21 December, 2025
Here Comes The Bride – A One-Shot Story
This photograph is a reminder of the benefits of waiting, combined with some local knowledge. It was made at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, a Shinto religious complex built to honor...
Floyd K. Takeuchi's Posts
30 September, 2025
Photographing An Iconic Location – A One Shot Story
My first camera, a birthday gift from my parents, was a Kodak Brownie Fiesta. All plastic, a simple viewfinder, and it used 127 film. Keep the sun over your shoulder, the Kodak ...
9 September, 2025
Tokyo At Night – A One-Shot Story
The goal of every travel photographer is to capture the essence of a place or a people in a single image. The challenge – beyond the obvious technical issues related to hauling ...
10 July, 2025
Tokyo Street Photography – A One Shot Story
First, an admission: I don’t get the term “street photography.” I’ve always assumed that’s what we did when we just called it photography. But I realize this is probably a gene...
28 March, 2025
Takayama in the Spring – A One Shot Story
As I write this the first days of March are quickly giving way to the promise of another magnificent Spring in Japan. Every photographer should have late March-early April marke...
24 November, 2024
Lesson Learned Again – A One Shot Story
Those of us who travel with film kits live on the knife edge of disaster every time we head out for a day of shooting. Most of our gear is likely 20 to 40 years old, very possib...
31 October, 2024
The Dancer – A One Shot Story
Every so often, if we’re lucky, we’re reminded just how important photography can be in people’s lives. I got lucky the other week when I received a message on Instagram from so...
29 June, 2024
One camera, One Lens – Testing the Photo Adage in Japan
Photography is chock full of sayings, adages, call them what you will. F8 and be there. Sunny 16. Most are grounded in some reality. But the one that I think has some applicatio...