Entry no. 185 — Thu, Oct 1 · 05:42 local

— field notes, from wherever

Jorge Bustamante. Photographer, traveler, engineer, extreme-sports wanna-be. This site is the logbook — dated, imperfect, mostly honest. I ship software between flights and shoot the parts worth remembering.

~ jbshooting since 2019 · A7R III + DJI Mavic Pro 4
Maldives, first light
first light, glass waterApr 15 · 05:42 · f2.8
wanna-besurfer · since '95
Ch. 01 — arrivalcurrentlyPrague · CZscroll for log ↓
02· who, roughlyoct '26

Jorge
as told by Jorge

Jorge, self-portraitFig. 02 — self-portrait, elevator, Lisbon '24
Free as the waves.

I'm Jorge.. a software engineer for 10+ years, building products for clients from Prague and wherever the wifi holds. Outside of work I'm in the ocean: surfing badly, diving, and shooting the things I'd want to remember.

The laptop comes on every trip, so the camera does too. I shoot what I'd want to keep, not what looks good on a feed, and sometimes people pay me to bring it along.

The “wanna-be” in my bio is real. I surf badly, with joy. I dive until the fish get bored of me. I pretend to know what the focus ring does.

  • 42countries
  • 186surf sessions
  • 42dives
  • 7years shooting
  • 2cameras
  • ∞wrong turns
05:42
Avg. wake-up
2.3kg
Camera on body
04
Boards owned
CZ
Currently
03· photographs62 plates

A long look,
not a scroll

The grid is out. Photographs arrive in pairs and triptychs, paced like a print spread. Each one gets a caption because it earned one.

Giant clam with a blue mantle on a coral reef
Pl. 02 · giant clam · reef
Aerial view of a sandbar and turquoise water
Pl. 05 · sandbar · from above
Ancient standing stones on green grass under clouds
Pl. 06 · standing stones
Stone statues in a jungle temple garden
Pl. 07 · temple garden
Tattooed swimmer diving into dark water
Pl. 08 · ink + salt
Surfer in a black rash vest riding a teal board along a blue wave
Pl. 12 · trim
Dirt bike rider kicking up dust on a track
Pl. 13 · dust + hubris
“The water remembers you even when the map has moved on.”
— log 184, april
04· atlasnot to scale

42 countries,
give or take a visa

visitedlived in— flights
Lima
Mexico City
Istanbul
Tokyo
Patagonia
Malé
Bali
Prague
not to scale. never to scale.

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05· the outside partself-certified

Extreme sports
(ish)

Rankings are unofficial. Self-certified. The judges are waves I do not know personally.

Surfing
surf

Paddled out, got humbled

186sessions
4boards
2reef cuts

I go until the fear stops being a thought and becomes homework. That's the session.

Diving
dive

Breathe slower

42dives
28mdeepest
1eel

Open Water, not Advanced. I stop when the fish do.

Moto
moto

Dirt + hubris

12rides
3falls

The footage looks better than the riding feels. That's the deal.

00:00since last bruise10+yrs in the ocean0sponsorships (fine)— keep going
06· send a postcardi read all of them
open forthe good ones · 2026postcard · from wherever I am

Say hi —
don't say
circle back.

— Jorge
where to find me
01@jo_bntemostly waterIG →02@jo_bnteopinions, quietlyTH →03@jobntewhen the light is weirdTT →04in/jobntefor boring but necessary thingsLI →
send a letterjobnte12@gmail.com
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