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Photo of the Day | March 24 | Wagasa, by Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos

L&C Team — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:37:33 +0000

A Wagasa, is a traditional Japanese umbrellas. It is made of bamboo and Washi, a Japanese paper. It is delicately collapsible inward with its elaborate open-close movement. The Wagasa I captured here is just one kind of the hundreds of verities they have in Japan. Once you see the verities of colors and designs they have, I guarantee that you’ll fall in love with them. This photograph was captured in November 25, 2010.

Technical Info: PENTAX K10D | 1/160 @ f/7.1 | Focal length 170mm | ISO 200
Title of the photograph: Wagasa
Photo of the Day Award Category: Color Photography
Photograph Location: Japan
Photographer:Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos (Osaka, Japan)
Jose Renteria born in Veracruz in december 17th 1973, raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, and currently living in Japan. He is a professional airline pilot and photography is his second professional priority, He has a professional photography Diploma and his is an everyday learner, aviation photography is his favorite topic followed by action, street, and landscape, except studio and multi flash photo. He founded in Japan that it is a very photogenic country (if not the most) He goes to every airport available to shoot aviation, travel to places to capture natute and colors, walk the streets in the night to capture the city lights and he always has a camera in my bag. He started photography in 2000 with a Canon rebel SLR but my real start was when I got his first DSLR, a PENTAX K10D, this camera changed his life. He is still a Pentax user and he will always be. Photography is not a business to him, it´s a way to play with time and space, people and things, it´s his escape from daily routine and an addiction with no harm. He always has goals and my next one is to start mastering portratit and strobist technique.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emisor73/?deleted=4180428141
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=815266596
Photo Gallery: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/joserenteria

Photo of the Day | October 20 | In love with Miyajima, by Ali Berrada

L&C Team — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:59:39 +0000

This is how I strated Photography, Miyajima is 30 km from Hiroshima and it’s one the most beautiful place in Japan. A wild island with this Tory “temple” in the middle of the sea.

Title of the photograph: In love with Miyajima
Photo of the Day Award Category: Travel Photography
Photograph Location: Miyajima | Japan
Photographer: Ali Berrada (Casablanca, Morocco)
Ali Berrada, is a freelance photographer, who started photography just a year ago. Photography is his passion, his life and his eyes. He likes simplicity in the beauty and creativity in the void.
Ali is from Casablanca Morocco. He is traveling the world trying to reach the perfect light, before to be from a country a continent he is from earth, trying to be a citizen of the world.
Ali believes, He just wants to stop time and take an instant moment that last forever.
Web: www.aliberrada.com
Flickr: www.flickr.com/imfromearth
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/aliberrada
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/aliberrada
FacebookPage: www.facebook.com/AliBerradapage

Photo of the Day | June 19 | Brothers by Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos

L&C Team — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:17:08 +0000

They are Emiliano and Nicolás, they share parents a house and a life as well as many other things, this day a shark was going to show up and they were just waiting anxious for it, the aquarium was dark and a ray of sunlight illuninated the pool, I decided to make the classic underwater silohuette with only my boys in the frame. The title was because I wanted them to see themselves form my point of view and to have that memories for ever.

Technical Info: PENTAX K10D | 1/180 | f/9.5 | lens 55mm | ISO 100
Title of the photograph: Brothers
Photo of the Day Award Category: Color Photography
Photograph Location: Japan
Photographer:Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos (Osaka, Japan)
Jose Renteria born in Veracruz in december 17th 1973, raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, and currently living in Japan. He is a professional airline pilot and photography is his second professional priority, He has a professional photography Diploma and his is an everyday learner, aviation photography is his favorite topic followed by action, street, and landscape, except studio and multi flash photo. He founded in Japan that it is a very photogenic country (if not the most) He goes to every airport available to shoot aviation, travel to places to capture natute and colors, walk the streets in the night to capture the city lights and he always has a camera in my bag. He started photography in 2000 with a Canon rebel SLR but my real start was when I got his first DSLR, a PENTAX K10D, this camera changed his life. He is still a Pentax user and he will always be. Photography is not a business to him, it´s a way to play with time and space, people and things, it´s his escape from daily routine and an addiction with no harm. He always has goals and my next one is to start mastering portratit and strobist technique.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emisor73/?deleted=4180428141
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=815266596
Photo Gallery: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/joserenteria

Photo of the Day | June 13 | Michinoku, by Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos

L&C Team — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:15:17 +0000

Michinoku is a natural park in the Tohoku region of Japan, the tulips I captured here are just a minimal part of the hundreds of thousands of flowers you can enjoy during the spring season in Japan, a place you can´t miss if you visit north east Japan.

