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This time of year i’m usually packing my bags, getting ready to go lose myself in Japan for a couple of amazing weeks, but as our Honeymoon carried over into January, going again this year wasn’t really possible. Today is actually three years to the day from our first arrival in Tokyo, so for the [...]

At work we all tend to make our own desktop backgrounds quite often, sometimes desigining something from scratch but usually by editing photos we’ve taken in that past to turn them into something interesting to look at. Here are couple of mine..

Scouring my photo collection, i’ve come up with a final few amusing Janglish signs for your pleasure, enjoy!

Meet Claude, he’s an 8 year old Bear who currently lives in Asa Zoo, Hiroshima. He could seriously kick your ass. Unrelated: WordPress 3… ooooooooo…..

A while ago I posted a collection of amusing examples of Janglish I came across during my Japan adventures, time for some more!

Rejigged my original Time Lapse Kyoto footage.. bumped up the saturation and added some lens blur to turn it into a moving tiltshift! Pretty happy with how this turned out, i’d recommend checking it out over on youTube for the high resolution version!

Back here in the UK, building any kind of addition onto your home involves a ton of paperwork and red tape. By the looks of thing in Japan all you need is a few bits and pieces from your local hardware store and a bit of time! Here are a few unique extensions I came [...]

Technically, Janglish refers to expressions that sound like English and are used by the Japanese when speaking Japanese but is also used when mentioning amusing  mistranslations too. During my visits i’ve encountered a good few firsthand, so here are a few amusing examples along with some downright funny/unfortunate choices for brands and shopnames!

When we visited Iwatayama Monkey Park in Kyoto last year, I spent a bit of time shooting several shots of the landscape with the plan to combine them into a Panoramic. Finally, here’s the result!