Last Thursday afternoon, I crossed off another item off my bucket list; I always wanted to go see Sumo, but for one reason or another I somehow never got around to do it. Now with only few days left here, I was running the risk of never doing it, but then my good friend Aurora intervened and took me to ...
Pink Pink it’s my new obsession Pink it’s not even a question, Pink on the lips of your lover, ’cause Pink is the love you discover … ~AerosmithFiled under: Flowers, Nature, Outdoor, Spring Tagged: Cool Japan, Flowers, Fuji, Japan, Mount Fuji, Natural Beauty, Nature, Phlox, Pink, Shibazakura, Spring, Spring 2014, Travel
Pink Pink it’s my new obsession Pink it’s not even a question, Pink on the lips of your lover, ’cause Pink is the love you discover … ~AerosmithFiled under: Flowers, Nature, Outdoor, Spring Tagged: Cool Japan, Flowers, Fuji, Japan, Mount Fuji, Natural Beauty, Nature, Phlox, Pink, Shibazakura, Spring, Spring 2014, Travel
Ecstasy My friend Aurora has an obsession with pink. Then, if you’re a photographer and lived long enough in Japan, you develop this fascination with Mt. Fuji. So when we went to the Fuji Shibazakura Matsuri, near Lake Kawaguchiko, Japan, Aurora could hardly contain herself. As you can clearly see!Filed under: Flowers, Nature, Outdoor, People, Spring Tagged: Cool Japan, Flowers, ...
Ecstasy My friend Aurora has an obsession with pink. Then, if you’re a photographer and lived long enough in Japan, you develop this fascination with Mt. Fuji. So when we went to the Fuji Shibazakura Matsuri, near Lake Kawaguchiko, Japan, Aurora could hardly contain herself. As you can clearly see!Filed under: Flowers, Nature, Outdoor, People, Spring Tagged: Cool Japan, Flowers, ...
Yokohama, Japan I probably have mentioned this quite a few times, but let me say it again; Yokohama is one of my most favorite places in Japan to hangout. There’s a lively buzz around any time of the day and night lights are simply breathtaking. So I hardly ever miss an opportunity to go there, with or without a camera. ...
Yokohama, Japan I probably have mentioned this quite a few times, but let me say it again; Yokohama is one of my most favorite places in Japan to hangout. There’s a lively buzz around any time of the day and night lights are simply breathtaking. So I hardly ever miss an opportunity to go there, with or without a camera. ...
A Sea of Pink When retouching photos, it is very rarely that you have to decrease color saturation to make it believable. This is one such instance! Last weekend I went to a Shibazakura (芝桜/Phlox) garden in Hitsujiyama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Luckily the weather was excellent and the flowers were in full bloom. And when those two were combined, it ...
A Sea of Pink When retouching photos, it is very rarely that you have to decrease color saturation to make it believable. This is one such instance! Last weekend I went to a Shibazakura (芝桜/Phlox) garden in Hitsujiyama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Luckily the weather was excellent and the flowers were in full bloom. And when those two were combined, it ...
Aurora Heaven Astrophysicist, fellow photographer and good friend Aurora Simionescu has an obsession; pink. So when she was in the Shibazakura garden in Hitsujiyama, Japan, she was really actually in Aurora heaven. And it shows.Filed under: Flowers, Nature, Outdoor, People, Spring Tagged: Aurora, Cool Japan, Flowers, Japan, Nature, Shibazakura
Embracing the Universe During the last weekend I headed to the Niijima Island, Japan, for two days of camping with the wonderful folk of the Tokyo Snow Club and it was as good a time as you could have. After unhealthy amounts of food, booze, music and some more, we made a bonfire at the beach and had a great ...
Serenity During the cherry peak of the spring cherry blossoms, this place comes to live; people gather round to see Sakura, to picnic under the trees on the floorboards to the left of the picture, and there are continuous festivals. There’s just continuous buzz around. After living here for 7 years you kind of get used to it, although you ...
Tango Baby! On my way home from grocery shopping today I was passing by this place where lots of pigeons hangout, and seeing them I thought I’d take a few photos so grabbed the camera as soon as I was home and headed out rightaway. One there, I started shooting a few ‘portraits’, but almost immediately lots of them gathered ...
This was a photo almost a year in the making; when I took the first of the four photos back in August, it occurred to me that I could in fact not take one, but four, depicting each of the four seasons. The fall went without a problem and a cool looking picture in the bag. Winter was what was ...
Chilling Me Softly Yesterday was fun. Like, TOTALLY! It was one of the best photowalks I’ve ever been to here in Japan, and with good reason. To begin with, I prepared a tad too much and so messed it up completely, just like me; in the morning I plugged in the battery to charge it despite it having more than ...
The Perfect Spring Day Believe it or not, this is more or less right in front of my apartment; yes I’m that lucky. This small stream and the road alongside it runs for more than a kilometer long and there are Sakura trees (cherry blossoms ) just like this the whole length. Unfortunately because of work I couldn’t take a ...
The spring has well and truly arrived!Filed under: Flowers, Nature, Outdoor Tagged: Cool Japan, Japan, Sakura, Sakura 2014, Shukugawara, Spring, Spring 2014
Dreamy Night Few months ago I took out a friend to dinner for her birthday. All that’s fine, but there’s got to be something in it for me as well, right? So, two birds with one stone and all, I picked Yokohama, close to the Minatomirai station which is without fail an excellent place for photography. After a wonderful dinner ...
