ZombieKitten said:

Yeah, or maybe then the blurriness would start to get annoying instead of add to the atmosphere like I think it does now. Either way, I'm really glad you like it. You know how much I respect your opinion when it comes to visuals.

LleeLlee said:

Straight out of the fifties too. I find her incredibly fascinating.




Thanks, it was pretty tricky to get the angle so that the street light would be right behind him since I was using my backpack as a tripod.

senik said:

Thanks, man! Great that you feel the atmosphere too! That's what I was trying to capture.



Somehow I doubt it.

retina said:

My photography teacher had an exhibition in the city and she made the prints as big as the walls and her pics were blurry, but it was amazing!

the pictures are beautiful..they all look very dreamy.

Great Art Direction. Are you a professional photographer?

weepingwall said:

Thanks, I'm glad you find a common denominator in all of them. That's usually a sign that the photographer has his/her own voice. And now that you mention it, I guess they do have a dream-like quality. Maybe I subconsciously look for that.

Slave2daGroove said:

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "art direction", but thanks!



No, not at all. But I often wish I could use my pictures for something.

Wonderful pics!

This is the kind of thing I wish I could do around Bangkok, but alas, my photography skills are not so hot, but I'm working on them.

Great pics

LleeLlee said:

Yeah! That was my favorite too. If it wasn't for that remote control TV (which I only noticed cuz I was looking at the photo so hard), you coulda told me that shot was taken in 1967 and I would have believed you.
nice.

Very nice photos.

"The A-Bomb Dome" is great shot though unsettling emotionally.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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this photo speaks a thousand words that man could not begin the say ...

Your photos are amazing.

What camera/film do you use?

I love this photo because of the little story behind it...

Great images! I really liked the lighting in the "Local Hipster" image as well; did you do some postprocessing on it to give it a bleach bypass effect? Or was that as is?

The deer image is cute and creepy at the same time, love the expression on it's face and the unusual green cast in the lighting.

Fauxie: Thank you! And you should definitely take your camera out on the streets of Bangkok! If you have a digital camera you can just shoot everything you see and like without restraint, and then there is usually a certain percentage of the pics that turn out pretty good. Even professional photographers have to take bucketloads of pics to get those few good ones, so don't worry if the vast majority aren't masterpieces. I selected the ones above (none of which are masterpieces) among roughly 100 others...

Dewrede: Thanks!

alwayslate: It totally looks like the 60s to me too, but my parents said: "no, that's the 50s".

theAudience: Thank you very much. I'm glad you think I've managed to capture the feeling that the dome conveys. It has a very strong aura when you're there.

Mach: I take that as a compliment. The event the building reminds us of is indeed beyond words.

Rudy: Thanks! My camera is a Nikon D70s and it's digital so I don't use film, but I shoot in the RAW format (or NEF as Nikon calls it) which is uncompressed.

ufoclub: I am a big fan of combining stories with pictures, so I'm very glad that you appreciated the few words that accompanied this pic. If I hadn't been so lazy I would have written a lot about each one, because there is a lot to be said about them all.

Tom: Thank you! I have no idea what a "bleach bypass effect" is, but both the hipster pic and the deer pic are unaltered. I agree that they both have pretty cool light, but it's natural so I can't take credit for that. I do consciously look for subjects with interesting lighting though, and I love it when there is some "real" black (not greyish black) somewhere because it gives the picture a backbone somehow.

You are an excellent photographer. Thanks for showing us all that great material. I have always wanted to go to Japan. Something about the culture and art really attracts me.

retina said:

Yes! That's one of the problems I always had with color film, was the blacks and whites always looked weak, the "black" always looked more like a dark blue or a dark brown or something, and the whites always had a color cast.

Bleach bypass is an old printing trick where you would skip the bleach bath when developing the print. You can get the same effect in photoshop by making a duplicate layer of the image, converting that layer to black and white, and setting the blending mode to "Overlay".

The final image is like a combination of a B&W and a color image. It bumps up the contrast, and makes the highlights and shadows look cleaner and more bold. It can be too harsh of an effect on some images, but on city images, for example, it looks really cool.

Imago said:

Or a harbor full of people and ships

War is ugly no matter how you cut it or who is involved. What Japan did to instiate that attack was just as horrific.
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heartbeatocean said:

Thank you very much!



Just be prepared though. It is a very very very different culture, unlike anything I've encountered before despite my many travels. Lots of westerners crack under the cultural pressure after only a few weeks. Some even turn back after a measly few days. But who knows, maybe you're one of the precious few that would fit right in.

Tom said:

We definitely have the same pet peeves then. Thanks for the tips about how to deal with it. Very interesting.

applekisses said:

[That's uncalled for flame - luv4u]

applekisses said:

I Hate instiaters

So anyway, I really like the monkey pic....

retina said:

I definitely would not fit in. But I've traveled at length in India and Egypt (alone in the latter!). Could the culture shock compare? Japan seems a little inaccessible to me because the exchange rate seems less friendly than in those countries.

awesome pictures!!!

This is my favorite. It's so "anyone, anywhere," yet still so markedly Japanese -- if that makes any sense.

These are all beautiful. Take more soon of wherever you are.

retina said:

Death is death and suffering is suffering no matter how you look at it. That's the way I look at it and it is far from disgusting.

Retina wow ... Fantastic pictures! I love them all but you must emit a very calming aura to have the two animals in the pictures trust you so much.

I was in Nagasaki a couple of months ago. I was awed by the people. It's an amazing place. I wish I'd had time to visit Hiroshima also.

The Atomic Bomb Museum moved me to tears, particularly a video at the end which shows the amount of nuclear tests that have been performed by each country. I really came out feeling very ashamed of us as a race.

However the amazing part about the whole city to me was that there were symbols of peace everywhere and the people, who have much to be angry about, were very welcoming to all visitors. A humbling experience.