Photography
I loved this photo of Mainichi that shows the commemoration for the victims of the volcano Unzen eruption in 1991. In the foreground children are praying in front of candles while on the background you can see the silhouette of mount Unzen. Photo by Mainichi
I bought my first film camera! The inspiration from Xavi’s pictures, trying a Hasselblad from my friend Sara and CaDs who tempted me until the end blended my digital heart. I end up buying this Kenko camera, it is a special edition by Map Camera similar to the Kenko KF-2N. It is a extremely simple [...]
Here you have another series of photos that I took last week around Tokyo. It was a work routine week where the weather started to get very warm. On my way to Shinjuku on the Keio line. On my way to work I came across a child that was going to school. Walking around Roppongi [...]
MoreLomo is the last iPhone 4 app I am hooked to after Hipstamatic. MoreLomo is free and very easy to use. You only have to touch, shoot and at the end it gives you the option to save the picture with “lomo” effect or without. Until now I have been experimenting taking some photos of [...]
Rikki Kasso is an American artist that lives in Tokyo. Because of his style I always thought he was Japanese, but it turns out he is not. He is a painter and a movie director; as well as a great photographer, whose photos I love. I have been following his blog Tokyo Undressed for a [...]
The other day my friend CaDs and I decided to dust off our cameras and go for a walk to activate a little bit our “photographer’s adrenaline”. We didn’t take any great picture but we had some fun. These are some of the pictures that I took in our walk from Shibuya to Shimokitazawa. You [...]
Thanks to the readers comments and advice given in the iPhone 4 photos post I have started using some new photography applications in my iPhone. Until now the one that I like the most is Hipstamatic (it costs 1,99$), a very simple app that allows you to choose between several lenses and film rolls. Lens [...]
For many years I’ve been fighting the temptation to buy a smartphone, but I finally caved in to it and bought an iPhone 4. The main reason for resisting the temptation so much until now is because I am “afraid” of being permanently connected, I am afraid of losing the “freedom of not being connected”; [...]
