Central Tokyo, North (2022-)
“Central Tokyo, North” is a collection of pictures 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.
Nozori Lake (野反湖） (2007-)
Nozori Lake is located at the mountain ridgeline between Gunma and Niigata, near the Kusatsu hot spring. Since 1993, I visited Nozori Lake alone or with my family almost every year. Here are the pictures taken at or around Nozori Lake since 2007.
Photos taken in the travels around Japan.
Photos taken in the travels abroad.
Photos taken in the Koishikawa Botanical Garden.
Cameras and Lenses
When I was around 15 years old, I asked my father to buy a SLR for his family for a year or more and he finally bought Nikon F3. This camera, which I have 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. 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 was better than sufficiently good, and I was persuaded to sell Nikon digital SLR cameras and lenses when I bought Fuji X-Pro2 in 2016.
I have been enjoying taking pictures 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 fourteen single focus lenses (eleven XF lenses and three manual focus lenses) and two XF zoom lenses, and SONY RX100M3 (2014-).