In just a few days, the wild adventure gets underway. Even now, I’m not sure where the first destination is. Rain and snow will soon blow in to Japan from the northeast. I shall travel with the sun, in search of beauty.
I am a fair-weather photographer, my hobby is also hitchhiking, and I shall be travelling with a portable IBM computer. The aim is to search for beauty.
An amateur photographer who takes landscape and cityscape photos, is hardly an artist. The real artists are the architects and designers who create the buildings, or the skilled craftsmen who meticulously chisel and saw the temples and shrines, or the One who paints the sky with such wondrous colours in the mornings and evenings and adds the gloss to the green leaves with the rain. No, a photographer merely tries to capture the aesthetically pleasing angle or colour or fall of the light.