Wisteria is a common sight in Japan, but I took today’s photo this past weekend in Napa, California.

Posted on April 3rd, 2012 under Japan, Other. Tags: Nikon 35mm f/1.8 lens, nikon d7000. Comments Off on 藤 (fuji or wisteria)

Scenes like today’s photo are not hard to find in Japan, but they are especially easy to discover in Kamakura where I took this picture.

Posted on April 2nd, 2012 under Japan. Tags: ema, kamakura. Comments Off on Ema and Colorful Cushions

Today’s photo of Tokyo was taken from Waseda University. Tokyo Dome (site of this week’s Major League Baseball games between the Mariners and A’s) and Tokyo Dome City (the roller coaster and other rides seen above) are actually very difficult to see from Waseda, but I was more than 10 stories up, and I took this photo at 428mm on my old TZ7 (which I no longer have).

In a few days I will have a 1.7X Nikon teleconverter for my D7000 so I will again be able to take photos of things far away (up to 510mm).

Posted on March 31st, 2012 under Japan. Tags: Tokyo. Comments: 1

Jump back five years in time and I was taking this photo. That was one of the more amazing days I’ve ever experienced. We got on the train in Kyoto to Arashiyama, rented bikes there, and spent the rest of the day riding around Arashiyama and Sagano enjoying amazing scenery. A week later and the cherry blossoms would have been a bit better, but I’m not complaining.

Posted on March 29th, 2012 under Japan. Tags: arashiyama, kyoto. Comments: 1

Tokyo Tower

Posted on March 27th, 2012 under Japan. Tags: aerial photography, Tokyo, tokyo tower. Comments: 1