I took today’s photo from the outside perch of the restaurant on the top floor of Joypolis. This is the Tokyo Bay with the Rainbow Bridge connecting my location at the time (Odaiba お台場) with the main part of Tokyo. Tokyo Tower is to the right.

This is one of those scenes that my LX3 does a much better job with than my TZ7. I tried this shot with both cameras and varying exposure lengths. The TZ7 couldn’t capture it as well with an exposure of 1 second or less. I needed that LX3’s 5-second exposure and better sensor.

This picture would probably look a whole lot better if my blog had a black background. Click on the image for a bigger and better view.

Posted on February 25th, 2010 under Japan. Tags: night photography, odaiba, Tokyo, tokyo tower. Comments: 4

We took our Nikko trip while the kids were on a school trip for three nights skiing in Nagano Ken. I went to pick them up on Friday night at TIS, and this was the view. You can see their buses just pulling in on the left.

Posted on February 12th, 2010 under Japan. Tags: night photography, tokyo tower. Comments: None

Happy New Year everyone. We rang in the 2010 New Year at the 22nd annual countdown at Zojoji (増上寺), complete with Tokyo Tower in the background, ringing of the temple bell 108 times, and the releasing of thousands of balloons.

I’ll post some more photos and descriptions of the evening’s events in a future entry. For now I’ll leave you with a video of a little piece of the evening.

Posted on December 31st, 2009 under Japan. Tags: tokyo tower, video. Comments: 1

Continuing the series… Ellie and I sat at this window for a while enjoying the view from near the top of the Mori Tower in Roppongi.

From the Hiroo (広尾) shopping arcade…

Not the real thing, of course, but a pretty large replica of the Tokyo Tower can be seen inside the Asahi TV Studio.

Posted on December 15th, 2009 under Japan. Tags: tokyo tower. Comments: None