5:00 am Walks
I am not a morning person. The early bird can take as many worms as it would like, and I wouldn’t care. Which is why, this blog title is special. There has to be something special about the location or…
Category Japan
Right Place, Right Time: The Weather
We walk thorugh photography examples of being at the right place at the right time, when it comes to weather. Photographs that get elevated because of really inclement weather.
Do you believe in Santa Claus?
As we gear up for the benevolent Santa to mine his database of kids’ privacies to deliver ads, umm, gifts to the kids, it is hard to imagine that there are others data miners who are vying for the same…
Tsukiji to Toyosu
In 1935, the world’s largest wholesale fish market opened in a neighborhood called Tsukiji, occupying prime Tokyo real estate right in the center of the city. 83 years later, on October 6th 2018, it finally symbolically shuttered its doors and…
The Crow and the Egret
Photolocations: [36.239098, 137.968744] and [34.839906, 134.693582] There are 3 premier castles in Japan – all UNESCO World Heritage sites – Kumamoto, Himeji and Matsumoto. From what we had seen in Google Maps, Google Images and 500px, the two castles definitely…
Every camera failed me
Kyoto on a cold winter evening. Add to that, torrential rain. The usually cold, silent, brooding dark alleys become even more mysterious, suspiciously reflecting the red lights of the paper lamps that line these alleys, welcoming passers-by to peer into the curtained doors of…
Traveling to Japan for the first time – An itinerary
How long For our first visit to Japan, we wanted to target the highlights but still seek out a few culturally and historically significant locations which initially seemed a bit out of the way for a first timer. We spent…