top ten

02Feb16

These are the ten most viewed photos from my Flickr page. For whatever reason, these shots have gleaned a hugely disproportionate amount of views compared to everything else I’ve thrown up since I started posting photos on Flickr. Counting down from one to ten, here’s what’s spread out on the sampler plate: 1) When I […]

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osaka night wanderings (third)

03Dec09

Photo information, by order of appearance, including camera, lens, and film type: 1) Voigtlander Bessa-L, 15mm Heliar, uncertain film type. 2) LOMO LC-A+, Fujifilm Superia 400. 3) LOMO LC-A+, Kodak 400UC. 4) Voigtlander Bessa R2A, 35mm Ultron, Fujifilm Natura 1600. 5) Voigtlander Bessa-L, 15mm Heliar, Fujifilm Natura 1600.

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osaka night wanderings (first)

01Dec09

Photo information, by order of appearance, including camera, lens, and film type: 1) Voigtlander Bessa-T, 50mm Nokton, Kodak 400 Gold. 2) Voigtlander Bessa-T, 50mm Nokton, Fujifilm Natura 1600. 3) LOMO LC-A+, Fujifilm Natura 1600. 4) Voigtlander Bessa-L, 25mm Snapshot-Skopar, Fujifilm Natura 1600. 5) LOMO LC-A+, Fujifilm Natura 1600.

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autumn viewing at enkoji temple

08Nov09

Enkoji temple (圓 光寺) is one of the nicer places to go for autumn maple-leaf viewing.  The temple was founded as a place for scholarship and learning in 1601 by Tokugawa Ieyasu.  It was originally in Fushimi, in the southern part of Kyoto, but in 1667 the temple was moved to its current location near […]

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homage to lonely, part 2 — platforms, crowds, the horizontal

25Jul09

There is something distasteful about the very bustle of the streets, something that is abhorrent to human nature itself.  Hundreds of thousands of people of all classes and ranks of society jostle past one another; are they not all human beings with the same characteristics and potentialities, equally interested in the pursuit of happiness? . […]

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