Bangkok, Thailand 2025
Leica M4-2
Lens M 28mm f 1.4

(the arrow is pointing left unless you watching this from a phone then i guess it will look weird and should be pointing up)

I was born in the ‘90s, Texas to be exact and my family always was traveling from U.S.A to Mexico and back so i guess since i was little i got access to many places and technology.
I got my first camera when i was around 10 years old, it was a gift from my parents, they always support me even now with all my steps and for that im very grateful. My first camera was a Vivitar, a CV35 transparent blue color to be exact! and i believe i still have it around and even some pictures im pretty sure are in my family albums.

It was a 35mm point and shoot camera with a 27mm lens wide angle lens, i remember taking it everywhere with me and i loved that sound of the flash charging before every photo, for some time i lost it and found it again around 3 years later and i was so happy to see that it was working. Sadly i was a kid and i didnt have enough money to buy more films but my parents time to time bought me some.

Around that time as well my mother loved to record everything and she still does! but now she changed to a cellphone, i guess when people get old cameras become heavy and to be honest, thats one of my worst fears, not being able to carry my camera anymore, by the way i have a story about an old lady i met in japan but ill save that for later!.
My mother that time had a sony camcorder it was a Sony 8mm, something about using a 8mm video cassette felt just so good to me, i remember she had this massive archive of 8mm in her closet and i loved, LOVED to watch the videos again and again, it was mostly my family vacations, im grateful that i was able to watch them so many times and that those memories live inside me even now i can easily remember so many places and people from the videos even it happened years ago and the best thing is that i see them in my mind trough my mother eyes which make it even more beautiful.

Sadly my house got robbed and they even stole my mother video cassette and the Sony 8mm, i dont know why they stole used cassettes but that was the year i got very sad since i wasnt able to watch them anymore, and after that my mother got a handycam! which we still have and i even used in Korea for some of my videos with my friends, crazy to see that even after so many years it does still works.