50mm

So the sharp eye will notice that the book is not covered nor is the regular shape of a Japanese novel. The guy reads English! It’s the little thing’s like this that make the train journey interesting (for the most part).

Taking a break for medium format I went back to shoot with the rangefinder for a while. These shots are a mix of 35mm and 50mm all shot at night in various locations but on the subway and the JR.

A wasted evening wasting film. C41 shot in Shinjuku station through a rangefinder and a 50mm lens. This could have been shot yesterday or 3 years ago. It’s now all the same to me.

One from the archives while I take time out to process a bunch of pics I took the other week.
Shot in Shinjuku during the rainy season I guess. Provia 400x pushed to 1600 as always.

He started it. I’m only following.

Looking for a way to escape, he looks back only to discover the best possible route blocked.

No eye contact, head down, no speaking with anyone. 8.3 million people in this town (source – probably more now) and my version of Tokyo seems like an endless stream of the same.

See this kind of thing every day. Hard to photograph at this angle though.

Sometimes you point your camera in a direction and just hope something will fall into the frame. You don’t expect to feel like your about to get killed (in Tokyo anyway) in the process. This could have been one of these times

Daytime photography. Something I really don’t do much of in Tokyo. Tokyo by day is ugly. Real ugly. Ugly enough to have to shoot in black and white. So, being a night shooter I’ve always got my camera loaded with 1600 asa (iso to you post film people). During the day this means f/16 and hope like hell the shutter speed is fast enough. The magic thing about f/16 is no focus! Which is why I can point the camera behind me, hope like hell and take the shot.

I think the strap adds a level of genuineness to the picture

Part of a series. From the archives.

Sometimes you find a gem in the crowd.