Daily Photo: Jason rolls down a hill in Tochigi Prefecture!
November 10, 2008
I’d been seeing kids rolling down hills quite a few times lately, for example at this farm in Nagano. So as soon as I saw this very grassy and rolling hill near Senjogahara Moor in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, I new at some point I’d be rolling down it. The hill was a very gentle one, part of a large open green grass area that I rarely see in Japan. I wanted to run out to it and run around wildly. So I did.
Daily Photo: Still dreaming of the Major Leagues
October 29, 2008
I first saw this Japanese ojisan as I was leaving the Tokyo Vegetarian Festival. His face had great character and expression. Before I could take a good shot of him, he started walking quickly in the direction ahead of me, thus I could get a shot of his interesting face like I wanted to. So I had to walk really face to get not just ahead of him, but ahead of him enough to stealthily take a shot of him. Luckily for me he paused a long time and leaned against the Major League baseball sign pictured above. He was happy when I first saw him, but in this photo he seems to be reminiscing perhaps about when he used to play baseball as a kid. I think this man was homeless, or at least down on his luck. If I could speak Japanese, I would have asked him what he was thinking about.
Daily Photo: Woman dines alone in Omotesando
October 20, 2008
In this photo a Caucasian woman is dining alone rather late on a Sunday night in Tokyo’s upscale Omotesando area. I wonder who she is sending e-mail to on her phone?
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Daily Photo: Magic dancing stringless puppet
October 17, 2008
October 17, 2008
A crowd was gathering in front of the west exit of Shinjuku Station this Friday afternoon. I already had my Nikon D80 out and ready in case something interesting came up, so I quickly snapped a few shots of a diminutive puppet dancing merrily, no strings attached!
Daily Photo: bike basket as trash can in Shinjuku
October 16, 2008
There is an interesting phenomena in Tokyo that if one person puts a piece of garbage somewhere, like in a bike basket, then everyone else feels it’s ok to put more. There are virtually no public trash cans of any sort on the streets of Tokyo. So the choice is either carry the garbage all the way home, or victimize some bike basket as in the photo above.
Daily Photo: What are YOU looking at?
September 29, 2008
I was very surprised, and scared, to see this photo fullscreen back at home on my 24″ Dell! I don’t know what shot I was trying to get. For sure I would never have snapped a shot of such a scaring looking ojisan (middle-aged Japanese man) looking directly at my lens. I wouldn’t take such a shot of anyone, I’m still rather a shy photographer and I only have 300mm of zoom, so I can’t hide completely out on the streets of Shinjuku.
Daily Photo: Last green leaves before autumn
September 28, 2008
This shot was taken at Shizen Kyoikuen (The Institute for Nature Study National Science Museum) in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan on the first day of autumn.
UPDATE: This photo won “Photo of the Week” in Metropolis Magazine Issue #761
Daily Photo: The best smile in Shinjuku!
September 27, 2008
I took this shot during the Autumn Equinox Festival at a shrine along Ome Kaido in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. I had already taken like 150 shots of the festival goings on, but toward the end I started to focus on faces in the crowd. I saw this ojisan (older Japanese man) pedal up and right away his unique smile caught my eye. I took two shots of him. I hand no idea until I got home and looked at the print I had made of the photo that he was looking right into my camera. [Read more]
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