Yesterday was over 34˚c and I’ve spend the afternoon in Yoyogi park drinking ice tea and playing DS. I saw many people walking their dog, I even saw a crazy lady walking her cat in a baby stroller. But it was the first time I saw someone bring a turtle to the park and made it walk for 2-3 meter, you know just to stay heathy. I have to admit, I found the little creature pretty cute, now I want a turtle!

Sorry it been a while since I posted some photos, but I’ve been pretty busy with work, photo lessons and actually shooting some pictures around the city. But I bring you a pretty nice post today with six HDR shots of the downtown of Yokohama, I hope you like them and I will try to post photos everyday again.

Gaijin season is now at it peak, even though summer might be the worst time of the year to visit Tokyo, people from all around the world come to Japan for their summer vacation. I guess most don’t have the luxury to choose when they can take their vacation, but if you do, I highly recommend you to come during Spring au Fall. Hanami season being the absolute best moment to come of course.

This is the southern part of Shinjuku, it has a lot of nice restaurants and fun fun game stations ( arcades ). There is also a nice camera shop that sells used lens and SLR. They don’t have as good deal as fujiya camera in Nakano, but it always nice to drop by and see what they have in stock.

I posted a photo of the entrance of this temple a while ago. I was walking again in Yokohama chinatown with some friends, and I just need to take a photo of this temple every time I see it, especially at night.

A young Japanese girl university student is taking a nap in the grass just outside the school. It was sweating hot outside I don’t know how she could stay there in the sun without dying of a heat stroke. Is it a hot summer now in your country or are you enjoying something more mild than Tokyo?

Last night the match between Paraguay and Japan took place in Loftus Versfeld Stadium, and after a long goalless game, Japan was defeated 5-3 in penalty shoot-out. They give an amazing performance at this 2010 World Cup and all of Japan is very proud of their team. By the way, I took this photo in Shibuya from the 19th floor of the Excel Hotel . Enjoy!

This is my favorite spot to take long exposure photos of cars around shibuya. It just outside the Toyoko line terminal, there is a lot of pedestrians bridge that gives great vantage point over the streets below.

This is such a typical Tokyo-ish scenery, the scooter fit perfectly in that spot. But why there is an opening in the wall anyway? It almost look like the restaurant was built around the scooter.

The other day I had some time to waste in Shinjuku and I got pretty lucky. I was walking around the small street east of the station, and then I decided to go up the stairs near the Takashimaya to reach the southern terrace. And then only for a few minutes the sky color change to a bright orange as if it just burst on fire. Took out my cam, found a nice spot to set it on a fix position and took 3 shoot to create this HDR.

I’m not a big football fan, but the ambiance the World Cup brings to Japan is phenomenal. Around 500 people gathered outside Bic Camera in Shibuya to watch the game on televisions the store kindly brought outside. The Samurai Blue made it to the round of sixteen by defeating Denmark last friday. Best of luck to the team!

Fake tilt shift of course, I did it for fun. But I hope one day I can afford a tilt shift lens.