2012

2013. 

How time flies. Since I am still on vacation, I was able to look back on the photos I took last 2012. Every place I go, I'll turn it into a photographer's paradise. Photography will always be a part of me and of this blog. And from thousands of photos I took last year, here are my 12 personal favorites (with blogs to some of it).

missed by naked eyes 

chorus of flashing shutters 

frozen forever 

YOKOHAMA. My favorite city and the first place I've lived in Japan. Got the chance to visit it again last June and it brought back lots of memories. Took this photo handheld. NikonD7000 high ISO didn't disappoint.

  

Kyoto

The very first time I saw a glimpse of Kyoto was on a cigarette calendar.  That was more than 3 decades ago. And when I had the chance to go to Kyoto during a long weekend in October, I grabbed it right away.  I took the 7-hour midnight bus, which I thought was a bad idea as it made me very sleepy the next day.  I guess I won’t be in another midnight bus anytime soon, unless it has beds. Finally reached Kyoto around 7 am, immediately saw lots of locals and tourists holding a map of the city.  I didn’t have any map so I applied my sumimasen-while-smiling method of asking for directions.    

like watching a film

embrace Japanese cultures

aishiteru