Uchujin -The Blog

At the weekend I was assistant/2nd photographer to James O’Connell (there’s a good Irish name, padre) at a wedding.
It was in a beautiful university chapel here in Tokyo. During the ceremony, the priest only wanted one photographer in the room , so as not to disrupt proceedings too much, so I was left “back stage”………..

It’s not often you get to hang out back stage in a church and I knew that I wouldn’t be able (for obvious reasons) be able to publish any of the other photographs I took that day, so I took the oportunity to take a few of the shadowy world  behind the scenes. Read more…

On the night I shot the “I believe in magic (pt2)” picture I also shot some natural light shots of the model Nami.
This was one of my favorites, something about the serious look in her eyes.

The astute among you will have noticed a slight change in the blog layout and feel, the even more astute will have noticed a change in the address.
If you have arrived here from the old address you’ll definitely have noticed.
I have finally moved the blog over to a self hosted wordpress installation, which was relatively painless (except for blogspots refusal to handle 301 requests properly).
I hope everything is working (fingers crossed).
Expect to see tweaks and changes over the next week as I fine tune this much more powerful system.

That concludes this largely pointless public service announcement.

Another shot from my series “I believe in magic”.
(see another HERE)
This time thanks goes to the model, the lovely Nami, who I will miss a lot when she leaves for Canada at the end of the week.

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Last weekend, after 3 years in Japan, I finally succumbed and visited Kyoto, the Japan of guidebooks and western imaginations.
Well, if a dear friend and his girlfriend invite you to stay at a 500 year old soba restaurant that supplies soba to the emperor of Japan and another dear friend will also be staying there on his birthday weekend, what else can you do?

Hit ‘more’ for, well, more ramblings and some photos………
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‘The Tokyo Reporter‘, a fantastic blog about the darker and more salubrious aspects of life in Japan is using one of my pictures (taken at the FCCJ during the authors talk about the book) in an article about Jake Adelstein, the author of ‘Tokyo Vice’ a book about the authors 12 year stint as a crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shinbun.
Read the article and see my picture here:-

http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2009/11/11/tokyo-vice-author-was-offered-500000-to-cut-liver-transplant-scoop/

Had a lovely hungover day out in Ogose in Saitama with Falsalama and his lovely girlfriend recently.
A beautiful wood with several waterfalls.
Just what the doctor ordered, fresh deep lungfuls of air and nature weaving her calming spell on me.
Of course, I managed to find a little darkness in all that beauty, as is the uchujin way.
Hit the ‘more’ link for…..er…….more ;-)

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