ใใ้กใใฆใไบบby Araki Nobuyoshi was one of my most recent reads. I read it in Chinese but I can't find an English copy anywhere yet; it introduced me a new way of understanding portrait photography. Portraits can look so much better if the photographer can do their job well -in terms of bettering the facial expressions of the models. My sister is one of those whose got the good expressions that turn out really well in photos, unlike mine which looks unnatural all time. Apart from being my travel partner, that's one of the reasons why you see her all the time on this space. I guess my photography style has experienced another shift -from macro to landscape to architecture to street photography- and I'm really enjoying the change. I guess I'm still not a real street photographer / almost impossible to be one with a flashy DSLR in my hands but there's so much fun in shooting people in different settings (creeper alert). But yeah privacy is an issue, which is why I normally creep and shoot strangers.
Back to the trip, it's our last day in Osaka and we just had to visit the Osaka Castle. Japanese hotels/airbnb had this 10am-checkout-3pm-checkin thing so there's a 5 hour gap where you'd have to lug your luggage everywhere. Thank god for the luggage deposit service in Umeda/Osaka Station for extra huge luggage! There was a UVERworld concert at the City Hall in the evening, which explained the long queue since 10 a.m. I really like how the castle is surrounded by a park (so many students were running in shorts in winter omfg) and we can't help but imagined how people had to walk such distance to meet the emperor.
Before leaving Umeda we gave up visiting the Louvre No.9 exhibition and opted for okonomiyaki we haven't had in the last few days. Around 2 p.m., we bid goodbye to Osaka and headed for Kyoto.
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