From a photowalk I did this week.
Mamiya 645AFDii
Mamiya ZD Digital Back
Mamiya 80mm AF f/2.8
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We are all fine. I will write a full account of the day when I have the time. Right now we are all at home, safe and well but with the threat of power cuts tonight as the power may be in short supply from the shutdown of the nuclear reactors... one of which, according to a govt source, is now officially in meltdown.
Very scary day yesterday. When you go outside to get away from the flat and the seat you are sat on the park is jerking violently around... that's scary and I have never had that experience here despite having had many quakes since we moved here.
Up north it is awful. All our family up north are safe but whole towns - many of which I have visited in the past - have been swept away. The TV makes for heartbreaking viewing. As soon as it is sensible to do so, I will be volunteering to help in the affected areas.
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Photos from the Sayonara Nukes anti-nuclear march in Tokyo which, by my reckoning, attracted at least 60,000 people... including myself, the wife and our three kids. This shot was made from the top of a chain-link fence I climbed up onto, at the main gathering point before we set off on the march which was, ironically, in the car-park of the hotel my brother-in-law manages: Nihon Seinenkan in Sendagaya. That made me feel better about climbing the fence :-)
Full gallery of about 100+pics at the link below.
japanorama.co.uk/2011/09/19/anti-nuclear-demonstration-to...
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March 20th 2011
Kamakura has some amazing shrines and none more so than the very Miyazaki-esque "Zeniarai-benten".
Set in the nap of a hill, you reach Zeniarai through a tunnel carved through the solid rock of the hillside, much like Chiyo reached the parallel world of the bath-houses and spirits in Hayao Miyazaki's animated classic, 'Spirited Away'.
A lovely, calm, relaxing, spiritual spot for my family and my friend, Sam [holidaying with us from the UK for the whole of March].
This was shot in the area at the very back of the shrine, where one washes one's money in little baskets. The shrine is dedicated to gods of prosperity.
Calm, cool, almost silent.... diginified and restrained.
Nikon D700
Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 Ai
Cropped to a square in Photoshop
alfiegoodrich.com/2011/03/japan-after-the-quake-part-1/
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Getting back into editing and will be posting a lot of work shot over the past couple of weeks.
We left Tokyo for a week on the 17th March, partly to help my friend Sam from the UK get something of a normal holiday out of his visit to us. Partly to escape the cabin-fever we were succumbing to in our small flat in Tokyo, which was swaying around like a stick of bamboo in a stiff breeze with all the aftershocks in the week immediately after the quake.
We spent a lovely week with Yim in Zushi, driving around the local area to show Sam some sights.
Had a great chat with this driver, who was also a keen photographer it turned out.
This was at one of my favourite shrines in Kamakura where we spent a delightfully relaxing hour or two just soaking up the utter silence. A great chance to contemplate the enormity of what had just happened to Japan. A time to reflect on the luck we had been blessed with by having escaped the worst of the tragedy.
A moment for me to reflect on the decision we had made, just before Sam had arrived, not to pick him up from the airport and head straight off to relatives for a week in Fukushima......
How different it all could have been if we'd gone with that Plan A for Sam's holiday in Japan.
Mamiya 645AFDii
Carl Zeiss Planar 110mm f/2
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