Something cool in the land of photography (a.k.a Japan) is that we can still enjoy film photography like before the digital era. As you can see : the choice of films is still incredible! Fujifilm, Kodak, Ilford are all here in all kinds of format, ISO, color or black and white etc... You can also purchase all the accessories to develop yourself your own film, I think I am going to try that for the black and white films. For now, I ask Yodobashi Camera to develop my films and to burn... Read more

During my first trip in Japan 3 years ago I chose to become a member of Willing Worker On Organic Farm organization (a.k.a as WWOOF). It was my first real contact with organic work and culture. WWOOF organization requires a small fee in exchange of a list. This List contains informations about hosts in Japan who can welcome us. The deal is as follow : we work for them during 5/6 hours a day (usually in the early morning) and in exchange we can stay in their house and have lunch/dinner et... Read more

Here in Japan, Yahoo! is still number one in the internet business. We can find it everywhere (PC, mobile phone, TV, provider...) and established many years ago (it's important as the Japanese tend to be faithfull to brands : first in, first for long time!). So here Google, who came later, has to do what it doesn't really need in other countries : advertissement to explain what are its products! Few weeks ago I already spotted some advertissement for youtube on mobile: Second one... Read more

This morning at 7AM I took this shot in front of the Yodobashi Camera of Yokohama, about 100 people were waiting for the iphone 3G. I would not do that but it's quite funny I think... In Tokyo it was an other story, 1500 people, some of them waiting for 3 days. After the opening some waited all the day until the shop closed and then started queuing for tomorrow!! All the TVs channels and many blogs relayed the "event". Some pics here : dannychoo.com kirainet.com For me, today was a usua... Read more