The Journal of Fine Imagery is writ­ten and pro­duced by Will Wiriawan.

Photography is a multi-discipline prac­tice that involves art, sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy and phi­los­o­phy. It is also a never-ending vision­ary con­struct, much like a poet in a visual form whose still­ness is vibrant with mean­ings beyond words.

Mastering a pho­to­graphic skill goes beyond know­ing your cam­era, or know­ing your object of pas­sion. It’s an end­less jour­ney, the kind that when you get some­where, you real­ize that you need to pack your bag again and keep mov­ing to the next des­ti­na­tion. It’s not the des­ti­na­tion that keeps you going, but rather the joy of the journey.

This jour­nal is a per­sonal doc­u­men­ta­tion of that journey.

Like a soul­ful vaca­tion, trav­el­ing to a new place means plenty of sur­prises; for the strangers we meet, the sun, the rain and the rain­bow that would ren­der our vaca­tion pic­ture per­fect. The jour­ney is uncer­tain, but one thing is: not know­ing how does not mean we do not know where we want to be.

The jour­ney is long, but our time is short; one would hope that this jour­nal can carry on a tra­di­tion of shar­ing, of pas­sions, of dreams, and excel­lence, to learn and edu­cate this hun­gry soul.

This is the very pur­pose of our cre­ative jour­ney: we learn things and pass it on.

What you’ll find here.

This is an ongo­ing endeavor of dis­cov­er­ing and mas­ter­ing the craft of pho­tog­ra­phy; a dis­ci­pline that invokes our curi­ous nature on mul­ti­ple lev­els, a skill that inter­twines with art, sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy and philosophy.

Beside orig­i­nal writ­ings on said fields, you will also find links, com­men­taries and quotes on the Opinions Page, Postscripts, Quotes. Also, from time to time, a pic­ture or two would make their way to the Photostream page where I col­lect inter­est­ing stuffs that I’d like to show you, the pho­tos here often are taken by my iPhone.

A grow­ing col­lec­tion of wall­pa­pers or desk­top art are on the Goodies page. You can down­load, use, play and share it what­ever you want it, so long you don’t harm or charge oth­ers to pay for it. No credit is needed, just pass it along.

And when you run out of things to read, the Archive is where you can find the entire entries, all in its shame and glory.

On the other hand…

If you are here for PORTFOLIO — the lit­tle out­let my pho­tog­ra­phy prac­tice goes by, the bio page can be found here. If you are curi­ous about more geeky stuffs:

This web­site runs on WordPress with a heav­ily mod­i­fied tem­plate by Graph Paper Press. I tried to avoid using plug-ins and failed. The add-on that I use, or how I deal with things on the back­end can be found in this post.

Disclosure

Because they make beau­ti­ful, thought­ful & use­ful prod­ucts that make my life eas­ier and very enjoy­able, I almost exclu­sively use Mac.

I own and use Canon gears as my pro­fes­sional tool, not because I’m a fanatic, but because my first cam­era was a Canon and all of my lenses are Canon, I’m mar­ried with­out know­ing the bride that time, so I have to deal with her.

I con­duct work­shops, sem­i­nars and engage in speak­ing arrange­ments from time to time, and I often speak about Apple’s or Canon’s prod­ucts, I do so because that’s what I know well. I don’t get paid by those com­pa­nies but I do get perks like early tests of upcom­ing prod­ucts, or not-for-resale indi­vid­ual soft­ware licenses.

This site is a reg­is­tered affil­i­ate with Amazon, iTunes & Graph Paper Press, I get a lit­tle kick­back for every pur­chase you make from the link here. I will only rec­om­mend stuffs that I use myself or find inter­est­ing, I would never write about some­thing that I don’t find cool or any­thing less than a mil­lion dollar.

Mac Software

• Notational Velocity
• Dropbox
• Ulysses 2
• MarsEdit
• Aperture 3
• Pixelmator
• PTLens
• ImageOptim
• iMe­dia Browser
• Transmit
• Burn
• Quicksilver
• ShiftIt
• Hidden

Artworks

The Journal uses the Gudea & Noticia font fam­i­lies pro­vided free of charge by Google Webfonts.

Social icons & the fine paper tex­ture are gen­er­ously pro­vided by Icon Dock and arpad­stock.

The Stylish Web Ribbon is cre­ated & gen­er­ously given by Akif Selamoglu.

Santa cap for the christ­mas edi­tion logo is down­loaded from Iconspedia.com cour­tesy of Aha-Soft.

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