Finished a workshop called Photoshoot Grunge where we had a few models participating in Nagano City, Japan on behalf of Magee Salon. My wife Yoyo Miyazawa did the styling along with some of her talented co-workers. Photographs were later post processed in Photoshop using various techniques developed over the past couple of years. […]

One of the things I like to do quite often is shoot photographs to be used later in Photoshop. In this particular shot, I knew that I wanted to work on three colors which were the blue in the sky, the orange in the rust, and the brownish color in the concrete. Taking […]

Colors in photography is something I like to shoot very much. In this shot I really like the green lantern against the bright orange background. I found this scene at a nearby temple in Nagano City Japan. I was going for some subject isolation work, but not like blurring the background, but […]

This is a sign I photographed that was standing alonside an old abandoned railway in Nagano city Japan. The railway was abandoned meaning it no longer appeared to be in use. The sign I thought was pretty cool and felt it would be a great photo to experiment with in Photoshop. After […]

Today I was out hanging around these railroad tracks I live by. This particular area of the tracks is quite cool because there are no fences and you can literally walk out onto the tracks if you want to. Anyway, while I was sitting and waiting for some trains to pass I happened […]

Today I went out for a bit and tooks some street photo shots around this part of Nagano City. It was a pretty nice day and I seemed to find some interesting subjects to shoot. I also found some great stuff that I enjoyed post processing in Photoshop to give it that Digital […]

When I was a young kid, my dad had a huge interest in photography. He owned a Leica and shot a lot of black and white film. Later he would develop the film in his own private darkroom and then create some really cool photo albums for the family. Unfortunately he gave […]

Some people have emailed me asking where I live in Japan. By car, I live about 5 minutes from Zenkoji, Temple which is located at the heart of Nagano-city. So you might say I live in Nagano city. Zenkoji is connected to the city which means I have a HUGE area to […]

Here are some fun shots of my two girls out having fun around Zenkoji Temple in Nagano, Japan. I had some fun post processing these in Photoshop with some color techniques. The T-shirts were sent to me by my folks in Seattle. My wife is getting into the whole matching clothes thing […]

Recently I have noticed a large increase in Graffiti or tagging as they say around the Nagano, Japan area. I’ve lived in Nagano for about 5 years now and have definitely seen a steady increase. I am not exactly sure if there are any gangs or if it’s simply individual artists out doing […]