Dolifuto!

One of Emis old colleage friends is getting married soon. Emi and her friends want to make a memory book/poster/thing so wanted to get some pictures of their colleage. Therefore on Saturday 11th October Emi and I went to her old colleage and met up with one of her friends to take some pictures. It was interesting wandering around and seeing where Emi had been when she was younger - life before Stuart! Afterwards we went to a resturant for a bite to eat and then headed back home so I could catch the end of F1 qualifying!

Sunday I met up with Hirakawa-san and Kohei-san. I knew them both from my previous stay in Japan and both are into drifting. We met up at a service station on the Tomei expressway and with 6 or 8 other cars headed off to Nikko circuit. This is a drifting and racing track in Tochigi prefecture about 25km from Nikko itself. I got out the 200m lense and spent a lot of the day tacking pictures from various locations, experiementing with the camera setting and trying to improve my technique. The things I have learn are A) I can't hold a camera steady when panning and B) most of the time the shutter speed setting was wrong, I kept it open too long. Anyway I hope you enjoy a small selection of my photos.