There have been lots of iPhone photos floating around lately, and for good reason. It’s a great little camera, and gets even better with the hoards of sweet apps out there. I have a few – Chase Jarvis’ Best Camera, Camera Bag, TiltShift, Hipstamatic, some generic self-timer… yeah, they’re all great. Even though I brought my 5d mkII setup to Japan, I ended up shooting about 250 iPhone photos too. Here’s a quick gallery of some of the shots:
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I just got back from an 11 day trip to Japan with my cousins, and I’m finally getting around to posting the photos. I’ve wanted to go to Asia for a while now, and it wasn’t a very hard decision to go when we started talking about it last fall.
Japan is – by my judgment during this very brief glimpse – a country defined by extraordinary contrast, a rich history, and deeply rooted sense of place. Bullet trains – the shinkansen – speed by rural fields, ancient castles, sacred mountains, and massive cities at 300 km/h. The people we met were curious and eager to share their country with us – many wanted to know where we were from, why we were in Japan, and a few even wanted their pictures taken with us. The Japanese are very serious, hardworking and efficient, but mostly full of humor and quite often absurdly hilarious. Our itinerary was packed, taking us from Toyko to Hiroshima and back, with stops in between in Miyajima, Kyoto for a few days, and Hakone.
There’s really too much to try to try and go back and talk about, so here are a few photos from the trip. The full gallery is posted here.
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