About

Hi, I’m John. I’m a software engineer, amateur photographer, husband, father, son, football (⚽) and baseball (⚾) enthusiast, would-be world traveler, language learner, and a bunch of other things. I like to cook and I love to eat. I’m low-key AI-pilled. I live in Orlando, Florida with my wife, children, and dogs.

I’m a staff engineer at Airbnb where I work on i18n infra. In my spare time you’ll often find me outside with my Fujifilm XE-5 trying to capture some pretty light. I mostly work with vintage manual lenses, though I grab either the 23mm or 90mm XF autofocus lenses when I want the crispness they provide. Someday I’d like to be more serious about photography than I am.

You can find me in all the normal places: Instagram, Github, LinkedIn.

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Camera Stuff

I shoot almost entirely on a Fujifilm XE-5, with the occasional phone photo here and there. I own a regularly use the following lenses (vintage lenses via adapter):

• Laowa 9mm f/2.8 Zero-D
• TTArtisan 17mm f/1.4
• Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI-S (1981-85)
• Fujinon XF 23mm f/2.8 R WR
• Fujinon XF 23mm f/1.4 R LM WR
• Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI-S (1980s)
• TTArtisan 25mm f/2
• Minolta 28mm f/2.8 W-Rokkor MD (~1978-80)
• Fujinon XF 35mm f/2 R WR
• Minolta 35mm f/2.8 W-Rokkor MD
• TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4
• Minolta 50mm f/1.7 MD (~1983-85)
• Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 Zebra (~1967)
• Olympus G.Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.4 (1971-72)
• Asahi Pentax SMC Takumar 55mm f/1.8 (~1973)
• Fujinon XF 90mm f/2 R LM WR

Lenses I would like to own (and will attempt to buy when I’m in Central Europe this summer):

• Helios 44-2 58mm f/2
• Mir-24M 35mm f/2