click>save on these photos gives you a really poor quality image. you have to click the 3 dots in the upper right and then click download. or, on a touch screen/ipad/whatever, it looks like theres just a download button in the upper right.
i had to individually crop and denoise every single one of these, so it took quite a long time. i realized it costs nothing to share this, so i’m gonna. i also found out amazon prime has unlimited high res photo storage. so if anyone wants a wallpaper, here ya go. i realize like a huge percentage of these are only a cool wallpaper if you’re the one who took the photo, but some of them are just good photos.
these are all 16x9, so they are made for computer monitors. i am considering making a few phone wallpapers too, but everyone’s phone is a different size, so there is no reason for me to share that.
if you want a specific photo cropped to your phones wallpaper size, let me know and i can do that.
stats for nerds
for absolutely no reason at all, i have decided to make the charts for this stats section absolutely stupid. enjoy.
photos taken: 2156
photos kept: 1210
~56% of photos kept
as you can see, there are some outliers. i took the most photos the day we went to nagano (🐒), and the second most during my day on miyajima island (⛩️). surprising to me is third place, nara park (🦌). i expected third place to be the day i went to kenroku-en in kanazawa, but that was just barely fourth place.
the 0 days have a variety of reasons. on the 3rd and the 8th, i just sat in my hotel room and rested. on the 16th, i actually did go out and do a bunch of stuff. but i did exactly all the same stuff as the 15th, including going and having another conversation with the incredible guitarist kohta-san. on the 19th, i just sat in a hot spring bath for the majority of the day and had no reason to get the camera out. and on the 21st, i was fully packed for my trip already. i went and walked around tokyo for a few hours, but i had my camera packed so deep in the backpack that it would have required taking absolutely everything out of it, and i didn’t feel like it. my backpack is gigantic and was absolutely crammed with stuff.
separating this data by city is also interesting:
tokyo being by far ahead of everything else isn’t surprising, as i was there for 12 days. nagano also isn’t surprising given the presence of monkeys and my brain in the same location. but despite being in kanazawa and nara for 3 days each, i took more photos in miyajima, even though i was there for less than 24 hours.
i’ve also compiled some funny stats, and accompanying stupid haiku:
metal snake goes fast.
i wish to see them zooming,
for i am jealous.
monkeys taking baths.
sometimes i wish we could all
return to monke.
i spent so much cash,
why did i ride in green cars?
wallet exhaustion.
sometimes you dont think
about the choices you make.
all things in balance.
I think thats it. i may post more blogs or something, but i am cancelling the paid feature that lets me send emails now. so this will likely be the last email. which is a perfect ending, as this will be the 50th email i have ever sent.
that’s the trip!
see you later!
