Welcome to a Monte-Carlo sample of my Japanese Sidewalks! I made the photos during my very first trip to Japan, in September 1989. It was a very hectic month for me, involving three conferences in Tsukuba, Tokyo, and Okayama, framed with many impressions from Yokohama, Nikko, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Sapporo, Tottori, Kamakura, ...
Method: An exciting route Praha-Moscow-Khabarovsk (plane) - Nachodka-Yokohama (ship), and an overused Japan Rail Pass... Snaps taken with two light Pentax cameras (MG & Super A) with lenses 17, 28, 40-80, 70-210 mm. And Christmas days '89 in my darkroom ... Sorry for rather large JPGs (40-70k): you know, "reasonable photographers" :-) does not like to compromise quality of their black-and-white originals ...
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