Tag: Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.8 S
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Golden Turd
It didn’t take long for my daughter and I to notice the weird giant yellow thing across the river near our hotel in Asakusa. “What is that?” I asked. She looked on her phone for a minute and then laughed. “Oh,” she said, “it’s the ‘Asahi Flame’, but the locals call it ‘The Golden Turd’”.
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Sumida Reflections
Back in Tokyo after spending the day down in Kamakura (discussed in this post) I had nothing on my agenda for the evening, so I went for a walk along the Sumida River. I mostly used my fast 85mm, in part because it had a deep lens hood and it was raining. Besides that handy
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Scarlet Trusswork
Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. October 2025.
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Menace
Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. October 2025.
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Tokyo Skytree
We’re going to open our series on Japan with images of the Tokyo Skytree, the tallest freestanding tower in the world at 2,080′ (634m). It stood only 1 km away from my hotel in Asakusa, so I had ample opportunities to photograph it over my eight days in Tokyo. The image above obviously exploited a
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Stairing in Notting Hill
Our hotel in London was only a mile or two from Notting Hill, so one afternoon I spent a couple hours wandering the streets enjoying the architecture. It was a dreary day, but the resulting soft light was perfect for doors and windows and such, which are obviously a favored subject of mine whether they
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Christmas Lights in London
Thanksgiving is an American holiday, not an English one, so I am not sure what serves as the starting gun for Christmas decoration deployment in London, but they were definitely ready to go with at least a month to spare. Along with lots of other decorations, there were an abundance of beautifully decorated trees. While
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Pikeville at 85mm
In the fall of 2022, my son entered medical school at the University of Pikeville in Pikeville, Kentucky. So I made two trips to Pikeville that fall, one to help him move from Louisville and another for his White Coat Ceremony. Pikeville is not well known, but is the county seat of Pike County, the
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Bright Angel of Death
Despite the fact that I lived in Arizona for 29 years, I have only been to the Grand Canyon three or four times. In my defense, it is about a six-and-a-half hour drive to get there from Tucson. In many ways, the Grand Canyon is a difficult place to photograph just because it is so
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Jack-o’-Lanterns Galore
A few weeks ago, my wife, Susan, spotted a plug in our employer’s newsletter for Magic of the Jack O’Lantern, an October event in Littleton, which is not too far from home for us. This is apparently the third year running that this event has been in Denver and features over 7,000 carved pumpkins. Susan