The spring has well and truly arrived!Filed under: Flowers, Nature, Outdoor Tagged: Cool Japan, Japan, Sakura, Sakura 2014, Shukugawara, Spring, Spring 2014
Today I was at Mizonokuchi running some errands. Fortunately I had my camera with me when I saw this dude, probably a teenager, handing out handbills which is one of many popular odd jobs here. He was wearing the most attention grabbing shoes I’ve ever seen, bright pink, and he really was standing out there literally and figuratively. Standing OutFiled ...
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 ...
Ground Floor All Floors Japan is famous for notoriously long escalators, and now you know why. This is an escalator found in a mall next to Minatomirai Station, and as you can see it runs three floors with each section at least 30-40m long! So, obviously, I had to take a picture of this. I processed these two photos again ...
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 ...
Twinkling The year end vacation was a pretty great one whichever way you look at it. Finally I got to cross of the bucket list my long overdue trip to the United States, got to meet up with Looney after such a long time, not to mention a bunch of university batch mates who live in and around Washington DC. ...
Japan is a truly amazing place. There’s a little bit of everything there; ancient heritage sits side-by-side with the high tech lives, there’s culture, there’s fashion, there excellent food, people are super nice and so damn reserved at the same time, and lots more. And even though these western festivities are recent imports they celebrate them all from the heart. ...
Yokohama Bird’s Eye View This photo wasn’t easy! Couple of months ago, I paid a visit to Yokohama and took loads of lovely photos, some of which were pretty darn good HDR candidates. However, since then I learned about the view from the Yokohama Landmark Tower, and it looked spectacular, and naturally I wanted to go there with the camera ...
The Mall Last Saturday evening I headed for the Yokohama harbor intending to take a few nighttime pictures of the Yokohama skyline around the harbor. However I made a mistake and went to the Yokohama station when in fact I should have headed to the next station to get to the best location for my intended shots. But I didn’t ...
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 ...
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 ...
Peaceful During my recent trip to the USA I was in Washington DC with a bunch of my friends. The daytime was spent catching up with the old buddies and going to a few museums around, and in any case I wanted to wait till the night fall to get a snap of few landmarks around. Which led to my ...
Towards… Something Destination could be obscure, but the journey can make it worth it. That’s what this photo is trying to tell me, or at least that’s what I feel. I was at the Tokyo station the other day and was attempting to take three bracketed shots for an HDR here, but accidentally pushed the shutter button and ended up ...
Placid A few weeks ago I was in a photowalk with my favorite meetup group, the Night Photography bunch. It was a park near Shinjuku, Japan and some of the maple trees were lit up quite brilliantly there. We walked around for more than an hour when we finally came upon this lake, where we were greeted with this gorgeous ...
Creating rich, engaging, and interactive website experiences is a simple way to surprise, delight, and attract attention from website readers and users. Dynamic interactivity like instant search, form handling, and client-side “app-like” navigation where elements can persist across routes, all without a full page reload, can make the web a more efficient and interesting place for all. But creating those ...
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
