The Shinkansen is Japan’s high-speed rail network, dissecting the country at 300km per hour (186 mph). Like a bullet through Japan, you can feel it approach in your stomach and the world is cast into a daze as it hurtles past. I featured it on my blog once before (The Shinkansen- Part 1) but can […]
I recently took a trip to the nearby town of Tsuwano. Unfortunately, it was a grey and drizzly day, turning a pretty little town with quaint streets and streams of golden carp into a bit of a miserable place. Tsuwano is one of many towns in Japan people refer to as a ‘little Kyoto’. Like […]
Looking back at the photo’s I took for yesterdays post, I noticed I had missed one. The featured temple boasts a maze of stone lanterns, spectacularly lit once a year for the Buddhist festival of Obon. I zoomed in tight on a small section to create the illusion of size, a pattern stretching through the […]
snow monkey photography 