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Knowing me and my curmudgeonliness when it comes to photography as well as my friend Dirk does, I was not surprised to see his little “shout out” to me in his recent post about HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography: although my friend Higashimori [my sometime online nickname] is bound to object, with good reason as [...]

(Above posted with a debt to Antipixel, whose composite from 4 years ago gave me the idea). We make it an annual occurrence to go to the Toda – Itabashi Fireworks Festival which is held on the Arakawa River that forms the border between Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture, where we live. (We’ve only missed one, [...]

I see my brother has updated his portfolio website and now has a “personal” section to go along with his more commercial stuff (clicking the above image will take you straight there). Apparently he’s been able to squeeze some photography into his business trips here (as above shows). And he seems to have added more [...]

I apologize for the lack of updates of late, truth is I’ve got other projects and stuff I’m doing at the moment, plus you know the everyday of life that has to be done (or wants to be done) as well. I figure these vicissitudes will keep me rather busy for the next few months, [...]

Bodie State Historic Park, California, September 18, 1999. More from the California archives . Bodie State Historic Park is the remnants of a once thriving mining town northeast of Yosemite near the Nevada border. Having been in the California park system some 40 years, it has a slightly sanitized feel to it, though to be [...]

Hollyhock House (Frank Lloyd Wright), Los Angeles, November, 1999. Cleaning out the hard drive, came across some scans of a roll or two I shot at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House in Los Angeles, back in 1999. Naoko and I were ostensibly visiting my brother, but for the most part it was an architectural tour [...]