I'm Back... with pictures of Tokyo, Japan

Well, I'm back! it's been one hell of a long time since I last updated this blog. As I've mentioned earlier, I was attending a work related evening course and I'm glad to announce that I've finished the course and barely passed it... but a pass is still a pass... so I'm done with all the reading and revising... haha

I've also picked up photography during this absence although I have been toying with the idea for sometime. Photography has always been a secondary hobby which supplements my watercolour art, but I decided to own a digital slr so that I can shoot better quality photos. So, I bought myself a brand new Pentax K10D, after much research and found that it is exactly what I wanted at a reasonable price.

I went to Tokyo, Japan for a week in August for work and I took the opportunity to go there 3 days earlier to tour around the city, and took lots of photos. Here are some of my favourites.

The Imperial Palace and residence of the Emperor of Japan, aka Kōkyo

Colourful fans and souvenirs at Asakusa

Beautiful Sunset at Sensoji Temple, Asakusa

Night scene at Ginza - I just love the contrast between the trailing
lights from the moving cars and the idling traditional bicycles

Have bikes will travel - more and more tokyo residents are
going green by riding bikes around the city centre

Traditional Japanese parade at Harajuku

KAWAII!! This little guy is so full of energy!

Hope you like my photos, comments are welcome.
Of course, this doesn't mean I'll stop painting and become a photographer instead.
Watercolour is still my first love, but obviously with this new toy, you'll see more photography stuff from now on too... :-)

More pictures of my trip to Tokyo in my Facebook: Album 1 and Album 2