Today we went to the beautiful city of Kyoto, on one of Japan’s legendary Nozomi Shinkansen trains. The Nozomi is Japan’s fastest train service and runs on the Tokaido and San’yō Shinkansen lines. The service only stops at the largest stations. Its N700 series rolling stock reaches speeds of 83 metres per second (300 km/h | 186 mph).
We also spent quite a lot of time photographing Kyoto’s magnificent railway station building. Then we rounded the day off with a trip up the famous Kyoto Tower.
My very temporary office on Hong Kong. Actually the basement of my friend’s house in Mui Wo. But it was a great base form which to see Hong Kong and its environs and it was very good of my friends to put me up.
Found myself in Istanbul with former New Millennium features editor Sarah Keen, during a particularly cold spell, back in February 1996. Now, I had naively imagined that the Republic of Türkiye is a hot country. But not in February, apparently. It was bitterly cold with icy winds all the way from Northern Russia, howling across…
Quite a lot of noise in the photography press regarding Ricoh Pentax’s new point and shoot film camera, the Pentax 17. And even more noise regarding its somewhat hefty price ticket: £550. Choices However for me it would have to be a choice between one of these (below) Pentax ME SUper, or more likely a…
My experience of street photography is to make oneself looks as insignificant and unprofessional as possible – which comes rather too naturally to me, TBH! 🙂 Kit should be small, light and ideally somewhat battered looking – a “distressed” look that most of my kit usually acquires after a few weeks’ service. No expensive-looking kit…
We bought a couple of IBM Lenovo 3000C200 laptop PCs in 2007 May. These are fairly average 1700MHz laptops purchased from a UK supplier called eBuyer for around 300 quid a throw. These came preloaded with the basic version of Windows Vista. To describe Vista’s performance as dismal would be understatement of the year. Problems…
Lisbon, Portugal, day 9.
