Loupey's Tokyo train shot is awesome. Didn't have any material for this until this weekend in the hotel in NYC with my 19 month old son. It seemed to flow best for me as a series...
Tokyo - perhaps the most quiet major city in the world where the millions of its citizens don't speak to one another, but instead, text and talk to a few million others.
Talking to strangers is just utterly alien to the Japanese. Or talking out loud in public for that matter. Texting, therefore, is a perfect fit for the culture.
1) some communication can be blunt
2) sometimes communication can get in the way ("hey, what are you doin'?")
3) communication is sometimes final
4) a lot of communication in the animal kingdom is non-verbal (the visual kind is fun to photograph, the chemical kind not so much)
Canon EOS 1D Mark IV
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EOS 1D Mark III
Canon 24-70mm EF f/2.8L
Canon 24-105mm EF f/4L IS
Canon Zoom Telephoto EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS
Canon 17-40mm EF f/4L
Canon 15mm F/2.8 EF Fisheye Lens
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
Canon 50mm f/1.8
Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite
Canon 580EX Speedlite
Canon EOS Rebel 300D
"I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view."
Aldo Leopold
There is nothing like a bench in the botanical gardens for a serious piece of communication
And how come, it's always women I see there talking??? I see plenty of men, but they are alone, with a newspaper or a book...
All of the below ladies were so busy talking, they never realised I was there with my macro lens. They were just one-off snapshots, I was busy with my creepy crawlies
Mette
Last edited by Pink Dragonfly; 09-30-2008 at 04:30 PM.
My Sony Alpha 700 and I have been joined by a Tamron 200-500mm