Technical Info: PENTAX K10D | 1/350 @ f/6.7 | Focal lenght 100mm | ISO 100
Title of the photograph: Michinoku
Photo of the Day Award Category: Color Photography
Photograph Location: Japan
Photographer:Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos (Osaka, Japan)
Jose Renteria born in Veracruz in december 17th 1973, raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, and currently living in Japan. He is a professional airline pilot and photography is his second professional priority, He has a professional photography Diploma and his is an everyday learner, aviation photography is his favorite topic followed by action, street, and landscape, except studio and multi flash photo. He founded in Japan that it is a very photogenic country (if not the most) He goes to every airport available to shoot aviation, travel to places to capture natute and colors, walk the streets in the night to capture the city lights and he always has a camera in my bag. He started photography in 2000 with a Canon rebel SLR but my real start was when I got his first DSLR, a PENTAX K10D, this camera changed his life. He is still a Pentax user and he will always be. Photography is not a business to him, it´s a way to play with time and space, people and things, it´s his escape from daily routine and an addiction with no harm. He always has goals and my next one is to start mastering portratit and strobist technique.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emisor73/?deleted=4180428141
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=815266596
Photo Gallery: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/joserenteria

Photo of the Day | June 02 | Waterfall by Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos

L&C Team — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:10:18 +0000

Blue Impulse Japan Self Defense aerobatic team performing the waterfall maneuver at Matsushima Airbase (which was swept by the Tsunami in march 11) during the 50th anniversary of the team. Airshows are performed all year long along Japan airbases except for the rainy season in june and july, a great place to be to enjoy a different environment with lots of noise, food and drinks. You can see a big amount of gear and lenses all over like you´ve never seen before, Japanese photographers always have the most advanced and impressive stuff during airshows.

Technical Info: PENTAX K7 | 1/750 @ f 9.5 | Focal Length 300mm | ISO 100
Title of the photograph: Waterfall
Photo of the Day Award Category: Motion Photography
Photograph Location: Japan
Photographer:Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos (Osaka, Japan)
Jose Renteria born in Veracruz in december 17th 1973, raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, and currently living in Japan. He is a professional airline pilot and photography is his second professional priority, He has a professional photography Diploma and his is an everyday learner, aviation photography is his favorite topic followed by action, street, and landscape, except studio and multi flash photo. He founded in Japan that it is a very photogenic country (if not the most) He goes to every airport available to shoot aviation, travel to places to capture natute and colors, walk the streets in the night to capture the city lights and he always has a camera in my bag. He started photography in 2000 with a Canon rebel SLR but my real start was when I got his first DSLR, a PENTAX K10D, this camera changed his life. He is still a Pentax user and he will always be. Photography is not a business to him, it´s a way to play with time and space, people and things, it´s his escape from daily routine and an addiction with no harm. He always has goals and my next one is to start mastering portratit and strobist technique.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emisor73/?deleted=4180428141
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=815266596
Photo Gallery: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/joserenteria

Photo of the Day | May 29 | Autumn Red by Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos

L&C Team — Sat, 28 May 2011 10:13:24 +0000

I travelled to a very special place, named “Naruko” in north east Japan, it is considered one of the top 5 autumn best landscapes in the world, the colors there are intense and gorgeous, and you can feel the magic of the season combined with a special scent of woods, thousands of photographers join to see and capture this phenomenomenon that last only about on week in the best point of colors. This picture in particular reflects a nostalgic mood transmitted by the “momiji” trees before the rain comes and sweep the leaves away.

