Just a Peek of Zenkoji, Temple in Nagano City Japan before the New Year 2008 festivities.

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Here is a young Nagano city school girl taking a walk through one of the big major temples in Nagano city. Compared to school girls in Tokyo and Yokohama, the girls in Nagano are quite conservative in majority, but they all exhibit an innocence that is quite unique to Japan.

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Took this shot today of a train heading past Kita Nagano Station. It was flying right past me. Pretty cool. I chose black and white for this photo because I thought it fit the mood pretty well. The color shot was great and I may post if eventually, but for now […]

A while back I did a photoshoot in Nagano Japan on the topic of High Key and using Flash. The following photographs and others were entirely shot using Nikon SB-800 flashes. This is a popular topic with a lot of friends who I shoot with and so when we get a chance to […]

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. […]

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 […]

Photoshot Japan is a new website dedicated to photography, workshops, photographers, and all things photo in Japan. I noticed that there was an abundant of information in most other countries, but very little in Japan. I thought I would try to change this a little and make it possible for Japan area photographers […]

There’s a ton of places to check out in Tokyo for photography, but here are a few popular places along the “Yamanote Train Line” that circles the Tokyo area. Each location is a station as well.
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Konnichiwa! Welcome aboard!  My name is Jim Atwood and I’m originally from Seattle, Washington USA.  In 1993 I quit my job, sold off everything I owned, and took off for Tokyo, Japan.  I wanted to get out and see the world and that’s I what I did.  I currently reside in Nagano, Japan after […]