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The magazine I edit, EURObiZ Japan, has been running a monthly column on Europeans working in Tokyo, and I’ve been taking the photos. These are the first five portraits. There’s a lady who sells foie gras, two architects, a pattisier, a man who imports Dutch goods and a scuba diving instructor. (Thanks to our designer Paddy [...] Is this the most photographed temple in Japan? I was down in Kyoto last week meeting a Danish tea master (more on that one day) and staying at a Zen Buddhist temple for a night (no photos!). In between the two I had a morning to spare so what to do? My first thought was to find [...] Sixteen shots of Houston – 50mm wide-open. (Set myself a challenge of the simplest camera setting I could think of.) Most of these shots were taken downtown near my hotel. When I was in Houston, my friend Katherine took me to see a very special person. The first photo explains. To say thank you for letting me take these pics, last week I posted a few photos and a couple of Anpanman toys to Houston. There is a little bit of Tokyo in Mr Turner’s garden [...] This was a bit of a departure for me. My friends Katherine and Gary were married in Houston earlier this month I and flew over to give them their wedding present – photos of the day! I’d never shot a proper wedding before, and I think I was at least as nervous as the bride and [...] I am in Houston Texas this week to photograph my friends’ wedding. Lakewood Church, says Wikipedia, is the largest congregation in the US – what they call a mega-church. The services are held in a converted basketball station that seats about 16,000 people. I attended to the 11am service. Seeing as my last visit to Sunday church [...] Yasukuni Shrine in the center of Tokyo is dedicated to Japan’s war dead. On this spring day the shrine museum was hosting a exhibition on the kamikaze pilots of WW2. More from the festival. These were taken right outside the station just as the portable shrine got moving. The trick with these is to focus while walking backwards and avoiding the waving arms of drunken revelers . . . Beautiful day, gorgeous light, happy people – what more do you need? A few portraits from our local spring festival last weekend. It’s not the first time I have shot the festival, though I took a different approach this time. D700 + 50mm lens. All were taken close to maximum aperture, usually within a few seconds of [...] |
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