Experiencing Japan is experiencing an unfolding… Arrival is different from entering Japan.  Layers emerge in narrowing neighborhood streets, in gated temple confines, on mountain trails, in homes and the intricate kindnesses of the people.  I felt fortunate to spend five weeks in Japan on my way to and from Nepal as the colors of autumn…

Our perception is more like a double exposure. We simultaneously see both micro and macro, details and big picture. The image above is a layering of two photographs made on the same day in Kamakura, Japan.  The koi is a temple fish, huge, old and sacred.  The graffiti scratchings were inside the great Daibutsu, Great…