On January 1, I reached my seventieth birthday, the traditional age known as koki. Ordinarily it is apparently reckoned by the old East Asian method, so I had already reached it last year. By my own [...] Read more

In Seattle I had the good fortune to watch an NHK Sunday Museum program titled “Ihei Kimura Photographs Paris in Natural Color.” I had long felt an affinity with Kimura's philosophy of [...] Read more

The Art of War was written some 2,500 years ago by Sun Wu, a general of China's Spring and Autumn period. Comprising thirteen chapters, it appears to be widely applied even to modern business [...] Read more

This time the work consists mainly of snapshots of people. Apart from a few frames, these are candid photographs taken before the subjects knew, sometimes without the viewfinder. People's everyday [...] Read more

The Leica Akademie workshop was held in a conference room at the Ace Hotel on 29th Street near Broadway in New York City. As one might expect of Leica's choice, it was a four-star hotel steeped in [...] Read more

The three days at the Leica Akademie workshop brought an enormous reward: I discovered the goal I should pursue. Perhaps that sounds grand after only a few days of study. Yet the exhilaration of [...] Read more

The Columbia River begins in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Canada. Forming some sixty tributaries, it crosses Washington State, passes through Oregon, and enters the Pacific after a journey of [...] Read more

Last month I attended a Leica Akademie workshop in Seattle. With eleven participants and three instructors, it was as rewarding as the one in New York. The theme was “Digital Black-and-White [...] Read more

Recently I have become interested in still-life painting. Whether deliberately arranged or found exactly as it is in daily life, vessels, food, and other objects each make their own assertion. They [...] Read more

Washington is nicknamed the Evergreen State for its forests of evergreen conifers such as western hemlock, western red cedar, and fir. Now, sparkling autumn leaves have appeared within that green [...] Read more