Japan for Photographers & Camera Travelers

About this book

Japan rarely refuses a photograph — it refuses, quietly, the unprepared one. This guide maps 200 photographic scenes across Japan, each audited on a single measure: its suitability for being photographed well and welcome. Sacred peaks and Fuji's appointed viewpoints, cities at blue hour, gardens and shrine frames, working harbours and island coasts, rivers and waterfalls, railways and everyday streets, the colour of the seasons and their festivals, and a full photographer's handbook of light, tripods, consent and care. Every entry gives the photographic case, exactly where to stand and in what sequence to shoot, the light and season that compose the scene, and the permission, people and care the place asks for. Photography rules, access and hours change, so none are asserted as fixed facts; every entry names the official source for its subject — while the durable part, how to read and respect each scene, is guaranteed in full. There are no photographs in this book, deliberately: it is the half of the craft that happens before the shutter.