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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Miyazaki weekend walk
From: pasvorn at boonmark.net (Pasvorn Boonmark)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 15:33:57 -0700
References: <CFE7D732-473F-4DCA-964F-6C5117248B87@yahoo.co.uk>

Hi Peter,

These are nice.  They do put smile on my face.

I like the hosing down one.

Everyone looks happy. :)

-Pasvorn

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at 
yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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