Nate in Japan

Early 2005 I moved to Japan to see a little bit more of the world. One of the first things I did when I got here was buy a digital camera - a little Pentax Optio S5i "point and shoot" (big mistake - don't buy one of those if you can avoid it). Originally I set up this flickr account as a kind of online photo diary - a place to show all the people back home a little of what I am experiencing.

Since then things have changed somewhat. Somewhere along the line I remembered what it was like to be a photographer and I missed it. To that end I started planning my shots: staking out positions to capture interesting moments, thinking about photographic composition and lighting rather than just thoughtlessly pushing a button. Then, mid 2006 I lashed out and bought a Nikon D50. From that point on the world of photography changed for me.

Now in my photo stream, instead of seeing ameteur-ish snapshots you will (hopefully) find photos actually worth looking at! Of course you will also find some fairly average images of the "point and shoot" kind (usually taken while drunk at karaoke) but (fingers crossed) the good should now outweigh the bad.

While I am by no means a "Pro" yet I'm working on it. More and more people are enquiring about my work and recently a Japanese Restaurant in England commissioned a whole series of my images for their display. You can also find one of my images in Metropolis Magazine (issue 664/2006), the leading magazine for foreigners in Japan.

It's a start...

Now I have three flickr accounts. This one is still kind of like my online diary, only I am focusing more on high quality images these days rather than the snap shots I started out taking. I have another account to host my studio/studio-esque portraits and a third that hosts only the best images from both accounts.

Click below to see my studio work.

Or click here for the best of both accounts.

If you want to contact me outside of flickr you can email me here.

My Equipment:

Nikon D50

Nikor Lens 18-55

Nikor Lens 70 - 300

Pentax Optio S5i (only used under extreme circumstances)