Gion and Kodaiji

Garyoro (Reclining Dragon Corridor) and Otama-ya (Sanctuary):

bridge

Temple Garden:

garden

Gion house:

house

Gion tree:

tree

Shrine and cars:

cars

Gion lanterns:

lanterns

Iho-an (The Cottage of Lingering Fragrance, tea house):

tea house

kawagoe

For some reason, I took most of my photos in Kawagoe without looking.

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sweet stall

sweet shop

rickshaw

girl

dogs and owls

crossing

cluster

boy

bike

traffic

photoroundup ii

A taxi farm:
taxis

General state of things at Ono Garou:
tap

Just liked it as an abstract collection of lines and colours:
subway map

A moderate obsession with the stairs at Ono Garou:
ono garou

ono garou

ono garou

The cast of Tonari no Totoro, shrinkwrapped:
totoro

Small cars:
cars

Making onigiri with exchange students past and present:
onigiri

Okonimiyaki and slippers:
okonimiyaki

Tower block by night:
tower

tower

Fun with shiny things:
mirror

Pedestrians in Ginza reclaim the road on a national holiday:
ginza

ginza

Empty billboard:
empty billboard

Shrine to stillborn children by night:
shrine

observatory

The thing I often find most disturbing about the city ofTokyo is that it just doesn’t seem to have any edges.

night1

night2

night3

night4

night5

Hama-Rikyu Fish Challenge

got it!

photoroundup

A Geidai door; an extraordinarily large baby (how large? this large); a section of roof at Charles de Gaul airport; some small cherry-flavoured desserts that looked really unappetising, not least because they’d probably been sitting around in this claw machine in a 50p shop for a long, long time; the moon, a plane and a hotel; a street scene in rainy Machida; novelty architecture in Ueno; stools in the painting department of Geidai; emerging from Ueno park into the bright lights of the city…

freight

mailbox blur

I’m half thinking about submitting some work to a competition, so I went to the venue – Birmingham’s Mailbox development – to check out the feasibility of a sound piece installation.

It’s not looking particulary likely because the architecture is just too tight. However, on my way out I did get some interesting random photos just by pressing the shutter as I moved through the space with my camera swinging in my hand.

04/01/06: commission for wedding photographs

Work in progress…

work in progress



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