The Mel and The Klaus

Looking through the next pictures to post from the last trip to California I realized that this post would have to be about two of my favourite people, Amalie (Mel, among friends in California) and my evil twin Klaus. I guess we were on our way to the Queen Mary this day. More photos from that later.

Love Love

Last Thursday Amalie and I could celebrate our 8 year wedding anniversary. We had the best day at home just hanging out and doing stuff...tried to keep the work stuff to a minimum. Later Amalie had prepared a surprise entertainment of the evening. We are both a bid whale crazy these days so when it turned out that we were gonna see a movie about whales and dolphins...in 3d then that was just perfect for a geek couple like us. After the movie we went out to eat at an Italian restaurant where there is only one menu a day. A whole bunch of starters of all sorts, original Italian tomato soup, pasta, main dish and desert... delish. After all that food we ended up on the couch for some more hanging out...Perfect day!

Jeg elsker dig baby!

I don't think my wife really needs any presentation...Here she is...and yes that is Gene Simmons.

Welcome to the family!!

Sooo...I am sorry that I have to skip a bit forward on our tales of this trip to Japan. Something happened today, something so big that I have to break that chronology of the many doings of ours here in Japan. "What can be so important" you might ask...I will tell you what:

It happend! I got my new camera!!

I am now the proud owner of a Canon 5d Mark II!

This is actually the same setup as I have now just with a nice fat batterygrip.

And what better day to get it than on my geek out day (part II) with fellow Camera geek and awesome photographer, Yes it's still Mattias Westfalk. When I came to myself again I met up with him in Shinjuku. We went to one of the big government buildings to have a good salaryman lunch in the cafeteria on 32rd floor. What a view for a lunch. Here the geekness started with some good conversations about what make a good photographer and what the difference is between a great photographer and a great photoshopper.
After lunch we decided to drop by the 46th floor for an even more crazy view over Tokyo. Since there wasn't any juice on my brand new camera I had to document these hights with my other little friend the LOMO LC-A+ so you will have to wait a bit to see those picture till I get the film back.
More geekness shopping was then done in Yodabashi camera where I got myself a nice little softbox for my flashgun! Looking forward to try that out. From here we went on a nice little walk to Harajuku where I picked up the bag mentioned in earlier post from last Geek trip. You would think that that would be enough shopping for one day but why stop there? We were gonna meet up with Amalie who were in Shibuya anyway so we thought that we might as well meet in Tower Records. Since we were there anyway I got myself the Watchmen graphic novel and a new tattoo book and then I fell over a classic that was too cheap to resist, Moby Dick. I have been fascinated with the story since I was a kid but never read the story. But here was an addition with notes, maps and illustrations so cheap that I had to get it. I was supposed to finish a great Whale rib piece tomorrow but he had to reschedule till Saturday! Dang it. Anyway, whale tattoo action soon and I have a feeling that it won't be the last whale scenery I will be doing!
After a great bowl of ramen we decided to head home before it started pooring down as the weather report had foreseen.
On the Shinjuku station Mattias wanted to show us a great cake place so instead of changing to the train on the other side of the track as we usually do we went down into the station. Next to the cake place there were these big walls of light that most likely usually have add on them. But not today. We had to try out the skills of the new Canon in front of these great light sources. Here is a few quick snaps that we took before heading home with the cake that by the way was delich.






Later we watched Little Miss Sunshine and ate before mentioned cake with vanilla ice cream!!

What an awesome day in Tokyo!

Follow that little green coat

I have been playing with my newest toy, the canon 24-105mm lens that I got myself yesterday at this amazing camera shop in Nakano that also sells used stuff and usually in brand new condition but for less than half price. I just noticed a pattern when I looked at the pictures from our trip to Ikebukuro today. Amalie was in most of the pictures in one way or the other and sometimes more than other. I even captured a bit of other green things on our way. It was a good day by the way.