out there in the dark

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This is a self-portrait that I took at the Sakamiko Illumination.  I am standing in an enclosed walk-through tube that has walls which project a revolving kaleidoscope of colored light.  I was only able to look directly at the ceiling for a few seconds before the luminance’s intensity forced me to look away.
Sagamihara, Japan
February 2016

 

 

unlikely union

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Looking out towards Itsukushima Shrine from a stone sculpture.
If you have been to Miyajima and know the name of the sculpture and/or its significance, please tell me in a comment.  My tour guide explained the lookout’s significance to me, but I was too busy taking photographs for the details to sink in.
Miyajima, Japan
January 2016

A Portrait of Gratitude

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This photograph is of my good friend Mayo—who I met in college over ten years ago—and her new husband Keisuke at their recent wedding in Yokohama, Japan.  This was taken right after the couple acknowledged their parents by reading prepared “letters of gratitude”.  It was a beautiful moment.
2015年5月2日