I know I have not written in a while. For that I apologize. Rather than sitting in my room and writing essays on my self-reflections I have been out, enjoying the newly warmed temperature, and taking hundreds and hundreds of pictures. Today I went to the famous Fish Market in Tsukiji and shot, in a matter of two hours, over 200 photos – almost 1.5gigs! The little bar on the right with the pictures is all my favorite photos uploaded on Flickr so that I at least have the option to protect and reserve all rights to my images, as well as providing me a huge gallery to view in and of itself. Flickr is the largest and in my opinion, the best, online photo community on the net. Please take a look if you feel so inclined.

I think I have come to the conclusion that photography is the second most important thing in my life right now. The first is, of course, health, fitness, diet, exercise, and fighting. I have gotten into quite a nice routine of going to school or the gym in Sendagaya, then just spending the rest of the day wondering around Tokyo seeing what sights I can find and take pictures of. My photo folder on my harddrive is almost up to 16gigs and contains thousands of images I have taken.

Soon, with the dawn of a new spring in Japan, I will be out even more and hope to attend at least a few Spring Cherry Blossom festivals that are had in and around Japan.

I want to work on a artistic/photo journalist portfolio. For now, I am not trying to make this anything more than just a career, but I will never put it either above my abilities or below my interest level. I have vivid dreams of taking pictures, and it has come to be that the click of the shutter is my new Zen.