Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here are some photos I took in Miyazaki, my local city, while walking around with a couple of friends and my soon-to-be 7-year-old daughter. C & C welcomed! If you feel inclined, please tell me which you like and what I could do to improve my walkabout photos (e.g. get closer, stand further back, don't crop feet, look for more interesting relations between people/things). Ten photos, quite a few I know, but I wanted to share a typical weekend from my life. I live in rural Miyazaki, South Japan. My home is at the foot of a mountain and in front of a rice field. Most weekends I hang out with friends from a photography club. Often we just walk about the city, take photos, then go to an izakaya (a relaxed restaurant serving Japanese food, beers, sakes and shochus). 1. Displaying the restaurant sign http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4614431403/sizes/l/ 2. Hosing down the hot street http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4614518971/sizes/l/ Store owners and home owners often hose down the concrete outside to help cool down the building. 3. Toy poodle http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4615029078/sizes/l/ 4. Club touts http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4618097317/sizes/l/ These guys, holding canned coffee from ubiquitous street vending machines, have quite a sense of humour and pride themselves on being slick operators. Their job is to pull passing businessmen into the shady clubs and brothels in the entertainment district. I have no idea why, but some of them will often try to entice a man who is walking with his wife or girlfriend. 5. Izakaya waitress taking Maria's order http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4618091945/sizes/l/ 6. Arm wrestle http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4618047143/sizes/l/ One of my photo-walk buddies arm-wrestles my little girl. 7. Drum game http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4618055633/ One of my daughter's treats is to play the taiko (drum) game after we visit an izakaya 8. Favourite drum game http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4621774770/sizes/l/ Here's another of the drum game, this time with colour slide film 9. Watching TV while waiting for a train http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4621134433/sizes/l/ Japanese and Korean phones have doubled up as TVs for a few years now, I don't know if that is so in Europe and the US. 10. On the train http://www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/4618078527/sizes/l/ Here I think my daughter is reading one of those ad banners that hang from the train ceiling. Peter Cheyne