Photographs from a small group of islands
From today, I shall be leaving these incredibly hot and humid shores for the much cooler climes of not so sunny Manchester. A month long trip that will result in Tokyo Times seeing a similar slow down. So, instead of the usual 4 or 5 posts a week, there’ll be a far more summery 2 — on Mondays and Thursdays — until I return towards the end of August.
A relatively long period of time which may result in me missing a few things, but one of them certainly won’t be this sensation.
No Toy Story-like happy ending for this forlorn looking fella. Instead, he’s just been unceremoniously stuffed into a bin bag and declared burnable.
For me, street photography is all about shooting people as they really are, not how they are in front of a camera. So, in a bid to achieve this, I try to be as discreet as possible — an approach that sometimes works, and sometimes doesn’t.
This man, on the other hand, seems intent on not only cutting out the chances of being caught, but also of actually being out on the street itself.
After an admittedly long wait, this priest’s prayers have been answered, and the official end of rainy season was announced yesterday. But that said, he’d better hold on to his umbrella, or at least make another call, as more rain is forecast — both today and tomorrow.
No glitz. No technology. And definitely none of that much-touted sense of aesthetics. Instead, it’s a window into a world where corrugated iron is a popular look — or at least a particularly well-used material.
A sight that in many ways is a million miles from most images of Japan, and yet it’s probably a much more accurate one.
