Hello! This is Quiet Aperture, a blog about the story behind the photographs I took, with an urbanist twist.
Issue No. 0 - Teaser
Hello everyone! Welcome to Quiet Aperture! If you are receiving this, it is because I took it upon myself to subscribe you to my blog. As someone said to me before, always ask for forgiveness rather than permission (well, within reason, of course).
If your first reaction is, ‘Oh gosh, not more junk mail’, then feel free to unsubscribe, and I will never bring this up when we next see each other.
What is this blog?
As some of you may know, I am a keen photographer, taking photos of architecture, cities, and urban life as my subjects. I have accumulated a collection of photos on my computer and published them on my Instagram and online portfolio.
Some of the photos have been meticulously planned before the shoot, and I always feel they can live beyond my computer screen and social media. Not many people know about the story behind the shots, the thinking process, or why I take these photos. In this blog, I am hoping to record and tell the backstory of these photos. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do.
What’s with the name? Quiet Aperture, huh?
My photo-taking process is about the moment of calm when I look through the viewfinder, having the world of my own, blocking out the distractions, and having this quiet moment in my head before clicking the shutter. Taking photos is about finding and controlling lights, and you control the amount of light on your camera through the aperture, hence the paradoxical name.
Why should I subscribe?
You can treat Quiet Aperture as a newsletter in your email inbox, on the Substack webpage, which is like a blog, or in the Substack app. Think of this as the “behind the scenes” stuff on each of the photos that I published on Instagram; it is meant to be a record for myself and to share my story with you.
If you are still reading this and choose to subscribe, I am going to cover some of the topics in each post:
Why did I choose this location?
The research and planning process I went through with it
Interesting tidbits along the way,
What I have found, how I feel, as an architect and urbanist, about the location when I arrived, and anything else I want to share with you.
