Category Archive: Tokyo

Photo lessons and photo tours in Tokyo

Photo lessons and photo tours in Tokyo

Last year I started teaching photography lessons and doing photography tours in Tokyo and I find it’s something I really enjoy doing. I’m always happy …

 

Family portraits in Scotland

Family portraits in Scotland

Photographing people is what I love most, private hires for family/couple portraits is always something I really relish, each client has different wishes and it’s …

 

Kanchu Suiyoku (midwinter bathing)

Kanchu Suiyoku (midwinter bathing)

The new year here in Japan starts off with some quite masochistic festivals. The other week I went to the Kanchu Suiyoku festival, which is …

 

Tokyo Tower

Tokyo Tower

Recently I’ve been photographing a lot of buildings around Tokyo. It’s always good to have stock shots of the same buildings, I often get asked …

 

Shibuya Crossing at night

Shibuya Crossing at night

The other night I went to Shibuya to photograph and video around the crossing area just out from the station. Shibuya has the image of being …

 

Sensoji

Sensoji

Today was another beautiful day in Tokyo and I headed down to Asakusa, one of Tokyo’s downtown areas that still clings to an older way …

 

The start of 2010

The start of 2010

Happy New Year everyone. 2009, like most of the last decade, just seemed to fly in. It doesn’t seem long ago I was seeing in 2009, …

 

Christmas Tokyo style

Christmas Tokyo style

Japan has its own way of doing things, quite often very different from how it’s done in other countries. Christmas is a good example. Here in …

 

Kusajishi and Yabusame

Kusajishi and Yabusame

One of my favourite things about Japan is how ancient rituals and festivals go on on unchanged for centuries. No matter how the country grows …

 

Down and out in Tokyo

Down and out in Tokyo

Tokyo is full of homeless people, they live in most of the big parks, by the rivers, under railway bridges, in small wooded areas on …