| 23 Aug 10 |
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It’s been a while since my late post, and it’s even longer since I took these photos last summer. Every August there’s a small obon celebration under the bullet train tracks near our house. Obon...
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| 18 Jun 10 |
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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 fo...
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| 14 Jun 10 |
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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 ...
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| 29 May 10 |
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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....
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| 25 May 10 |
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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 ...
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| 24 May 10 |
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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...
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| 06 May 10 |
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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 ...
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| 27 Apl 10 |
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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....
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| 23 Apl 10 |
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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 drunke...
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| 21 Apl 10 |
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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 d...
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| 16 Apl 10 |
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Work Place February 2010, originally uploaded by tokyo photojournalist....
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| 15 Apl 10 |
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You know, despite living in Japan for 10 years now, I have never managed to get round to photographing cherry blossom (although I did write about it.)This year I met the challenge head on with a trip ...
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| 06 Apl 10 |
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| 04 Apl 10 |
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| 31 Mar 10 |
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Way back in March 2005 I had the very good fortune to interview a little-known Estonian sumo wrestler – Baruto.After the recent Osaka basho Baruto looks certain to be promoted to Ozeki rank. So, in ...
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| 28 Mar 10 |
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One thing the English (I’m from England) and the Japanese share in common – other than constantly talking about the weather – is a love of tea.Last year I was asked to write about green tea and ...
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| 17 Feb 10 |
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The Yoshinkan Aikido dojo in Takadanobaba, Tokyo.This was the first time I’ve photographed, or even seen, Aikido and was for my new job. I was very kindly invited by 7th Dan master Jacques Payet.M...
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| 02 Feb 10 |
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One of the reasons I haven’t been posting much recently is that late last year I took a job as the editor of EURObiZ Japan, a new magazine for the members of the European Chamber of Commerce in Japa...
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| 11 Jan 10 |
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Tsukiji fish market is quickly turning into the photo destination in Tokyo. It’s colourful, chaoatic and real. It’s open 24 hours a day and about 10,000 people work there. What could be better?(Ju...
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| 06 Jan 10 |
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When I met Mitsuyasu Uchibori he gave me a business card that read “Summelier No 001″. He is Japan’s premier vinegar sommelier. (Su-memlier is a pun on the Japanese word of vinegar, su.)And qu...
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