I’ve read about and seen many dreamy photographs on the many Japanese castles all over the country but in the end I only managed to see one castle while in Japan – Nagoya Castle. It was at night, I didn’t even go on the grounds but just driving pass late at night and seeing it as I...

The photographer in me goes crazy whenever I see awesome photos by talented photographers. Flickr is a fertile “looking ground” packed with millions of awesome photos that I sometimes find myself lost in for hours on end. Combine the photographer in me with the Japan lover in me and you have...

Every major tourist area has its main stop, that must see attraction all visitors must go to or their time in that particular area, town, city or country would be incomplete. Good examples are the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Statue of Liberty in New York. For Kyoto that place is Kinkaku-ji or the “Temple...

Being a fan of anime, manga, gadgets and tech, one of the places I spent the most time at and enjoyed the most while visiting Japan was Akihabara or “Akiba” as it is known by the locals. I learned a lot about Japan’s “geek” culture from my visit to Japan and conversations...

I may have had a romantic experience with the Narita Express but the Shinkansen has had been captivated for years and while in Japan I clocked up a lot of miles going between Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka on theTōkaidō Shinkansen as I made good use of my 21 day Japan Rail Pass which after being lost...

Drainspotting is the act of looking at, taking photos of or admiring uniquely designed manhole covers. Many years ago I discovered what would soon become known as drainspoting when I found a couple galleries with photos of manhole covers in Japan and wrote a quick post about it entitled – In Japan...

The last few days has been crazy hectic, I have clocked up hundreds of miles traveling to various places such as Nara, Kyoto and Osaka but now I am back in Yokohama with plans to just be lazy today while going through the some of the close to 1000 photos I have taken so far in Japan. At the end of the...

Sumo wrestling is a sport misunderstood by many and unfortunately the sport mostly makes the news these days for all the wrong reasons. I hope to be able to to witness a Sumo wrestling competition one day in the future. I surfed into some awesome photographs by Tomoki Momozono recently. While viewing...

I surfed into another, well another couple of awesome Vimeo videos, this time by Ken Ardito. I first found his “Walking (in Shibuya)” video and then when I checked his profile I saw that he did a similar one called Walking (in Asakusa). Two great videos that are just the type I like showing...

So last Sunday I took advantage of my monthly opportunity to escape the big city and boarded a bus along with dozens of other photographers for our usual trip – this time we revisited Portland, a beautiful, natural, green and water filled parish that is a nature photographers wet-dream. Previous...