Hermit Crab

Dam Sparks

This was the shot I was aiming for when I made the fire last week.  Unfortunately it still didn't come out exactly as I had envisioned.  But this gives me reason to keep thinking and come up with an alternative way to produce sparks that hold their spark longer.

Lightpainting with Hazel

Friend Hazel is out for a few days. We started experimenting last night and in no time came up with this:

Magazine Feature

I was asked to photograph a woman for a magazine article she wrote on moving to Zamami from Kanagawa this past April.  I can't read the text so I'm not really sure of the point of the article, but all the photos but the turtle picture are mine.  Unfortunately there was some miscommunication and I didn't know the end result was going to be in black-and-white, or else I would have shot and processed differently.

[magazine mock-ups removed at author's request, but the magazine will be published within a month so I'll post a picture of the finished copy when it comes out]

Here's how the pictures would've looked if they were in color (seriously, they still make magazines in black-and-white?):

Blue

Enjoy the weekend!

Aka Sports Day - Taichi

I was ho-hum on this shot, but the teachers all named it their favorite so I'll post it:

My Burn

The grass was waist-high in this section before I leveled it:

In retrospect, I think I was just unlucky.  To the left and the steel wool would have gone down into the concrete spillway.  To the right, and it would have landed on that rock pathway or in the short green grass.  But I can also consider myself lucky that none of the 1.5m-high flames jumped to the neighboring trees.