The Seagulls of Sadojima, Niigata

We finally attended the Earth Celebration 2019 festival at Sado Island off the coast of Niigata. There will be a separate post on that. Meanwhile, here are some photos of the beautiful seagulls we encountered while taking the ferry ride from Niigata port to Ryotsu port (Sado).

2018 Year-end Road Trip

For the fourth year in a row, we ended the year and started a new one with a road trip in Japan. This time, we went to Gifu and Nagano, exploring some of the old post towns and villages – Magome-juku, Tsumago-juku, Hida-Furukawa, Takayama and Narai-juku. Photographs don’t do justice to how beautiful these places […]

Favourite Photos from 2018

2018 has been a slow year for my photography. Being occupied with work, I could not dedicate as much time to taking photos as I would have liked to. Nevertheless, I did take some photos and as I started going through my Lightroom library, I realised that there were quite a few photos I shared […]

teamLab Borderless – Photoreel

A few days ago, I visited the teamLab Borderless installation at the Mori Building Digital Art Museum in Odaiba, Tokyo. And boy, what a spectacular experience that was. Photos or videos can’t capture the magic of what was on display, so I would strongly encourage anyone in Tokyo to not miss checking this one out. […]

Technology, Information and Decision Making

Technology has become ubiquitous in the world of information management. It would not be an exaggeration to suggest that almost every organization, irrespective of scale and domain, is using some form of technology solution for the purpose of information management. I have worked in the IT sector for many years and have been involved in […]

Photoshoot with Miyu (nudes)

Thanks to a wonderful in-studio nude photography workshop organized by Alfie Goodrich, I got to do a photoshoot with Miyu, who’s a Japanese model. It was a fun day where the workshop participants got ample time to experiment and try out different approaches. We all came back with a bunch of very satisfying photographs, thanks […]

Diversity in the Japanese Workplace

Diversity – a topic of frequent debate and discussion in business, but often contextualized in the narrower scope of gender and race. Being a foreigner working in Japan for two decades, I have come to understand that the concept of “diversity” goes beyond just men and women or racial profiles. It is my view that […]