great things that happened yesterday
1. The editor of Photo Contest Monthly telling me to bring back 20 photos from the 150 or so I took with me to show him for possible publication as an article in his magazine.
2. After that going with Onishi Sensei in a cab to Ginza to a photo exhibition opening party which like a lot of the other ones I have been to featured free sushi, beer, and a lot of the same people in the Art Photography Community in Tokyo. Folks that I have met at galleries and the like. Making connections and a presence, that is a good time.
3. After that walking to Hibiya station on the main street in Ginza and nearly literally running into Mike Harpending with his F5 around his neck. We scooted over to a Wendys and then after that headed for his hotel in Akasaka where I suprised his wife, my Japanese Mom, Ogawa Sensei. She is one of two ladies who are not my actual mother whom I still have been called “son” by. Takako sensei, the other one, was there as well. Tonight: Dinner and Catching Up!
