Edmonton Visit

An update after many, many months! These photos are from a trip Inna, Amos, and I took back in March/April. We went over to Edmonton to visit friends for a few days and enjoy the change of scenery. All photos are taken on Provia 100F with my Fujifilm TX-1 (Xpan). Despite the weather being quite […]

Winter in the interior

This past February my family spent a weekend up in the interior of British Columbia. We stayed a couple nights in Osoyoos, about a five hour drive from Vancouver. Osoyoos is typically a summer destination. Being Canada’s only desert, the weather is quite nice and the lake there gets very warm and is popular with […]

The New Kodak Ektachrome

So the new Ektachrome has been out for quite a while now, but I thought I would give my thoughts on it anyways. I was away when it was released and then had to wait for my local store to get any in stock but it has rarely disappointed and is a beautiful, fine-grained E-6 […]

Fujifilm Venus 800

Venus 800 was a film I had never heard of until I went to Japan last year. Of course it being a new (to me) high ASA film I had never heard of, I had to buy some to test out. I was pleasantly surprised by the results. The photos turned out surprisingly fine grained […]

Magome and Tsumago

After leaving Hiroshima, we caught the bullet train on the way to our last stop before we had to leave from Tokyo. We spent one night in Magome, an old post town on the historic Nakasendo highway. The Nakasendo highway is one of two old Edo period paths between Kyoto and Edo (modern day Tokyo). […]

Visiting the Sacred Island Miyajima

The morning after Typhoon Trami blew over, we went on a day trip down to Miyajima. We were very surprised to find that the weather was gorgeous, a beautiful sunny day! It was a short train ride to the ferry, and the ticket to the island was included with our JR passes which was a […]

Himeji and Hiroshima

After leaving Osaka we planned to make a stop at Himeji to visit maybe (probably) the most famous castle in Japan. We also got to visit my friend Jack from back home who is living nearby teaching English. We again hopped on the Shinkansen down to Himeji which did not take long at all, from […]

Four days in Osaka

After leaving Shingu, we made our way to Osaka. It was quite a long train ride, but there is lots of nice scenery to watch because the train follows the coast. We found our airbnb without too much trouble and it happened to be located very close to the longest covered shopping street in Japan, […]

Nachikatsuura and Japan’s tallest waterfall

So continuing where I left off in the last post, we took the train from the bottom of Mount Koya all the way around the Wakayama peninsula to a town called Shingu, close to Nachikatsuura. When planning the trip I had hoped we could take a bus from Koyasan down the opposite side of the […]

Journey to Koyasan

The route from Kyoto to Koyasan, a mountain-top Buddhist settlement, was a bit of a journey. Although they don’t look very far apart on the map it took most of the day to get there. We left Kyoto in the morning and took the train to Hashimoto where we changed lines to take us up […]