Walking around the streets in Japan in the city or just in the suburbs you will notice lanterns at shrines or in the front of restaurants. They are almost all different and look great at night as the light up the night provoking you to come eat or drink there.
Taken on my X-pro1 with 23mm at 1.4 lens
I run a street photography group where we go out every once in awhile we go somewhere to shoot what we see. Carytown is a part of Richmond where there is shops and restaurants. Friday night it can get lively and that is when we went an hour before the sun set. Was a great time and I had a film and digital camera with me. I took a lot but some didn’t come out as it was also a time out with the girl. I had black and white film and so I shot in black in white with my digital to stay consistent.
Next four pictures were shot on a Konica Hexar with Fuji Acros 100 at 30mm.
Nice couple we met that owned a Pizza place else where in the city, I need to stop by there…
These guys posed after they had some Mellow Mushroom which is a pizza joint on Cary Street…0
The rest of the images were taken with Fuji X-Pro1 with the 35mm lens, please no sitting…
The World of Mirth is a wonderful toy gag store in Carytown. They have interesting things and fun this in there and you can try on about 25 different weird/funny hats…
These guys were making some Gyro’s and noticed us taken some pictures into there restaurant
Across the street is The Daily which is been pretty popular every time I go by when it’s opened!
Thanks for looking today.
So the weather that we had on our trip was really great. It rained once and that was when we were in Tokyo. Kamo River that cuts through Kyoto is a great sight on a nice night. Along Pontocho which has a lot of restaurants that are really nice and be quite expensive have there backs up to the Kamo river. they build these decks out of the river a little ways and adds a great atmosphere. We cooked our food in a large oil boil (veggies and meat) on one of these decks. It was splendid.
Taken with a fuji XPro1 35mm 1.4 Lens
So walking around in Shinjuku after we went to the robot Show we checked out Golden Gai which is an area of small bars and narrow alley ways. Lots of interesting themed bars and a lot of the places don’t allow any photograph as they have signs all over the place probably because of tourists going inside and just taking pictures or some other past problem. People go in an hang loose. I wish I spent more time walking around or even went in to drink at a place. It started to rain on us and that was the only time it rained on our trip which was fortunate for us. These places, actually a lot of bars or clubs, have a cover charge to go in or occupy a table and then you buy what ever they have.
Taken on Fuji XPro-1 with my Fuji 35mm 1.4 lens
I am pretty certain that I took a lot of pictures of the cherry blossoms this year. They were great and the weather was nice to view them. I took my girlfriend down to the paddle boat pond that is in Byrd park. Paddle boats were still put up probably from winter. Nice cloudy day. I used my Bessa R4M with Ilford FP5 film using the 50mm.
There is my sweet girlfriend enjoying our walk.
The blossoms are lined all the way around this pond. It is pretty nice and should walk around a lot more.
You can always go out there and feed the ducks and geese.
Cheers
S Clinton Lewis 