It's been one month since my retirement from work started.
So far:
- I quit Duolingo after 100 odd days of continuous use (I was learning Italian.) The reason being it was dividing the day in a way I couldn't do much else, particularly street photography that I have passion for.
- Photography
- I partitioned my Lightroom catalog into yearly catalogs, cleaned up and edited.
- I started "book 3", the next photobook that I plan to cover selected photographs taken in 2023 and 2024.
- I made a 10 day research on whether I should be buying a new camera or a lens. In the end I was unconvinced to buy either Leica Q3 or Leica SL2S.
- Q3 is still 28 fixed lens and digital cropping would not give me satisfactory viewing experience. Higher 60 MP resolution doesn't solve this problem.
- SL2S advantages are lens interchangeability, weather sealing and OIS. It should increase the quality of images. But experience-wise Leica SL2S and Leica SUMMICRON-M 35mm F/2 ASPH lens (that I have) would be larger and 377 gr. heavier than my current Leica CL configuration with the same lens.
- Hence I decided to spend more time with CL to see if I can refine my photographic experience to my satisfaction. I started to intensively use Leica CL and Leica SUMMICRON-M 35mm F/2 ASPH lens in my daily street photography.
- Learning RUST Programming Language (min 1 hour a day)
- I don't know yet what projects I'll be working on.
- Started reading "A History of Britain" by Simon Schama (min 1 hour a day)
