Pen & Ink Sketches Japan

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Roaming the streets in Hokkaido, Japan. These sketches are done on location with pen, brush and black Indian ink. The winter scenes show ice crystal patterns that formed in the ink wash while sketching in sub-zero conditions … Read on »

Maps

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The bicycle touring experience is determined by a jagged, uninterrupted path, as opposed to an itinerary. That’s really all there is to it — a scratch in the terrain, a maze through a city, a line on a map … Read on »

Japan in Monochrome

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This is the start of what I intend to be an extensive photo essay on Japan—shot entirely on film—and hopefully the world if I decide that the value of a 35mm SLR out weighs the inconvenience and physical cost of luging it around. This is an old issue for me that comes up every time I hit the road.

Here is the first film I’ve scanned since receiving the film scanner three weeks ago. The film was shot December 2009, … Read on »

Hand Painted Signage in Asia

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I just spent the weekend trying to (finally) bring this new version of my website up-to-date, reposting the old journals and attempting to put some sort of logical order to things. And I figured while I’m at it I should finish sorting out my photographs from the first stage and archive them properly. It was the first time I’ve looked through the images of the journey in their entirety. Frankly, I would sooner have spent the day climbing one of … Read on »