Tag: travel
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Last day in Japan. My best pics.
Final day in Japan today. Out to an airport hotel this afternoon, 10 hr flight home leaves early tomorrow. 25 days never passed so fast. Here is a selection of my favourite photos from this trip. If I had to pick one top photo, I would pick two. Me doing a peace sign, and the…
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Peak hour transit.
Camera: iPhone17 pro max Catching the Tokyo subway during peak hour is an unforgettable experience. There is nowhere left to sit. There is nowhere left to hold. There is nowhere left to fall. On the curves, and the stops, we all move as one. Everyone crushed together yet totally encapsulated in their own withdrawn internal…
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That person.
Camera: Fujifilm XT5 Snapped this photo at an underpass in Tokyo. The torn poster caught my eye and as I was composing the shot this dude walked into shot. I am happy with both these photos: 7/10. —ooOoo— I just don’t want to be that person. I have been pretty diligent about wearing a mask in Japan.…
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Torii gate.
Not a barrier, but a welcoming. Ive walked through a few Torii gates this trip. At first I just strolled through, looking up ahead at the temple or shrine or whatnot. But I learned. It is a gateway. A liminal space. A threshold. Intended to separate the sacred from the mundane. A portal to mix…
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Koi II.
So I’m going to give myself a 9.9/10 for this one. Shot late in the afternoon just after arriving in Hakone. It was like 3.30 pm but the sun was just setting behind the tall mountains that cusp this town. Nothing special, just a pool of fish in front of an old hotel. But that…
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Observations and annotations.
After a dreary, grey-rain morning in Kyoto, the sun unexpectedly rearranged the sky palette into scarlet purples and deep magentas, and low-hanging mist. A postponed excursion out to the Philosophers Path was now the perfect response. The path curves along the route of a canal and is lined with hundreds of cherry trees that explode…
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