When I went to Yokohama earlier on this year, I spent hours and hours on walking from one place to another, seeking good places and subjbects for my photos. I was enjoying it so much, I had forgotten that I was hungry. It was half past twelve, which translates into the lunch hour in Japan, which is when literally everybody goes out and eat, as if this was written in constitution or something, that one has to eat lunch at noon. Since I hate crowds, and enjoy solitude, I bought my food and brought it outside near the small green square in front of the Minato Mirai. The moment I started to eat, I noticed more and more pigeons around me. You know, the fat little birds who would eat anything from anyone. But when I started to feed them, I noticed two seagulls landed nearby. Now once those two arrived, there was no chance for the other birds to catchy any bits of food. Their agility and reflexes were unreal. I was lucky enough to capture a few nice shots of them, and let me tell you, throwing food while trying to handhold and focus a 200 mm 2.8 lens, mounted on a camera armed with a batteery grip is not easy. Japanese calligraphy reads 自由, and it means "freedom". Buy a print of this photo at my store on Fine Art America.
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Since I arrived in Japan back in 2001, I have been to Yokohama several times now. I absolutely love this town, which, on a side note, is a rather silly name tag if one knows Tokyo well enough. Tokyo has about 100 km in length and 40km in width, and Yokohama is just a part of this huge metropolis. Both cities blend together in a way that when you travel from centrral Tokyo to Yokohama, the only way to tell where one city starts and where the other ends is by the names of the train stations. However, once you get off in Yokohama station, you will feel that it is a very different city indeed. Yokohama has vast streets, it seems to have more relaxed infrastructure and architecture, and it is really spacey. There are many fascinating places there to photograph, but one has cought my eye in particular. It is known as Osanbashi Pier, and it is a a international terminal for accross-the-sea travellers. Anyways, this pier is a one giant wooden futuristic structure, and it is a fascinating subject to photograph. Below shot was taken right there on that pier. I used the sudden drop off of the wooden deck, to create an illusion of a cliff, and add a bit of mystery. Buy a print of this photo at my store on Fine Art America.
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