Another photo, Cooled, has been published in Camerapixo, in the Body Language edition, p34. See the original Cooled in Shino’s gallery. Thanks so much to Camera Pixo for choosing this photo for yet another great edition put out by them.
Cooled published in Camera Pixo’s Body Language, April 2015.
Every new year needs a review of the old. Ok, yes, this is coming a little late, but timed for when most people are back at work and can benefit from this. The top 5 photos are available at both my PhotoShelter portfolio and my agent’s website.
5. 20-Somethings on a day out in Osaka.
Actually, in my list of 100 top photos of all time, nothing from 2013 appears, yet. However, on a photographer’s social networking site, 500px, this was one of the top photos, and was listed at “Popular” for a couple of days: an achievement. Both models were a delight to work with, and it was a fun morning. Thanks Ana and Brooke 🙂 This photo is available on my PhotoShelter portfolio and can be seen at 500px.
Young twenty-something friends on a day out in Osaka.
4. City Angel.
This photo also doesn’t (yet) appear in my list of top 100 photos of all time, but again on 500px it was a top performer, with a remarkable peak rating of 92.5 (squee!).
What could be more popular than the above ‘City Angel’? Naked men giving each other wedgies, of course! The Naked Man Festival is a winter event, and will be on again soon, and yes, this really is one of the top 100 photos of all time. From a quick check of my previous blog posts, I’ve written quite a bit on the annual Naked Man Festival, held in Komaki, just outside of Nagoya.
2. Korean Royalty.
I don’t know why, but Korean royalty is one of the most popular photos on JapanesePhotos.Asia. Obviously they are actors performing for tourists at Gyeongbok Palace. Incidentally, it was Japanese assassins who killed of most of the Korean royal family, paving way for a Japanese annexing of the peninsula starting from 1910 to 1945. This was a time when the Korean people were brutally treated (Wikipedia), and is still an open wound that current Japanese politicians do not or won’t understand (Japan Today).
1. One of Japan’s top jazz ballet dancers leaping.
I did this collection of photos with Ai in 2012, and this one was the top favourite in 2013. You can see my previous blog post of this photo in a tearsheet, and other previous Jazz Dance posts, too. It’s always a pleasure to work with jazz dancers, they know how to pose, they enjoy performing, and they have infinitely more energy than I. A new jazz dance project is in the planning stages for winter 2014, so keep an eye out for that, and please show support with microdonations on Flattr, every little bit helps.
This Photo of the Week is of a great model I worked with recently. You’ll have seen her in previous POTWs, but not as relaxed. However, it’s a little cooler now than what it was when this photo was taken, but just imagine a warmer late afternoon sun in the early autumn. For this photo, and others like it, see my PhotoShelter portfolio, and my agent’s website.
This Photo of the Week is in celebration of the colours of autumn. For this photo, and more like it see the Seasons Gallery on PhotoShelter, and with my agent at Asia Photo Connection.
This Photo of the Week is of a recent shoot done with Shino in Osaka. It was taken of course at night, and with a special selective focus lens. For this photo, and more like it see the Shino gallery on my PhotoShelter portfolio and (soon) my agent’s website.
This Photo of the Week is of a Japanese dancer. It is available at my agent’s website along with many others.
Portrait of a young Japanese female ballet and jazz dancer.
This Photo of the Week is of Brooke, an expat living in Japan. It was a great pleasure to work with her recently. Just over the weekend I published an early version of this photo on the photographer’s sharing website 500px where it was title “City Angel”, and it scored really high peaking at 92.3%; it was very well received. Photos of Brooke are available for licensing at my PhotoShelter portfolio and perhaps later at my agent’s website.
Outdoor portraits of a twenty-something Caucasian lady.
Over the weekend I did a trip to Osaka and was able to work with two models, Brooke and Shino. Night portraits are always a fun challenge, so here is Shino in one of the photos at a point where I decided to just have a bit of fun while shooting. The technical photographers will want to know all the details of how I acheived this, I used a camera, a big black one, with one or two hotshoe flashed connected to Cowboy Studio trigger & receivers, and most importantly, Lensbaby 50mm at f2.8. This is the first and only image I’ve published so far. More will be coming out in the next week or so at both my Agent’s website, Henry Westheim of Asia Photo Connection, and my own PhotoShelter portfolio.
I think I don’t show enough of my portraits, so here is one of the top talented jazz dancers of Japan, Miyuki. For this image, and more like it, please visit my PhotoShelter portfolio.