Hello World!

You have to start somewhere, so I start here. My first blog post. Mhm, this is not entirely correct, because I maintained a blog already in 1995, just we didn’t called it blogs back then. But this is another story for another day.

My name is Juergen Specht, I work as a photographer, as a technical consultant for (mostly) the photo related industry and starve as an artist while living now since almost 10 years in Tokyo, Japan. Why do I start a blog now when most people already abandoned theirs? It’s a long story, but since a very long time I was mostly busy in non-public forums and mailing lists, for example in D1scussion, a mailing list I founded in 1999. I wrote 4590 posts since its inception, which translates into almost 450 posts per year, or ca. 1.2 posts per day. But D1scussion is just one forum I am active in, there were more. In fact, I am practically always online since 1993.

4590 posts to D1scussion since 1999

While I also have a nice web site, I felt too limited to talk only about Nikon cameras or post my pictures without much commentary to my site, so I hope this blog gives me the flexibility to write about just everything which is in my mind. Lets see how it works, I give it a while.