
It’s been about three weeks since I got home from Kenya and I have spent way too much time trying to put this little book together. Well, here it is for your viewing pleasure. Go ahead. It’s a lot of fun. https://www.blurb.com/b/10983367-kenya-2021

I’m not sure if I am going to be able to articulate what happened yesterday, but let me try. This story began when we first got to Japan last August. Yumiko goes to a school two miles from our apartment. At first she took the train, but one morning Ken’s brother Tokuya San showed…

It’s now Thursday afternoon and Ken and I are back from our three day adventure at a little Japanese Inn on the Izu Peninsula in the town of Atagawa. Yumiko had a five day ski trip with her 7th grade class this week and won’t be back until Friday, so we thought we too…

It rained all night last night and most of the day today. I learned that a great time to take photographs is in the rain. Everything is more vibrant and colorful. So, after breakfast, I put on my raincoat, tucked my camera in its bag, grabbed my tripod and umbrella and Yumiko and I…

We had a busy day today. I woke up early and took the 5:18 a.m. subway to the Imperial Palace to try and find great light for dawn photographs. I got a few – nothing earth shattering. Came home by 7:30. Yumiko was a little sick with fever and cough and stomach ache. Not…

Last weekend Yumiko posed for a few backlighting photographs on the windowsill in our hotel room at the Maza Prince Hotel in Northern Japan. She is a true sport.