Owning the A7R is, in some ways, like being in a "British pub" in Japan.
Read MoreLike a Leica
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Dodging the rain
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Rainy season really is rainy season. In the last week, we've only had a few hours without rain. I was lucky enough to be in Shibuya during one of those hours.
Read MoreGo big or go home
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I'd only ever looked at Skytree either from afar, or from the very position pictured above, until now...
Read MoreImpulses
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To honour the demolition of Tokyo's National Olympic Stadium, Japan air self-defence forces' acrobat team, the Blue Impulse, could be seen (& heard) flying over central Tokyo for the last few days. The stadium, built to host the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, will be dismantled over 15 months and replaced on the same site with a new US$1.6 billion venue to stage the 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 Olympics. We were lucky enough to spot the aircraft flying overhead, as we walked through Harajuku & Yoyogi Park on Saturday afternoon.
Read MoreTokyo Station [Drink And Click™]
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I attended another Tokyo "Drink and Click" last night, and had a great time taking long-exposure shots around the Marunouchi area of Tokyo.
Read MoreCompacted
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The humid, hot, rainy season air feels compacted. With that in mind, I took Charlotte's RX100 for a little spin.
Read MoreBullet Train to Tokyo
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There's something really cool about the phrase "Bullet Train to Tokyo".
Read MoreTōfukuji – 東福寺
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Tōfukuji (東福寺) is a large Zen temple in southeastern Kyoto that is particularly famous for the colours of its autumn foliage, though many trees have red leaves all-year round. It's also home to a 22-metre tall Zen gate.
Read MoreFushimi Inari - 伏見稲荷
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If you were to think of "Japan", there's a high chance that you'd conjure up images of "red gates" in mountains, after you've thought about sushi, cartoon characters, neon lights, underwear vending machines, men in suits, business cards, bowing, sumo, blowfish... you get the idea.
Read MoreQuiet Kyoto
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As you probably know by now, I am an advocate of walking through backstreets and seeing what's around, away from organised tours of "look at this, check it from your list". Kyoto does very well in this regard – there are many streets full of old buildings, stonework, brickwork, and little features.
Read MoreStumbled Upon
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Though order and structure can be impressive, there's little more impressive to me than the sheer indifference of nature to humanity's constant intervention.
Read MoreBy Any Other Name
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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" – Romeo and Juliet
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