A ride with a colleague from Tabata: Senju Ohashi, Oji, Tokyo University, Tokyo Tower — starting with a chatty ‘bicycle safety instructor’ showing us printed photos of folding bikes.

While looking for an efficient way to post a lot of photos, I found this: Gallery It’s in English, but at a level I can just about manage.

Not mine — it’s from work, unfortunately. With all the business travel lately, a high-speed mobile data card finally made an appearance.

I got a random craving for gyoza and picked some up from Gyoza no Ohsho. If you go at mealtimes, even takeout for pan-fried gyoza involves a 30-minute wait.

A Sports Day loop through Tokyo’s core: Imperial Palace runners, the Diet Building under maintenance, the Supreme Court — all photographed from the saddle.

I’d arranged to skip work today due to the typhoon — but by the afternoon, the storm had passed and blue sky opened up, so I headed out to practice with the ca…

Camera practice at home with the new EOS Kiss X3: lining up bottles at different distances to compare background blur at F4.5 and F9 — and the compact camera couldn’t keep up.

I did it — bought a Canon EOS Kiss X3 twin-lens kit as a reward for surviving the overtime storm. First mission: night scenes a compact camera could never shoot.