EkiBen and Beer.

Whats that you say? Eki means train station, Ben is short for Bento, which means boxed lunch and Beer, well that is universal. Put it all together and you get boxed-train-station-lunch and beer. On second thought it sounds better in Japanese.

All summer long i will be bullet training, driving and flying around Japan. For each leg of my trip I am going to share some of my thoughts on photography and being a photographer on the road, or train as it is today. I will share some shooting tips, tricks, ideas and any insight I may gain along the way.

In fact my first tip to share is this: every photographic job/experience no matter how mundane or exciting, how crazy busy or whatever I try to take something from it. There is always something learn from any situation and all that is required is that you keep your mind open to the possibilities. i would go even one step further and suggest that you should leave something of yourself as well. A fellow photographer once said to me, “…isn’t every picture we take really just a self portrait?” My thought to that was if it isn’t it should be.

Any way, back to lunch, beer and scenery whipping by at 300km

Jeff’s Japan