Japanese Bride, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
Japanese Bride, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
For me Japan was a very strange and weird country. Because it was the most formal and regulated place I have ever been to. Nobody really talks to you and even I found it hard-going to make contact as I knew no one there. “This is going to be a hard place to photograph, ” I thought. I headed for the Imperial Palace Gardens in Tokyo and to my pleasant surprise there was the old traditional wedding ceremony in progress. This lady I had spotted, was at first was very shy to be photographed. But I liked the face so much that I waited until she came out of the wedding hall. Then I asked her again: “Could I make a picture of you please?”
And she agreed.
To this day it is my favourite photo I took in Japan.
For me Japan was a very strange and weird country. Because it was the most formal and regulated place I have ever been to. Nobody really talks to you and even I found it hard-going to make contact as I knew no one there. “This is going to be a hard place to photograph, ” I thought. I headed for the Imperial Palace Gardens in Tokyo and to my pleasant surprise there was the old traditional wedding ceremony in progress. This lady I had spotted, was at first was very shy to be photographed. But I liked the face so much that I waited until she came out of the wedding hall. Then I asked her again: “Could I make a picture of you please?”
And she agreed.
To this day it is my favourite photo I took in Japan.
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