Cool Pictures: New Fuji Goofin'

02/09/26, Downtown Berkeley & UC Berkeley // Fujifilm X-S20 // XF16-50mm // All sorts of film simulations/recipes

My wonderful girlfriend gifted me a new camera to replace my ancient and, sadly, dysfunctional digicams. This kind gift plus an unrealted emotional breakthrough 5 years in the making the other day has lifted me out of the beginning of the year doldrums. The news is going to keep trying to drag me back down, of course, but we're all in that boat together. Getting out of the boat for a bit to take pictures helps me, at least. There's a lot of stuff to focus on and consider in the moment.

The GF wanted to find a library to read a couple papers for a class she's taking online and I needed a spot to people-watch and fiddle with my unfamiliar camera like a tourist. The UC Berkeley campus suited both of our purposes quite well.

I was far from the only person with a camera I passed by while walking around. Campus seemed to be full of photographers. Once I met back up with Dot, we left to find food and found the photography class responsible out on the town as well. I asked the professor for tips—"Keep shooting pictures."

Nicky Flowers - These are the JPEGs from the camera, barely edited (I had to crunch 'em slightly for Web)! I'm a JPEG machine!! - 02/10/26 - (send any comments/questions to hello at nickyflowers dot com)