The Bridges of Tokyo
Daily Photo – The Bridges of Tokyo
Just a little bit of a different vibe from yesterday’s city.
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January 2024 : Tuesday
Jan 2024 : Tuesday
Sony’s a7R III
Daily Photo – Sony’s a7R III
I guess this is the camera body that should be described as “my” camera. Up until this point in my photography I’d jumped from body to body and brand to brand but despite moving to other models along the way such as the mark 4 and the Hasselblad X1D I’ve always returned to the a7R III. It has its battle scars for sure, but it has never let me down, across many continents and trips in the most extreme conditions and it’s still going strong today.
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January 2024 : Sunday
Jan 2024 : Sunday
Experimentations in 360
Daily Photo – Experimentations in 360
Regular readers will no doubt be aware that I like to experiment, a lot. In many ways. One such experiment, on the tech side of things, has been 360 content. Mostly video but occasionally i’ll drop in something like today’s image which was created on one of the reasonably early Insta360 models. You can do all sorts of weird stuff when you’ve got all that image data. For more experimentations in 360, click the 360 category just under the title of today’s post. All sorts in there, from me randomly walking around places all over the word, to discussions with interesting people such as Hugh Howey (creator of Silo on Apple TV) and Dr Jack Horner, the dino guy that Sam Neill’s character in Jurassic Park is based on.
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October 2023 : Saturday
Oct 2023 : Saturday
Before Their Time?
Daily Photo – Before Their Time?
Been thinking back to Google Glass, which was pretty cool, and wondering if it was one of those things that was just the right product at the wrong time… or was it more that we needed products like that to kickstart things and get us to where we need to be by paving the way for others…
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June 2023 : Thursday
Jun 2023 : Thursday
The Restaurant That Inspired Tarantino
Daily Photo – The Restaurant That Inspired Tarantino
You may remember this restaurant from the fight scene in Kill Bill with that deadly Japanese girl. It wasn’t filmed here, instead they recreated it, but still it was cool to visit, and the food was fantastic.
Tokyo Gothic
Daily Photo – Tokyo Gothic
While leaving Harajuku, I saw this person (I assume person, not creature of the night because they do have that cool look about them) walking toward the action. I still had on my 50mm prime and I wasn’t quite close enough, but they had the right stride, so I took the shot. I cropped in quite heavily in post, and then I ran one of my Lightroom Preset filters on it…
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December 2022 : Sunday
Dec 2022 : Sunday
Christmas Snow in Tokyo
Daily Photo – Christmas Snow in Tokyo
I love all the umbrellas in Tokyo! I captured these two girls that were giggling away while looking at some Christmas decorations just as it started to snow.
Have you noticed how Japanese girls cover their mouths when they laugh? You know why that is? You’ll never guess. I’ll get some of the details wrong on these dates. Before the Meiji period of the late 1800s, women would often die their teeth with a black lacquer to show adulthood or marriage. They often found this embarrassing, so they would cover their mouths when laughing. Even though it stopped 150 years ago, the tradition continues, passed on by daughters watching their mothers for generations.
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December 2022 : Monday
Dec 2022 : Monday
A Cinematic Rain In Tokyo
Daily Photo – A Cinematic Rain In Tokyo
Nothing beats a light rainstorm in Tokyo. Well, maybe except for a snowstorm, but I’ve never been lucky enough to be there for those. I probably took over 1,000 photos this night in the rain. I didn’t have any protection for the Sony A7r Mark 3 either… and it held up perfectly. I think I had on the 24-105mm lens the whole time… it was getting absolutely soaked, but it never missed a beat!
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December 2022 : Friday
Dec 2022 : Friday
The Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo
Daily Photo – The Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo
Thank you very much to Takahiro-san for taking us to this place!
He took my friend Tom and I here one evening and helped us to find some really interesting angles of this awesome loopty-loop thing. The only way I was able to get the whole structure in was to use the fisheye —my rarely used Nikon 16mm Fisheye!
One thing that surprised me about this shot was the pattern the lights made on the water very close to me. It was like laser-light painting!
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December 2022 : Tuesday
Dec 2022 : Tuesday
Tokyo Through the Glass
Daily Photo – Tokyo Through the Glass
This is just yet Another Amazing Part of the city. At first, when I went here, I thought that it would be a big city like New York, but, just, you know, Japanese. But it’s really so much more vast in terms of the buildings and the lights and the action (and the safety!). There are literally so many places you can go to and see this kind of scene that it is mind-boggling. Even though I have been there, my mind still boggles.
