One week, a stack of photos and I feel myself falling in love with Tokyo’s ‘Rainbow Bridge’.

I get around Tokyo. Some weeks I might walk 60km around the place, working, searching-out locations for shoots and photowalks or just shooting pics for myself. It’s a great city and a great city for getting creatively lost in when you don’t really know your way. However, the GPS on my new iPhone 3GS is sort of putting-paid to ever getting even creatively lost again!

So, last week my son and I head off to Odaiba to check out using the old fort there for a fashion shoot on the coming weekend. We’d been to a few spots in Odaiba but never the fort. I took the tripod with me as the sun was dipping and by the time we got there, I thought, it might be a good time for shooting some HDRs. And, boy, was I right!

The Jetty….

So, happy that some fine HDRs had gone into the camera, Joe and I had a bit of an explore: great wooded areas, some great cubby-holes, the old gun mounts for the cannons and then; we found ‘the jetty’. Oh my word, what  location that would make for a model to stand on, I said to Joe. I had in mind this French Lieutenant’s Woman scene; the stone jetty jutting out into the bay, wind blowing the waves and spray over the desolate figure of a woman……

….cut to Sunday’s shoot, add two brave models and this is what transpired:

The finale….

Lots more fine and dandy shots online here tomorrow morning, from the students we had along last Sunday. But, for now, you can see some of Alexander’s by clicking here.

The crowning glory of this week of the Rainbow Bridge came on Wednesday morning, when I woke up to find an email in my inbox from the Reviews Editor of a British photography magazing in the UK which is running a feature on ‘top street photographers of the world’. I had been working with her on an interview and had submitted some street pics for the feature. She’d seen the photo of Akiko on the jetty and shown the mag’s art director, who’d loved it immediately. So, look out for the December issue [No.90] of Digital Photographer magazine…. the opening spread is the pic of Akiko and there is at least one more full-page shot from me in the feature. Yay!