Central Tokyo, North (2022-)
“Central Tokyo, North” is a collection of photographs taken at places within 10 minute walking distance from a railway and/or subway station located in the north half of the area surrounded by Yamanote Line, a 35km loop line railway encircling the center of Tokyo.
Photographs of Koishikawa Botanical Garden located in the north half of central Tokyo.
Nozori Lake (野反湖） (2007-)
Photographs of Nozori Lake area. Nozori Lake is located at the mountain ridgeline between Gunma and Niigata, near the Kusatsu hot spring.
Photographs taken in travels around Japan.
Photographs taken in travels abroad.
Cameras and Lenses
When I was around 15 years old, I asked my father to buy a SLR for family use for a year or more and he finally bought Nikon F3 and AI Nikkor 50mm F1.4. This camera, which I have at my hand now, is the first camera I used for taking pictures for fun. In the late 1990’s, I had a chance to travel around Asian countries for one year with Nikon New FM2 and AI Nikkor 24mm f2.8, 50mm f1.4 and 135mm f2.8 and Contax T2. In early 2000’s, I bought a used Hasselblad 501C/M and Planner 80mm f2.8 and was surprised by the image quality of 6×6 format. As for the digital cameras, I bought SONY DSC-R1, my first digital camera, in 2006, Nikon D300 in 2008 and Nikon D800 in 2013. When I bought Nikon D800, I also bought Fuji X-M1 and XF35mm f1.4 as a sub camera and found that its image quality is excellent, and I decided to sell Nikon digital SLR cameras and lenses when I bought Fuji X-Pro2 in 2016.
Since 2016, I have been taking photographs with Fuji cameras, X-M1 (2013-), X-Pro2 (2016-), X-H1 (2018-2020), X-T4 (2020-2022), X-E3 (2020-2021), X-E4 (2021-) and X-T5 (2022-), and fifteen single focus lenses (eleven XF lenses and four manual focus lenses) and two XF zoom lenses.