何もなくてもとりあえず歩く / Just taking a walk without any particular purpose

ヨドバシカメラで買いたいものがあった。用事を済ませた後、少しだけ新宿駅の西側を歩いた。別に何かを撮りたかったわけではない。でも、カメラを出せばシャッターを切る。歩いてシャッターを切る。軽いエクササイズのようだ。

I went to the Yodobashi Camera store in Shinjuku to buy a camera filter. After that,
I walked around in the west side of the Shinjuku station without any particular purpose. There's nothing I wanted to capture, but there still were things to capture. I just walk and click. It's like a fitness training.

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自転車 / Bikes

レンタル自転車。写真は旧万世橋駅の横だけれど、お台場にもこんなレンタル自転車があって、撮影のときに乗りたいと思うことがある。

お台場は端から端まで機材を持って歩くのが面倒なので、レンタル自転車にまたがって移動できたらとても楽ができそうだ。そんなことを思い出した。

場所を万世橋に戻して、青と赤。そのコントラストが気に入った。

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These were rental bikes. Once you register, you can start renting one. I took these photos in the Manseibashi area near Akihabara, but these bikes reminded me ones in Odaiba. I often want to rent one when I go there to take landscape photos.

Walking from one end to the other along the beach in Odaiba is tiring, so it must be easier to ride a bike around the area.

Getting back to talking about Manseibashi, the blue and the red. I liked the contrast.

新国立競技場と東京体育館 / The New National Stadium and the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

1年半前に見たときはまだ更地だった。先日、首都高４号線を走っていて、巨大なスタジアムが立ち上がっているのを見た。この週末に近くを歩く機会があったから、その容姿をゆっくり眺めてきた。

I saw this place two years ago, it was empty. The old stadium had been torn down and nothing was there yet. When I drove on the Metropolitan Expressway's Route 4 the other day, I saw the new huge stadium was being constructed. And this weekend, I took a walk in the area, so I closely looked at the mega construction.

ちょうど2年前の様子。
This is how this place looked two years ago.

でかい。
It was really big.

ついでに横の敷地にある東京体育館も撮ってみた。考えてみたら今まで通り過ぎるばかりで、一度もよく見たことがなかった。調べてみたら、東京体育館は1990年に全面改築オープンとある。その前の姿も見ているはずだけれども、記憶にないな。

I spent some time to take photos of the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, which is located just across from the street. I often looked at this building but didn't bother to take time to look at it. It was one of the facilities used for the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and was reconstructed in 1990. I must have seen the previous building but I don't remember it.

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金曜日、宵の新宿 / A Friday evening in Shinjuku

金曜日の新宿。友人たちと飲んだ。皆、カメラ好きの仲間だが、飲んだだけ。僕は早めに新宿に着いたから辺りを歩いて少しだけシャッターを切った。

It was a Friday evening in Shinjuku. I went out drinking with my friends. All of us loved photography, but we just drank and ate. I had arrived in Shinjuku a bit early so walked around and clicked the shutter.

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人の痕跡が交わす会話 / Conversations of the traces people have left in town

東京の街はどこでもそうなのだが、多くの人の記憶がそこかしこに刷り込まれている。実際の生活では交わることがなかった人と人の、東京今昔物語。

People leave their traces here and there. They might not have been interact with one another in their real lives, but their traces often do. I'm curious to know what kind of conversation are those traces enjoying.

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