Alex_Es Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 I shot these pix ad hoc at the Japan Rail (JR) station near my home with a Bessa R2C and a prewar Sonar 50/2.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alex_Es Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 Should mention that the young woman in the white top is sitting on the ledge of an open window. It's a long way down to the tracks. Below is how I found these three ladies about half an hour earlier. The 511 length format doesn't quite do it for this shot. Pardon the large file.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shambrick007 Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 ...man, i gotta get back to japan... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 Sheldon! So come! - Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry_lehrer Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Alex Is Okubo on the JR Osaka Loop Line? I don't place it. I lved in Kobe and visited Osaka regularly. Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier_reichenbach Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Nice, Alex. But are you sure you didn't mean "When it's Fun to be a Photographer"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__jon__ Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Cute girls... Gonna have to make a trip out East. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Pretty ordinary snapshots, Alex. I think your pics of individual figures in the rain done with a telephoto were much more interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 Gerald, I should have said that Okubo is a "village" (machi) in Akashi City, which is just below Kobe. Oliver, it is always fun to be a photographer, but these characters were a special delight to photograph. They had a wonderful sense of humor. This ad hoc street photo shoot was full of giggles and clowning around on both the subjects' and photogher's parts. I was happy that these ladies found me to be a safe sort of guy to pose for. It was (and is) a cultural moment. Gone is it the shy, retreating o-jo-san of old. Enter the brassy new Japanese woman with her dyed hair, tank top with funny English, mini-skirt and cell phone. She is very much like the "flapper" of the 1920s. Another cultural note. My use of "Girl" in the title was deliberate. Young Japanese like to extend their childhoods by and large. They generally like to be "boys" and "girls" even after they officially become adults at 20. When they get jobs and married they suddenly stop being boys and girls and become salarymen, office ladies,and fathers and mothers. Anyway, I'm glad that the young woman in the white top didn't fall out the window in all the excitment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thanks, Jon. Come on out! The youth culture here is a photographer's dessert. I honestly don't know how long we'll be able to enjoy it. Koizumi is determined to make Japan a warfare state. If he succeeds things might be quite grim among the youth of Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted November 11, 2004 Author Share Posted November 11, 2004 Thanks for your thoughts Ray. You may be right. Glad you liked the rain shots (which someone panned as mere snapshots) as they were a little harder to pull off! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abufletcher Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Alex, you're lucky you're in a major city -- that's where all the *youths" apparently are. Here in Zentsuji we seem to only have the elderly and small children. Of course at the university is a different story but the students get out of town at every opportunity. Interestingly, this youth culture seems to be largely limited to females. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirk-san1 Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Yeah, that militant youth. Especially at cherry blossom time.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_Cooper11664875449 Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 /\/\/\<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeter Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 alex, i like your last shot the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
________1 Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 <p> This is Jenny. Several times a week, on the way home from school, she and her three sisters and their three girl friends from down the hall descend on my office. My desk drawers are ransacked, building keys temporarily pocketed, papers scattered, all while I vainly struggle for control of my computer mouse--convinced as they are that my computer must have games on it somewhere!?!<p> <center><img src="http://members.shaw.ca/mywebspace88/eyes.jpg"></center><center><i>~~~</i></center> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_buckner Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Alex, these are charming shots, and make a good sequence. I also favor the last frame: the different ways of being relaxed and having fun. Keep shooting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abufletcher Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 ,,,<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 <center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/2874163-lg.jpg"></center> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry_lehrer Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 Alex, I am truly sorry that I had to leave Japan in 1989 (except I'm glad that I missed the Kobe earthquake). My job took me to England until 1994. Wow! what a different culture, except driving on the same side of the road. Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_buckner Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 Donald, I really like that shot of the leggy girls. I'm going to get a ticket and be on the same JAL flight as Sheldon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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