I have a dirty little secret…..
Ok I have more than one, but the one I’m admitting to today, feels in photographic circles worse than admitting you like Justin Bieber at a Carcass concert.
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Oya-Part 2-Heiwa Kannon and the 1200 year old 1000 armed Chenrezig
A short walk from the Oya stone museum, is Oya temple and the massive Heiwa Kannon.
Oya-Part 1-Oya stone museum
Oya in Tochigi is an hour and a bit train ride from central Tokyo to Utsunomiya and then a short bus ride away.
Recently I took a trip out there on a rare day where my wife and I’s day off’s coincided.
Featured on Conscientious
My ‘Let the poets cry themselves to sleep’ series was blogged on Conscientious. I’m a happy camper.
Lion Cafe – Tokyo’s Worst “Best Kept” Secret
In the dark heart of Shibuya’s seediest district, Maruyama-cho, amidst the love hotels, used underwear shops and sexual service advice centers lies an oasis of calm, The Lion Cafe.
Eyes Wide Open
Look at what happens when you borrow a Canon 15mm f2.8 fisheye lens from Mr Eiichi “Scart” Miyamoto. A gallery of WIDE shots.
Err..those German guys
Black Spot Ahead
To whom it may concern:- I’m back in Tokyo, in body if not in spirit. My month long sojourn in Kenya which I had hoped would shake up the snow globe in my head has proven to have had quite the opposite effect and has made me realise that the snow globe was in a…
Something about absence and the heart’s fondness
Or, My feet have become unbearably itchy…….
Asoh Kaho
Last week a make-up artist friend, Yuko Goto, asked me to shoot for a friend and client of hers Asoh Kaho (www.kaho.jp) , a Japanese traditional musician and dancer. The shoot took place at the Akasaka Prince Hotel, in the rather beautiful 2 storey old building, which reeked of money and decadence ;-) It was…
Shall we dance?
Rath Yatra
Located on the east coast of India, sixty kilometers from the Orissan capital of Bhubaneswar, lies Puri, one of the great pilgrimage sites dating back to ancient India.
Gone viral
A selection of photos from my “Let the poets cry themselves to sleep” series recently appeared on the CNNgo site.People started twittering about it, then someone Dugg it and then all hell broke loose.
No local suffrage for foreigners in japan- Shibuya protest
(Protestor holding a banner with Ichiro Ozawa(secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan) and Yukio Hatoyama’s (Current Prime minister of Japan) faces added to Nazi propaganda poster declaring that- “My rights and rule are foremost” , “What is government rule, corruption?” ,”Mama can I have some more child allowance”)
A Symphony
A duet from Brian Scott Peterson and Jim O’connell.
Performed live and without the aid of additional amplification.
Truely an aural delight ;-)
Welcome to 2010 Mr Clarke
I spent the new year with the wifes parents in Yamagata, stuffing my face and getting hammered on good whiskey with my father in law. It was damn cold and the snow fell continuously for days erasing all the sharp edges from both the physical landscape and my overactive mind. The quiet stillness of a…
Unpublished 2009-Part 2
As promised here is the second installment of the “Unpublished 2009” set.
Published on CNNGo – Let The Poets Cry Themselves To Sleep
After a slightly rocky road and a story best left untold, a gallery of photos from my “let the poets cry themselves to sleep” series has been published on CNNgo, the travel branch of the CNN website. The gallery which contains previously unseen pictures from the series can be seen on the CNNgo site HERE.
Unpublished 2009-Part 1
I’ll just post one unpublished picture from each month of the past year.
Jim O’Connell’s Big Pictures – Uchujin Video
Over on his very very cool new Big Pictures site, Mr Jim O’Connell has posted a weird slowed down video of me in all my dark glory ;-) To share the incoming link love, I won’t post it here I’ll just link to it. HERE Thanks Jim, I’m flattered.
Society Works
I was lucky enough to meet KiemTang a.k.a. Society Works who was passing through our little metropolis the past few days.
‘Tis the season……
Professor David Nutt of the University of Bristol is one of my new heroes. Controversially (exactly to who I don’t quite understand) together with a team of highly respected experts he drew up a new classification system for drugs based on “harm”, the rankings placed Alcohol far above Ecstacy, causing outrage in middle England. That…
Self service beer machine
Bumped into a friend whilst out wandering a few days ago and he took me to a little izakaya in Sangenjaya with this self service beer machine.
BNE backlash
Speaking of Love
