I feel like I have to introduce myself. I am your ordinary guy on the street. You can walk pass me and chances are you'll never give me a second look. In fact, what sets me apart is my ordinariness. I do have a passion though, and that is computers and photography. I like computers, building them in fact and photography specifically Infra-red and near Infra-red photography. This blog aims to share my hobbies with my friends, both existing and new potential friends.
The title of the blog I feel says it all. It is a statement against being infatuated with "brands".
The title owes from an observation I made when watching Gordon Ramsay in a cooking show. I bet you can put almost anyone in a state of the art kitchen, complete with everything you can dream of and pit that person against Gordon Ramsay armed with a bunsen burner, a set of second hand pots and pans and a few dollar store spatulas, and still Mr. Ramsay will cook circles around them. So I came to realize that it is not the pots and pans that matter, it's the cook.
I have been anti-brand, in a way. I built my own computer and I shoot with a second hand Alpha 300 that most people would not even consider using but guess what....... my computer works great and I have taken photographs that a lot of my friends with Nikons and Canons cannot and would not even try duplicating. So yeah, the cook matter.
Like I said this blog is a journey through my passion and if you like what you read then welcome aboard
The Shadow Man
