Back in Nagoya for the holidays, I set up a tripod for the station’s ‘Dream Promenade’ illuminations — only to find the subway below causing camera shake.

COUNTDOWN JAPAN 09/10 — my second festival ever. This time I dropped the self-consciousness and danced. From Perfume to Sakamoto Ryuichi to Unicorn.

Today I picked up a remote shutter release and a tripod. To test them out, I photographed the camera lens itself and some keys.

Marunouchi Illumination 2009 with the new DSLR: ISO, white balance, shutter speed — illumination photography is humbling, but Ginza at night shoots like daytime.

Hit with an overtime restriction and told to take four days off, I grabbed a Seishun 18 ticket and headed north — to a gyutan restaurant in Sendai, DSLR in hand.