Just stumbled on some pics i took when i was in Kyoto so thought i’d muck around with them a bit. I quite like how they turned out.

I still have heaps of photos from my asia trip i havent really gone through yet.
These are some i took in Shibuya in Tokyo. Its a crazy place, so many aspects of it seem like you’re in the movie Bladerunner. There is so much activity goign on. People everywhere, TV screen flashing at you, the sound of seizure inducing Pachinko Parlors, and the alleys filled with “Love hotels”. Its a sensory overload and i thought it was fantastic

I tried out a Cross Processed effect with these. I found a Cross Processing action which worked ok, but i still did a fair bit of my own fine tuning..
I quite like how they turned out, hope you like some of them too.
I think they look considerably better in a larger size, but i just used the automated flickr resizing to post them up here.

These first 2 photos were taken from Starbucks above the intersection. It has the best view, but unfortunately alot of people bumping the bench i was resting the camera on!

EDIT : I’ve uploaded bigger versions now, and will do so with all of my future posts.

I wish i wasnt though..
The trip to Melbournce was fantastic. I’ll be writing more about it later when i upload my digital photos, and get my film developed. Hopefully they turn out.
For the moment i’ve put up something i was mucking around with the other day. Its just a collection of some mobile phone pictures i took in Japan. It’s nothing really amazing, but i like them.
You’ll need to view it at full size, as you cant see anything in the thumbnail view. (click on it)

I was just looking through more travel photos and found some of the more “random” ones we took.
If you’ve travelled around Asia you would of noticed quite a few examples of engrish in many places you looked. Signs displaying names such as “Golden Californian BBQ Beef Noodle House” and “Super Star Magic Paperclips and Hair Brushes” are fairly common. Below is a small selection of the randomness we saw on our trip.

Thought we could start off with some simple spelling mistakes:

“Godzira”, the smaller pinker cousin of Godzilla?

So cliché

everything was pretty normal.. until the last line..

awww.. only half?

and what the hell is this meant to be?

oh ok, it all makes sense now

this makes heaps of sense too

i want to be one of these guys when i grow up

Ok, here’s a few pics from the trip. I just had to pick a selection out at random basically. Theres more on my flickr page.
cheers.

I was just going through some travel pics today, so thought i’d post a few up here.
These were taken during June/July this year when i went traveling around Asia with my girlfriend. We went to China, Hong Kong, and Japan, and it was an amazing trip. All countries were wonderful in their own way. The people were nice everywhere we went, and always willing to help if we got lost etc.
Getting around was pretty easy too, alot easier than we though it would be.

In China we did alot of pointing at maps after jumping in Cabs. Once we learnt that they charge on distance and not time they became our main form of transport. It’s so ridiculously cheap over there. We also took the subway too, which was very easy and efficient. It might sound dumb, but i was surprised how clean and neat it all was. I didnt see one bit of graffiti or rubbish anywhere. There were only 3 main lines i think, so their whole subway system was fairly easy to learn. In addition to the subway, we also took some sleeper trains with our tour group (that we met up with after a few days). When i heard we were taking sleeper trains i immediately thought of chickens running around, people eating food and throwing scraps on the ground, stepping over people sleeping under seats.. you get the idea. However is was quite the opposite. The trains seemed pretty new, clean, and reasonably comfortable. each little cabin contained 6 people on bunk beds, so our tour group took up two of them just about. Over all everything was very smooth in China, alot easier to get around than i originally thought.

In Japan we mostly took the subway which was very easy after our first couple of attempts. We picked probably the hardest place to learn also, as our first experience of Japan Subway stations was at Shinjuku, which just so happens to be the busiest stations on the planet with over 3.31 million passengers a day, and 11 different train lines, all in Japanese, and all pretty amazing. Actually every single time we exited Shinjuku station during our trip we managed to use a different exit, not intentionally, its just the way things happened! In addition to the tube, we also had a 2 week JR Pass which was fantastic. We used it top travel to Kyoto, Hiroshima, Osaka, and then back again. It was so efficient, and the staff at the booking centres were very helpful.

Hong Kong was quite different again. They have an impressive subway system that are alot newer than Japan. We took the tube a fair bit, but also did alot of walking. We didnt really cover as much distance as in China or Japan, and alot of people spoke english too (as opposed to China where everyone tries to speak it, and Japan where alot of people know it but avoid speaking it).

ok, wow, what a tangent. I have no idea why i started talking about transport when im meant to be posting pictures. I guess i’ll post them up next!

here is the subway map for Tokyo :