Venerable and vending...

Japan. And Japan.

Kyoto and surrounds...

Raindrops on a bullet train window don't stick around too long.

Fish in a barrel...

Underwater. On land.

Love haunts...

In the color space that only tungsten and neon in combination can produce.





Check out this tragically beautiful documentary ("The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief") about the host/hostess clubs of Osaka.

Far East foliage...

Kyoto. Forest.

Today in Osaka...

It's funny to think the things we photograph actually happen. Discrete slices of time, forever distilled.

My new national past time...

There's nothing like watching two morbidly obese men in fancy diapers slap each other around. Er, I mean sumo wrestle. The slo-mo replays are not to be missed - it's like you can see every chunk of stew they ever ate, every bowl of noodles they couldn't refuse, rippling across their thighs like mini-tsunamis. I'd take it over baseball everyday of the week and twice on Sunday!

Ads in Asia...

The wheels hit the tarmac this morning in Singapore after 24 hours from NYC via Frankfurt. My traveling companies were the ever-reliable Ambien, a couple of drinks, baseball cap pulled over the eyes and two deeply lodged earplugs.

Out here shooting television commercials for Singapore Airlines, one in town here, the other in Japan. A la Bill Murray/Lost in Translation - "For relaxing times, make it Suntory time..."

The detailed city...

I always find images more intriguing without context...sometimes complex images work, other times it's good to go back to the basics.