Photography

A quiet hobby.

A rolling personal gallery. No work, no theme — just pictures I have taken over the course of my life.  I am not pretending that they're great, but they make me smile.

Tokyo skyline hazed gold at sunset
Tokyo, dissolving into gold.↗
Persimmons on a branch against a pale sky
Persimmons, patient on the branch.↗
A crow perched on an old lamp post
The lamp, and its regular visitor.↗
A stag resting on grass beside a stone wall
A stag, entirely at ease.↗
Glass and iron dome of a nineteenth-century shopping arcade
A ceiling built to be looked up at.↗
A ginger cat sitting in front of a wooden building
Unbothered, and clearly in charge.↗
Turquoise pond with skeletal trees reflected
The blue pond, holding its breath.↗
Purple water lilies on a pond under a modern canopy
Lilies, keeping their own hours.↗
Silhouetted historic domes and minarets against a low orange sun
Old stone, last light.↗
Weathered bronze eagle fountain against sky
An eagle, minding the sky.↗
Steaming volcanic hills wrapped in autumn colour
Where the mountain still exhales.↗
A macaque sitting beside a rope railing in the woods
Somebody's whole afternoon.↗
Old shophouses in front of a lit skyline at night
Two cities, one street.↗
A pink dahlia with a small moth on its petals
One flower, one very small guest.↗
A bench and watering can against a brick wall with a Sendai City sign
Sendai, in one quiet corner.↗
Lake edge with a snow-dusted mountain in the distance
First snow, over quiet water.↗
Green ridges and a winding road through highland hills
A road that gives up gracefully.↗
A ruined stone hut on the shore of a wide loch
Somebody lived here once.↗
Autumn trees clinging to a cliff over a valley
Autumn, holding on to the edge.↗
A hummingbird hawk-moth hovering beside a pink hibiscus flower
A hawk-moth, mid-decision.↗
Rusted shipwreck on a Peloponnese beach
A ship, deciding to stay.↗
A gull standing on a wet pier in soft grey light
Grey on grey, and unimpressed.↗
A field of sunflowers under a cloudy summer sky
All of them facing the same way.↗
Pink sunset sky behind a neoclassical Athens facade
Athens, pink for a moment.↗
The Caryatids of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis
Six women, still holding the roof up.↗
Gilded temple interior with lanterns and carved ornament
Gold, in every direction.↗
A late-night bar counter under a red neon sign reading Paradise
Paradise, open late.↗
A traffic light showing red against a pale winter sky
Red, against nothing at all.↗