Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow
Taxi – Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo If you love people-watching, Shibuya Crossing is a fascinating place to linger – just a pity that there are not enough decent outdoor street-level cafes to do so. :-( For...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed
Things My Father Told Me After the blast, there was no sound; people’s shadows crushed into the ground; the dark abyss of humanity’s soul revealed by an act – unspeakable. Foul. For more entries to...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Serenity
What I noticed were the birds: the heron high hunched against a silent sky so many pigeons, too, symbols of peace, in view the scavenging crow safe to peck ground zero. What do they know? For more...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Depth
One of the things that sticks in my head from a photography course that I did is the instructor’s mneumonic for depth of field settings: F-stop 2 = 2 fence posts; F-stop 22 = 22 fence posts. For more...
View ArticleRemembering 3/11
End of a Dream C-sharp minor plays through the eaves of this house wind-cold emptiness, the ambient noise of destruction where laughter once lived. Shoji, last opened to plum-blossom whispers now...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
Fresh Noodles – Tokyo See The Daily Post for other takes on this week’s photo challenge.
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Indigo. Violet.
Robot Restaurant Floor Show For more entries to last week’s WPC, see The Daily Post.
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Muse
Stylish in Shibuya I’m lazy technically when it comes to photography. Part of the problem is that I have two sets of glasses and never seem to be wearing the right pair when I want to take a photo...
View ArticleSnow Monkeys of Jigokudani
The friendly, helpful staff at Kanazawa Station Visitors’ Centre advised me not to attempt a day trip to the Snow Monkeys from Kanazawa. Not unsound advice, but I ignored it anyway (as I only had time...
View ArticleSmile
I chatted to this chap while riding the spectacular Tadami Line in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan in January. He has travelled all over the world and, now retired, loves to travel on the Japanese...
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