These two shots looked good out of the camera, but they just screamed, “Grayscale!” when I took them. So here you are. I’ve been itching to do more black and white stuff again lately, so plan on seeing more soon.

After work, I had to run to Shinjuku to get something, so I took a few pictures while I walked around. (Here are eleven.) The last one is actually not Shinjuku. I was on the train at Asagaya Station, and I took it on the train, while the door was open. As usual, nothing special–just things that caught my eye.

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On Saturday, I went to Mitaka, an area just a couple stops away by train. I have always liked this tree and house:

On the way back, near Ogikubo Station (my nearest station), I took a few other shots. You can see the rest of them if you click the link below.

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Yesterday, I posted the Giraffe picture in the previous post. Here are some more pictures I took at Hagiyama Station (on the way to work), and at Tachikawa Station (on the way back).

Nothing special. Just a few shots I took while I was walking around.

Hagiyama Station

JR Tachikawa Station (And Tachikawa Kita Monorail Station)

Yesterday, I had some free time after my class, so I stopped off in Tachikawa, and walked through a shopping mall. I walked through a music shop and a book shop, and I also walked around outside. I found this cool giraffe not too far from the station. In and around Tachikawa Station, which is in the western area of Tokyo, there are a lot of statues and modern art pieces around. This is just one of them.

To my Dad, (and all Dads). Thanks for all the sacrifices you have made. I learn more and more every day just how hard being a man is.

I made this the other day. I didn’t have the ingredients I wanted, so I experimented. It wasn’t too bad!

There are many kinds of donburi in Japan. Donburi is basically a bowl of rice with something over it. It just occurred to me that there might be a Wikipedia article on donburi, and sure enough, there is!

I added a few pictures that I took in Shinbashi (Tokyo), on January 16, 2009). I made a new flickr set called Shinbashi. It only has 8 pictures now, but I am sure I have taken more pictures in Shinbashi in the past. I will have to see if I can find them.

Shinbashi is not an area I go to every day, but I do sometimes transfer there. I had a job there that day, so I just took a few pictures on the way back to the station.

The Shinbashi Set is here.

This picture is very simple. I don’t know why, but I really like it. I took this from my hotel room when I was stuck overnight in Detroit, on the way back to Tokyo. (January 8, 2009).

Yes, I am way behind, but the good news is that I now have internet at home, and a computer again. So I will be catching back up. Look for lots of pics from the past several months…

I took this on Saturday afternoon, near Mitaka Station. Nothing special, but I like how it turned out. There aren’t many street signs in Tokyo, by the way, so taking a picture of one is not as crazy as it might seem!