Day 19: 📷 birthday (@crossingthethreshold) #mbApr

In Japan orchids like this are usually presented as gifts to celebrate a new shop opening. Happy birthday! 🎈🥳

White orchids set out on the sidewalk in front of a new store selling clothing and accessories for small dogs

Visited my friend @hermosawavephotography.com at his Kyotographie exhibition featuring his book “Empty Kyoto”

The exhibit runs until Sunday so get down there to see prints and hear some stories about the photos. hermosawavephotography.com/emptykyot…

#photography #kyoto

Chad and Daniel pose in front of some framed images on the wall. Chad holds a signed copy of Daniel’s bookDaniel signed the inside cover of Chad’s book: “To Chad - Thanks for your support”. In the background is a pamphlet for KyotographieDisplay with postcards and calendars for saleSign describing what Empty Kyoto is about. In English the sign says: &10;&10;A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity&10;As the center of Japan's culture, and capitol for over 1000 years, Kyoto has often been bedeviled by overtourism.&10;&10;In 2020 & 2021 however, the crowds disappeared, offering a unique chance to capture the city's natural beauty without distractions.&10;&10;Empty Kyoto is a compilation of these photographs, a document of this once-in-a-litetime period.

Started Slow Productivity by Cal Newport 📚 on recommendation of @pratik

Day 18: 📷 mood (@agilelisa) #mbApr

Every time I ride my bike past this…

A life-sized medical human skeleton model stands in front of a shop cosplaying as Anya from Spy Family… ?

Whoa I felt that quake in Oita all the way here in Osaka! Long! #earthquake #Japan #地震

Day 17: 📷 transcendence (@drewbelf) #mbApr

You are connected to those in the past, in the present, and the future. You are transcendent.

(📸 This is my family altar 仏壇 🙏📿)

a thin line of smoke rises from a single stick of lit incense in front of a Buddhist family altar

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Day 16: 📷 flâneur (@chrisaldrich) #mbApr

Daughter got some new kicks and immediately decorated them in her style. She travels at her own pace. 🌈✌️

A pair of brand new converse with hand coloured multicolour laces tied in unorthodox style, and marker lines on the toecaps to make them look like animal feet

Day 15: 📷 small (@jmanes) #mbApr

Since I started this April photo challenge my 12 year old daughter has been inspired and has been participating with her iPhone. Today she took a better “small” photo than I did so I am posting hers in lieu of mine (with due credit!) 👏

Closeup of a small black beetle on a green leaf held by a girl's thumb

The next stop of my (unplanned) specialty coffee tour of Kitahama #Osaka is Brooklyn Roasters, right on the river with a fantastic patio. The shop is a combination coffee ☕️ and flower 💐 shop! Oh the smells! 🥰

Paper Coffee cup with Brooklyn Roasters branding on a weather worn wooden table with a river in the backgroundChad stands on a riverside patio holding a Brooklyn Roasters coffee cup

Enjoying a pour over and cookie at the School Bus Coffee Stop in Kitahama #Osaka ☕️

Full coffee cup and a cookie wrapped in a coffee filter. Both the filter and the cup have the School Bus Coffee Shop logo on them

This morning when I woke up to gentle sunlight and blue sky coming through my window, while everyone else was still sleeping in, I started A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 📚

Day 14: 📷 cactus (@christopherchelpka) #mbApr

Last Xmas my daughter gave me this little felt cactus to put on my desk so I would have some green around me that wouldn’t die 🌵

(In the background is a photo of my daughters in their kimono 👘🥹)

A small felt cactus in front of a photo of two girls wearing bright kimono holding hands

Day 13: 📷 page (@robj) #mbApr

After finishing off a 250 page notebook, I recently bought a new Leuchtturm1917 in Stone Blue. Also got a new Uni Jetstream Edge in a matching colour. More on journaling: chadkohalyk.com/2021/02/0…

Macro photo of two notebooks, black on bottom and blue on top, with a pen sitting on top.

What a day! 🌞 Sports Day ⚽️🏅🏃‍♀️ for the school so I was out in the sun all day photographing the kids. OD’ing on Vitamin D right now. Need a shower and a lie down.

Day 12: 📷 magic (@DaveyCraney) #mbApr

The cherry blossoms are almost done 🌸! Here are fortune slips that must not have told of the best future, so were left behind.

Check the Replies to see a gallery of other charms and magical items I captured on today’s ride.

#桜　#Japan

Fortune slips knotted on lines at a temple. In the background a sakura tree and belltower

Day 11: 📷 sky (@jedda) #mbApr

Today was cloudy, so I decided to go shoot the Umeda Sky Building in the dark for you. Of course, I had to get some sakura 🌸 in there. Check the replies for some closeups of the hole that goes to the 40th F roof and daytime shots

Wide angle of the Umeda Sky Building from the ground. The building is actually two, capped off with a roof with a giant hole in it. Two escalators carry people up and down through the hole to the top floors. Two cherry blossom trees in the foreground.

During my walk today… a school that pretty much every child wants to go to #osaka #anime #esports

Entrance to the 大阪アニメ・声優&eスポーツ専門学校English sign for the Osaka College of Anime & eSports

Day 10: 📷 train (@starrwulfe) #mbApr

The Nintendo Train through the cherry blossoms 🍄👸🚋🌸

zoom photo through a sakura tree to a train crossing a bridge. Next to the bridge is another sakura tree in full bloom. The train is wrapped with a Super Mario World design for Universal Studies Japan, with depictions of the Princess, some Shy Guys, and more characters from the franchise

It has been mostly cloudy, but I have gotten a few 🌸 cherry blossom shots and put them up on Flickr if you wanna have a quick scroll www.flickr.com/photos/sa…