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Living and working in Japan, and getting by.. Not sure what is to come but taking things one step at a time...

T'ain't Pinocchio

July 8, 2014 – 13:00

Puppet shops seemed to be fairly common in Prague, at least around the old quarter and castle area. These are not the cute little dolls one usually thinks of though – they're often a little scary, if not creepy. Saw plenty of witches for example. Still, most of them weren't quite this big!

#prague #czechrepublic #puppet #europe ?

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A view of Prague

July 7, 2014 – 00:51

A quick shot of Prague as we were leaving the castle quarter, I believe this was taken not too far from the Strahov Monastary, a peaceful place far (at least at the time) from the more bustling castle area.

#prague #czechrepublic #europe ?

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I present to you… a wall

July 5, 2014 – 14:36

😀

I remember taking this photo of a wall because I noticed that the designs weren't painted on, but looked to be "etched" in the stone (ie, the wall is white, but the dark areas are where the top layer of the stone/material has been scraped off). I guess I should have taken a close up instead…

Hope everyone is having a good weekend! (work for me, sadly)
G'night from Tokyo!

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Prague Castle "Orchestra"

July 3, 2014 – 23:09

These guys seem to perform regularly in the Castle Quarter in Prague – they were quite good, and fun to listen to!

Also found this 30+ second clip on Youtube from 2008, so they've been at it for quite some time!

http://youtu.be/jeBtzXiLSTU

TGIF! (at least in this corner of the world)

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Traveler

July 2, 2014 – 14:03

Not sure why I didn't include this together with the other images in my first post, but here's one more from the #gplus3yearanniversary photowalk at Haneda. After this, I'll go back to my Europe shots 🙂

Good night from Tokyo!

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Rainbow Bridge, Reflected

June 30, 2014 – 13:38

This was actually shot during the G+ 3 year anniversary photowalk, but I wanted to put it in its own post, rather than lumping it together with my other shots from that day (^^;

I almost didn't get this shot – just as I was preparing to shoot, it started raining, ruining the reflection in the water. I started walking away, but after a few seconds, I noticed the rain was already starting to taper off, so I retraced my steps, set my camera as low as I could (without actually dipping it in the water), and fired off a couple frames. Kinda like how it turned out 🙂

Goodnight from Tokyo!

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G+ 3 Year Anniversary Photowalk #2

June 29, 2014 – 13:28

As mentioned in my earlier post, this is the second batch of images, post-Haneda. And now, I'm off to bed – good night from Tokyo! 🙂

#Tokyo #Japan #100tokyo #cooljapan #Gplus3yearAnniversary
#Gplus3yearPW_tokyo #GPlusPhotoWalkJapan ?

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G+ 3 Year Anniversary Photowalk

June 29, 2014 – 02:18

Hard to believe that it's already been 3 years since G+ was launched. I've met some great folks on here, people that have educated and inspired my little photography hobby, people that I have come to meet in real life and been glad to call friends.

Yesterday a large group of us in Tokyo gathered to celebrate the 3rd year anniversary of G+ by spending the day shooting at various locations around Tokyo. Despite the bad weather, a very large group assembled and we all had a great time thanks to the super organizational efforts of +kyoko doi , +mica nagami , +masanobu tanzawa , +Y?ki Sakurai +N Koizumi +Takahiro Yanai , +Takafumi Ooshio , and +ei takeuchi – thanks guys! 🙂

We started off at Haneda airport, which turned out to be a pretty cool location to shoot in. An airport is like a condensed city in a way, with cool structures and people of all kinds bustling to and fro – lots of things to see.

As I'm still going through my images, I'll upload them in 2 batches: Haneda and post-Haneda. Have a good weekend all! 🙂

#cooljapan #100tokyo #hanedaairport #GPlusPhotoWalkJapan
#Gplus3yearAnniversary #Gplus3yearPW_tokyo #airport ?