Our first full day in Japan was focused on one thing: SUMO! We had tickets (thanks James!) to the second-last day of the sumo tournament being held in Osaka. Off we went! I took a great deal of photos, and heavily culled them all, but it was difficult to not have a rather sizable collection of sumo photos (no pun intended) remain. I only kept the best though, so hopefully they capture some of the action that we saw!
Amazing shots!
You know, those little squid (Picture 3) are actually pretty tasty if cooked right. Definitely wouldn’t touch ’em raw.
So when are you two hitting up Akihabara? 😉
Darius,
Glad you liked the photos! It was my first real work-out with the D300, and it performed amazingly – I only wish I’d had the Tamron 28-300mm lens I’d ordered before I left…it would be a 450mm lens with the 1.5x crop factor, which would get me a lot closer to the action than my 18-200mm lens, which is 300mm on the top end. I even searched for it here in Japan – turns out it’s not even released yet, they had some sort of problem with the Nikon version and it won’t be out until May! The Canon one is out though – bah!
Regarding the squid, that’s funny – Ashley loves calamari, but seeing little squid in their raw form is somehow much less appealing than seeing them fried and covered in batter. 😉
We did Akihabara on Monday – that’s when we did Tokyo with our friend Andrew Shuttleworth who lives here. It was pretty crazy…although the big tech store outside the “old Akihabara” area was even more mind-blowing. Pictures coming of course (so many to process!).
that is so cool how you can get that close with your camera! wish i had one! i love taking pictures and looking at them i could be entertained for hours here!!