side quest no. 02

photos of japan

I spent a month in Japan (and Korea) and used the trip to try my hand at photography. I’m a film nerd and have always loved images, so I wanted to dip my toes in. Here are the photos that survived the learning curve.

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Students and pedestrians gathered near a bright red temple gate
A masked passenger sitting beside a train window overlooking the sea
A taxi driver seen from the back seat
A man walking through a covered shopping arcade
A Japanese bathhouse with a Mount Fuji mural
A man sitting among deer
A blue truck and bicycle near a railway crossing
A suited man carrying bags along a sunlit street in Japan
A worker standing at a neighborhood intersection beneath power lines
Commuters descending the stairs at a city train station
A cyclist framed through an open industrial window
Two pedestrians crossing a graphic city intersection
Two passengers looking out from a ferry toward islands in the sea