About

About Me

I’m a Chiba Lotte Marines fans, and a baseball fan in general.

I’m Steve, a lifelong baseball fan originally from Texas. I grew up an Astros fan, acclimatized to teams that promised so much and delivered so little.  Somehow I remained an optimist – “Wait till next year!”

I’ve loved watching Japanese baseball since my first game, which was actually the first day of my first visit to Japan back in 2002.  It was a Giants-BayStars game at Tokyo Dome, and I went with a new friend I had just met that day.  I began my love affair with the Marines on a subsequent visit in 2003.  I met a Marines fan at a Marines-Kintetsu Buffaloes game in Osaka Dome.  He showed me the ins-and-outs of Marines fandom, and the fans’ perseverence in the face of decades of futility (like my Astros!) grabbed my heart.

The Marines have since then transformed from a perennial afterthough to a a title-winning team with a large and passionate fanbase.  Since then i’ve transformed from a dude who loved visiting Japan on holiday to someone who lived here briefly in 2006, and permanently since 2007. I can always be reached at steve@welovemarines.com.

About My Photos

I shoot 90% of my photos using an Olympus E-3 + 50-200mm lens. On occasion I use a 12-60mm lens for wide angle crowd shots and other scenics. I tend to use a tripod or monopod during night games as it’s just too hard to handhold a long(ish) lens at lower shutter speeds.

I’m no video guy, so I just use my Canon G9 point-and-shoot’s video mode for recording the little video I take. One of these days I might get a better rig for that, but I doubt it.