There was farm fair in my city a while ago and among the agricultural exhibits, there was a bovine manual lactation extraction simulator. I didn’t get to try my hand though because this cowboy came to clean the fiberglass animal’s insides via trapdoor. The sequence was shot with a Supersampler camera. It has four lenses [...]
A smiling oni (ogre, demon) in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido. The onsen town that is home to Hell Valley and holds an annual Hell Festival is full of hordes of sculpted demonic creatures. Some line the road as tourist photo-ops and others, like this guy, are in shrines. Taken up close on my Fujifilm INSTAX mini 50 [...]
I woke up late on Sunday, August 29th and didn’t think I’d get to catch the running of the 2010 Hokkaido Marathon. Even though the course winds through the heart of Sapporo, I forgot how long marathons actually are and how much time they take to complete. Walking near the Akarenga — the 19th century [...]
Here’s a selection of four shots snapped in Sapporo on a Fujifilm INSTAX mini 50 “Cheki” camera. Lo-fi love
Sculpting class, friends, and magicians!
I take pictures of people with instant cameras. I found an old Fujifilm Instax 200 camera in the junk bin at HARD OFF. It cost 500 yen and came with a disclaimer warning that it may not work. The camera, which is almost the size of my head and looks like a “My First Camera” [...]
