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In a few hours my family will arrive at Narita airport, and for the next week I will get to be a guide and a tourist. This is great because I will be shooting the entire time. There is a certian freedom that one has with a camera when you are at a place where everyone else is taking pictures, too. This lets me keep working on taking pictures of people taking pictures. I figure if someone has a camera in hand, they are fair game. There is something interesting about seeing pictures of people getting their picture taken.- how we present ourselves and what-not. The plan is for a day at Kamakura, and a night’s stay in Karuizawa. I will probably also be taking more of pictures of temples and shrines too.

Also, from this week Nick is off the bench and now down with the Japan blogger scene. He already has a Mac, a Japanese girlfriend, and witty writing skills. Enjoy his take on the country and life in general, as I sure do. Add him to your bookmarks and links. He will be living in Tsukuba city, which has a mountain that I can see from the 4th floor my school.

Film-wise I finally got caught up on developing those remaining rolls that were waiting so patiently for me to get to them. I filled negative sheets # 419 to 429 this morning. Part of me thinks I ought to take a month off of shooting and instead just print like crazy. I have yet to make any contact sheets, and to do so now I would have to spend about 200 dollars just to buy the paper for them. It would probably be cheaper to get a negative scanner and look at them that way.

Anways– check back this week if you want, there might be more here to see but maybe not.