New Construction

Great depth! 

great thoughtful shot. in a world apparently stripped of all things natural (even the light is colorless) extracting a bit of soil seems like a such a careful, almost surgical process. great lines in this one. 

...and they are coming nearer.

 

Thanks for the comments on this one. I live in aa old neighborhood of small houses and twisting streets, some so narrow that cars can't fit through. People grow flowers and plants in front of their houses and park their bicycles there. The scale is intensely human, the shops and cafes are small and most of the houses are two stories. It was one of the few neighborhoods that escaped American bombing in WWII and some of the buildings date from that time and earlier. A resident once told me that it hadn't changed much in 50 or 60 years. But this neighborhood is also located adjacent to a developing commercial area whose concrete towers rise twenty-five or thirty stories into the sky. There streets are crowded with shoppers. In modern Japan that's what often passes for recreation. Consequently, developers have turned their avaricious gaze to old Nakazakicho where I live. Why, it's a place of opportunity; one can only imagine the money to be made. I've lived here for eight years and am now witnessing the passing of a community; a death by a thousand and a thousaand thousand small bites.