Jan 9, 2016 | Osaka, Photography
Wow, been a while since the last update. Truth be told, I’ve been struggling to maintain a decent pace of photo output ever since restarting blog operations here. It certainly hasn’t been a challenge getting out and taking photos (there’s always...
Dec 9, 2015 | Culture, Photography, Sendai
Almost every town in Japan has it’s own festival of some sort. Most of them are quite local affairs and it would be unusual for someone more than a couple towns over to know much about them. A few of them, however, are famous nationwide and Sendai’s...
Nov 14, 2015 | Photography, Sendai
A few weeks ago, Mary and I wanted to go back up to Omoshiroyama and check out a flower park we’d heard about. Unfortunately, we missed the train for that by mere moments so we suddenly had a free afternoon in front of us. Fortunately, we weren’t too far...
Nov 3, 2015 | Area Guides, Culture, Photography, Sendai
We’d been in Sendai for almost 5 months before finally getting up to the site of Sendai Castle, which is odd considering it’s, at most, a 15 minute bike ride away. I think one of the reasons we kept putting it off was that we knew there wasn’t a...
Oct 29, 2015 | Commentary, Photography, Sendai
I’ve been thinking lately about what kinds of things grab my eye and prompt me to raise the camera to my eye and take a shot. So often it’s old and weathered things, what I’ve sometimes heard referred to as ‘Decay Porn.’ There’s...
Oct 14, 2015 | Photography, Sendai
Today we’ve got a few random shots from various walks and bike-rides around town.
