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Aug 03 2015 22 Comments

Tokyo payphone stares

Audio and visual communication.

Tokyo payphone stares

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  1. Trev says

    8/3/2015 at 8:38 am

    Intriguing character you’ve captured there, and what a wonderful look on her face (peering over the top of her specs like that). Fabulous photo.

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    • Lee says

      8/3/2015 at 1:31 pm

      Thanks a lot.

      Yeah, a really interesting woman, and getting that stare was a wonderful stroke of fortune. Couldn’t have asked for a better look if I’d asked.

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  2. Tom says

    8/3/2015 at 7:44 pm

    Hehe, that’s a stare that says a lot!

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    • Lee says

      8/3/2015 at 10:47 pm

      Yes, it does. So much in fact that needless to say I didn’t hang about!

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  3. d. minnis says

    8/3/2015 at 10:59 pm

    One of the best things about this shot is the composition…spot on. B & W was also called for.

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    • Lee says

      8/4/2015 at 11:23 am

      Thank you very much.

      Glad you agree. The colours were really quite distracting, so black and white worked much better.

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  4. Matt Talbot says

    8/3/2015 at 11:00 pm

    She’s phoning to report herself in to the fashion police.

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    • Lee says

      8/4/2015 at 11:24 am

      Quite likely she included me as well!

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  5. Matt says

    8/3/2015 at 11:53 pm

    Message received loud and clear. Great shot.

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    • Lee says

      8/4/2015 at 11:25 am

      Cheers! Yes, her look is pretty unambiguous, isn’t it?

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  6. Hans ter Horst says

    8/4/2015 at 3:40 am

    Great composition, love the location you placed this obatarian, she looks like she wanted to give you a piece of her mind 🙂

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    • Lee says

      8/4/2015 at 11:26 am

      Thank you!

      Yes, without a doubt. Fortunately she was busy on the phone, or otherwise she might well have given me a piece of something else…

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  7. Coli says

    8/4/2015 at 7:41 am

    What a look! Looks like she wants to tell you something 🙂

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    • Lee says

      8/4/2015 at 11:28 am

      Isn’t it? And I dread to think what she wanted to tell me!

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  8. Squidpuppy says

    8/6/2015 at 3:16 am

    So, that answers a question: what do 1990s Gyaru look like when they grow up, er, twenty years later? LOL

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    • Lee says

      8/6/2015 at 10:15 am

      Hadn’t thought of that, but yeah, a distinct possibility!

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  9. Dave Powell says

    8/9/2015 at 10:44 am

    This is a great shot. I love that there is still 4 pay phones waiting for customers.

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    • Lee says

      8/9/2015 at 7:40 pm

      Cheers!

      Yes, it’s rare to see so many together. Surprising how often I see one of them in use too. Although that said, it’s only ever one.

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  10. cdilla says

    8/11/2015 at 9:57 pm

    I’m all for people wearing what the hell they like – I do – but as a pure observation it’s interesting to see that the inverse correlation of skirt length to thigh girth is the same in Tokyo as the UK.
    On black and white – my wife’s elementary school did a project on Victorians and part of it was to draw a picture. One child only used the black crayon, and, suspecting him of being lazy, my wife enquired in a mildly chiding fashion as to why he had foregone the full pallette of colours available. He answered that it was old and everything was black and white in olden times. Had to laugh.

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    • Lee says

      8/11/2015 at 10:24 pm

      That’s funny. A point that in many ways is difficult to argue with too!

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  11. Ulee says

    8/27/2015 at 9:54 am

    I <3 this shot! I like how she is side eyeing you. It makes me wonder what she is thinking and what else was going on at the moment the photos was taken.

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    • Lee says

      8/27/2015 at 10:01 am

      Thank you!

      It was quiet when I took the shot, so nothing happening except me taking the photo. But what she was having a conversation about, and what she thought about me I don’t know….

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