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He is often found in the Shinjuku L tower and here also here I see.

Nagamachi san is:

1. Completely Awesome.
2. Someone you need to know to be a photographer in Tokyo.
3. Someone you probably do know if you are a photographer in Tokyo.
4. A man who does “Street Photography” with an 8×10 view camera cradled in his arms. (see #1 again)

This is not a test, you don’t get to choose just one since they all apply.

Last weekend I found myself in Kashiwa and saw a space/place that I responded to with my camera. That is an accurate description of how I photograph. The space has a large tree in the middle. So, I took a shot with my leica and one with my cheap-o digital camera.

There was probably a good photograph around here somewhere- and while the one above was not it, it was later when I realized I had already seen that good photograph before. He also took one from the other side of the fence.

Is it because there was a large round tree there surrounded by all that stuff that I wanted to take the picture? Probably. But a further description to express a feeling would negate the reason to make a picture about what ever it was I was looking (feeling) at in the first place. I am not sure to what point photographs can honestly or truly work as emotional expressions, but if telling you something was the best way to express it why would I photograph it? Making a photograph is a chance to see something new based from what you might have felt, that is, just how you dealt with it through a lens and into a picture.

This makes less sense each time I read it. It takes several second of concentrated thought to remember if an American book opens up from the left or the right. Why am I so tired at 8:51pm?

700 feet of film comes to 23,100 yen, and 156 rolls comes to 148 yen a roll. Half of what they cost pre-rolled and individually packaged. Not factoring in the brain cells lost while actually watching Japanese tv as I loaded film, all in all it was a good 2 evenings of quality fun.