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) The place was packed with kids studying for the day this great national treasure.
Not that I am a fish specialist. In any case, if you have the chance to go to Tokyo this is a must do.
Another shot from the funeral. This guy was playing the rather odd instrument which can produce aproximately 2 sounds but had a huge musical partition in front of him. Well I guess I know nothing about music … It was quite funny anyway.
Technorati Tags : Tokyo, Izakaya, Japan
Technorati Tags : Tokyo, Izakaya, Japan
Technorati Tags : Japan, temple, funeral, budhism, tokyo
You can expect a LOT of pictures from this trip. So stay tune ! Here is the first one which is the most famous crossing in Tokyo in a very hype neighboord. Too bad I couldn’t climb on that hotel on a Saturday. You’re supposed to get 10 times that many people … 
Anyway, I wanted him on my photoblog since he’s an important figure in my life.
This is my entry for this week PXITE challenge “Eye” ( Here). This was taken last year in a mall in San Francisco.
This is a picture for this week’s challenge at Photo Friday. This was taken in 2003 in Hawai … I like the complexity of the tree and of course the more deeper complexity of love engraved on these …
Oh my … This is a leg festival !! Well I’ve just received the authorization from my friend (whose name shall remains unidentified) to post this picture for this week’s photofriday.com challenge. I thought of that picture right away when I saw the theme of this week’s challenge: Silky. This is also my choice for the Best of 2005 theme. 
My daughter with her best friend. This was one of the first picture where I was satisfied with my new 35mm Summicron pre-ASPH. For some reaosn I have difficulty getting the kind of result I’m looking for. I guess I have to get used to the lens … But I kind of understand why it is called the king of bokeh. It is indeed very smooottthhh.
We did a 12 miles trail while in Lassen. It was very refreshing and it felt good to do some exercise … After all all we do all week long is sit on our chair (well, it’s the case for me anyway …). I like the atmosphere of this picture, the light … Feel very quiet.
I’m receiving increasing pressure to release more pictures and even migrating my old pictures to this new template (Pat from nordilux.com) .. I thought about migrating my old pictures but first of all it’s going to be a lot of work for me 
and then I think things need to move forward not backward. So I’m just going to release new material. This one is old (but never released !) taken last year in downtown San Jose. Yes. Downtown. San Jose. There are some photographic opportunity in that city. This was one of them
I’ve entered this picture for the Photo Friday challenge for the week of 07/08/2005. The category was candid. I’ve always feel a little nervous about releasing this picture on my blog. Maybe because I was ashamed of myself for not talking to that person after I took the picture. Maybe because I don’t give enough to the homeless in San Francisco. Maybe because I have everything one could hope and they have nothing. This is a very common picture in San Franciso unfortunately and we don’t notice anymore, unless I have my camera with me … Do I want to raise the awarness … ? Yeah right. It’s not like nobody notices …
I don’t know. It’s just a picture.
We went camping to Lassen volcanic National Park with a bunch of friends for July 4th week-end. I was very excited about the photographic opportunity. Unfortunately I forgot how bad I was at landscape photography … As I scan my negatives I feel shame all over me. Damn, why is it so complicated ? Maybe I should have used color instead of B&W. Maybe it’s more forgiving … I don’t know. Damn …
Here is the only one I kind of like so far …
One of the nice thing about my Canon Elan 7e was that 85mm f/1.8 I was using. A very fine lens and I’ve made some very good pictures of my daughter with it. One of my concern when switching entirely to Leica was the fact that my M6 0.72 might not be the best tool for portrait. I bought essentially the M3 to fill the gap and I bought a Tele-Elmarit 90mm f/2.8 along with it. This was my first roll with this fine lens. Right now it’s on CLA at Golden Touch but it should come back soon and I’ll definitely shoot more with it !
We went at Bass Lake for camping with a bunch of friends and particulary Alex (who also has a photoblog: Califoto ) who is well into photography as well. We saw this old barn which was to be honest the highlight of our week-end as far as photography goes He has some great pictures of that barn on his blog.
I’ve acquired from a fellow photo.net member (from Honk-kong !) a Bessa L with a Voigtlander 15mm. I was not quite sure what to expect from this lens as it seems to be really difficult to master. I’m on my third rolls with this lens and I’m starting to have some fun. You have to be careful with the metering since you pick up a lot of sky but you get use to it. You can really get clsoe to people and get interesting portrait without too much distortion, as seen in this picture of my little girl. Yes, the first picture of the new 400iso.com is my little girl … Who else ? After all, she is the one responsible for my passion.
