
Finally a post about my Jordan trip where I make it out of Amman! Only about an hour away though, Just as far as the lowest point on the Earth at 408m below sea level – The Dead Sea.

Finally a post about my Jordan trip where I make it out of Amman! Only about an hour away though, Just as far as the lowest point on the Earth at 408m below sea level – The Dead Sea.
If you are a dentist, please don’t look too closely at this X-ray :(
Great shoot the other day with the lovely Mio San.
A sunny Shinjuku morning as I stroll with even a slight jaunt in my step when suddenly I am stopped in my tracks…….
Pleased to say that 2 of my pictures are featured in the Tokyo Photobloggers section of The Guardian’s Tokyo City Guide.
Quite a year that there 2011, I’ll leave the eloquent round ups to more qualified writers with better spelling than me and just post a previously unseen photo from each month.
To all my friends and family near and far, old friends and new friends and those no longer with us. Merry Christmas.
Weird paste-up sticker seen in Kabukicho.
Just that.
The Lycoris Radiata blooms and I know summer is over.

***UPDATE*** There have been some unpleasant insinuations and comments about my morals and political views concerning the content of this post.
Please be sure to read my replies to the commenters.
My good friend the obscenely well read, handsome S.O.B. and all round good guy Mr Sean Lotman, writer, photographer, dabbling haiku poet and street corner philosopher has just put up his new photography website to compliment his writing site and haiku blog.
My friend and colleague Yuko Goto, an amazing make-up artist has finally(!) got her website up and running. http://www.yukogoto.com
It’s not often I get invited to a dog’s birthday party, even less often a birthday party for 2 dogs.
But that is what happened yesterday.
Not that you’d know it from any domestic media but there was a 5000 strong anti nuclear protest in the very heart of Tokyo on Saturday 7th May 2011.
Today’s quote from Goethe and an iPhone pic.
An update from Tokyo 28/3/11, my thoughts on the evolving situation.
Well, well, well……
It’s like a massage with a happy ending, I got what I wanted but I feel a bit dirty having got there ;-)
Ta-da!!! I got paid!
Only my usual rate for the pictures and nothing for the copyright infringement, but payment none the less.
On October 12th 1960 Inejiro Asanuma the head of the Japanese socialist party was assasinated by ultra-rightist Otoya Yamaguchi during a televised rally.50 years later Right wing groups celebrated the assasination and Yamaguchi’s suicide.
Out take – id and ego? Just a photo.Simple.