Technical Info: PENTAX K7 | 1/180 @ f 5.8 | focal lenght 300mm | ISO 200
Title of the photograph: Autumn Red
Photo of the Day Award Category: Color Photography
Photograph Location: Japan
Photographer:Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos (Osaka, Japan)
Jose Renteria born in Veracruz in december 17th 1973, raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, and currently living in Japan. He is a professional airline pilot and photography is his second professional priority, He has a professional photography Diploma and his is an everyday learner, aviation photography is his favorite topic followed by action, street, and landscape, except studio and multi flash photo. He founded in Japan that it is a very photogenic country (if not the most) He goes to every airport available to shoot aviation, travel to places to capture natute and colors, walk the streets in the night to capture the city lights and he always has a camera in my bag. He started photography in 2000 with a Canon rebel SLR but my real start was when I got his first DSLR, a PENTAX K10D, this camera changed his life. He is still a Pentax user and he will always be. Photography is not a business to him, it´s a way to play with time and space, people and things, it´s his escape from daily routine and an addiction with no harm. He always has goals and my next one is to start mastering portratit and strobist technique.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emisor73/?deleted=4180428141
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=815266596
Photo Gallery: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/joserenteria

Photo of the Day | April 24 | Tokyo at Night, by Bappa Goswami

L&C Team — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:13:27 +0000

This picture was taken from the observation deck of the Tokyo Tower, the communication and observations tower located at Shiba park, Minato. This structure is 332.5 meters tall and provides a breath taking view of Tokyo, which looks grand and glittering at night with all the sky scrappers and the lights on them.

Photographer: Krishna Kalyan Goswami, aka Bappa Goswami (Bangalore, India)
Krishna Kalyan Goswami is a Network Consulting Engineer and works at Cisco systems in Bangalore and more commonly known as Bappa among his friends and families. He is born and brought up in Kolkata, India but moved to Bangalore due to his job. His interest towards photography took a leap when he bought is his first DSLR camera, a NIKON D80. Currently he uses a Nikon D700 camera. He is a self-taught Photographer who considers himself to be married to his profession but treats Photography as an extra affair he cannot forget.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bappagoswamiphotography/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1071545199

Photo of the Day | September 11 | The Tokyo Bay & the traditional house boats by Michiko Matsumoto

L&C Team — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:00:29 +0000

This photo was taken on August 22, 2010 from The Tokyo Bay. It portrays the traditional house boats for night cuisine. Cuisine in Tokyo is internationally acclaimed & in Tokyo Bay one can experience that with famous Japanese cuisine.
Title of the photograph: The Tokyo Bay and the traditional house boats
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Japan
Photographer: Michiko Matsumoto (Tokyo, Japan)
Michiko Matsumoto was born in Shizuoka, Japan in 1950. In 1974　she got her B.A. in Japanese literature from Hosei University. She started photography in the early 1980s with several series of portraits of artists living in various countries and famous dancers of major dance companies. Later she published 10 books in the field of photography. Her works are in the collections of a number of museums internationally. Currently she is based in Tokyo.

Portfolio: http://www.matsumotomichiko.com

Photo of the Day | August 10 | Truck Driver by Benjamin Lee

L&C Team — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:00:01 +0000

In early January this new year I was lucky to travel to Niseko, Japan and their fresh power. I had never skied in Japan but I had only heard good things so I was pretty excited. On the way over we were delayed trying to land because there was too much snow on the runway – only a good thing when your on a sky holiday! The mountain had a huge variety of slopes and one of the days myself and my brother headed into their park. This is a photo of my brother pulling a “Truck Driver” over one of their jumps. I wish I had the flexibility to achieve this.

Technical Info: Canon 400D, EFS 17 – 85mm f/4 – 5.6; 17mm, f/8, 1/400, ISO 200, +1ev
Title of the photograph: Truck Driver
Photo of the Day Award Category: Adventure Photography
Photograph Location: Japan
Photographer: Benjamin Lee (Hong Kong)
Born in Tokyo, raised in Hong Kong and with the annual trip back to the UK in the summer Benjamin Lee was instilled with a desire to travel from an early age. Early adventures included locations both East and West and when, at 21 he received a DSLR he got cracking on recording his own exploits.
He has always considered himself as a visual learner with a good memory for places and events and he thoroughly enjoy traveling and experiencing new locations. Whenever he look through the lens he is always looking to capture the scene as he experiences it.
He is currently living in Hong Kong however he spends a fair amount of time working in different locations around Asia and Europe. I would classify himself as an observant photographer (if there’s such a category) because he is always trying to capture what he sees around him, whether it’s landscapes, urban landscapes or candid street shots.
Email: benleeimages@gmail.com
Portfolio: http://benlee.squarespace.com
Twitter:http://twitter.com/benleeimages