Twos

Am I allowed to compliment myself?

Because I really LOVE this capture—everything about it—the sunlight, the lines of this Ueno Park (Tokyo) bridge, the two couples casting shadows in tandem. 

In as far as documenting The City could be deliberate, this image actually is: having noticed the lines and lighting in this area, I took several photographs.

If I were to illustrate a basic Japanese-language textbook, this would be an image for te ni te wo toru (and that's as sentimental as this Russian Barbarian will ever get on this blog!).

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The Necklace (WIP)

In the past few weeks, I've been buried under the less appealing aspects of graphic design, that is, indexing, layouts, along with a steady onslaught of translation and editing. What's good for the book-publishing industry is not always great for my sanity.

So I've decided that I must sit down a couple of times a week and sketch. This is one of those drawings. 

It's obviously very much incomplete, so don't judge harshly. :)

Waterdrops on a Blade of Grass

This might surprise those who see that many of my Nature-related images feature overwhelming, exuberant colors: in my personal life, I often gravitate toward minimalism, prefer minimalism in design aesthetics (German, Japanese), and so on. 

On occasion, this preference appears in my photographs, like this single blade of grass covered in water drops set on fire by the Sun:

Yes, you can click to enlarge!

I have also been concerned with the idea of seeing beauty in the mundane, the everyday, in byt. Of course, a certain variant of the latter appears in many different cultures throughout different time periods. My fascination, specifically, was sparked by reading Russia's Silver-Age poetry. (At times, I had more interest in this aesthetic direction than the poetry itself!)