The street outside our house, around 9pm on the evening of May 31, 2003, just before a torrential downpour. Shot on Fuji Neopan 1600. Unfortunately I didn’t note the exposure time, maybe it was 30 seconds?
Night view during the calm before the storm
Another view of my sumo photos
The latest issue of the online photography magazine 28mm is up, and I’m honored that my series of photos of Japanese sumo wrestlers, entitled “Grace and Girth”, was accepted to be a part of it. Thanks to Rachel for all the hard work she must put into each issue to make them a reality. (Thanks also to Esthet for the nice mention).
The photos were drawn from photos taken over two visits to the Natsu Basho (Summer Tournament) in May, all of which can been seen here. Click on the photo below to be taken to the exhibit at 28mm.org.
My submission is just one of 12 for this issue, and by all means take a look at the others. Particular ones that appealed to me were Laura Domela’s “Neon Boneyard”, “Rain” by Amos Satterlee, and Alan Wilson’s “Women in Black”
UPDATE: Thanks also to Gen Kanai for a nice mention.
Kamakura rapids
This was taken when the family went down to Kamakura in late May by car, at the same time as a typhoon was hitting the area. On that day I posted these entries to the moblog which gave some idea of the amount of rain that was falling, and recently I got back the b/w film I shot on the same day. The image above was taken from inside the car, of a set of stairs leading to one of Kamakura’s temples. The ferociousness of the rainfall cascading down these stairs is something the above photo only begins to capture.