Japan Archives - Alicia Fox Photography, Crescent Head NSW Photographer

Greenroom Festival 2009 – Music Art Film

June 01, 2009 aliciafox Japan, surfing tags: donavon frankenrieter, festival, greenroom, Japan, musician, photography, Portraits, surf, surf music, surfer 0 comments

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Pic: Donavon Frankenreiter I had a brilliant weekend at the Greenroom Festival in Yokohama. It’s a music festival, based around surf culture. There was a whole lot of amazing artwork including live mural paintings from the Gravity Free crew. These guys are prolific, and James and I will be hooking up with them again to help get their artwork out to the world. The music was a lot of fun, and the floorboards on the huge wooden theatre were literally bouncing with thousands of dancers. Highlights for me were Dachambo, Natty, Rickie-G, Matt Grundy and Donavon Frankenreiter. I got to meet up with Matt and Donavon after 5 years, when I last saw them on their Australian Tour in 2004. It was a reminder that this is a crazy, small world – and I love it. Pic: Me sporting a new headpiece from Tokyo Designers Chaco, with some of my new friends, backstage at the Greenroom Read More

What the kids are up to in Tokyo

May 25, 2009 aliciafox Fashion, Japan, Travel Photography tags: anime, cosplay, costumes, Fashion, fashion photographer, fashion photography, harajuku, Japan, japanese, photography, Portraits, travel, Travel Photography 0 comments

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Yesterday I had an amazing day in Tokyo, meeting a whole lot of interesting young people. They have a lot to say to the world, and they choose to do say it through the way they dress. Many of the teenagers here spend six days a week at school, after school club sports and study classes. Sunday is their only day off and they choose to express their individuality through extreme dress. A lot of the costumes are based on anime characters. Animation is unbelievably popular in Japan, amongst children, teenagers and adults. Kids in Harajuku, Tokyo ‘become’ their characters once a week, and hang around other people doing the same – From cute dolls with pink hair, to gothic-like characters covered in piercings. Anything goes! -Alicia Read More

I love where I live

May 17, 2009 aliciafox Japan, Photography Tips, Travel Photography tags: australian photographer, beach, black sand, boat, chiba, chopsticks, ecology, environment, farming, fishing, holiday, ichinomya, Japan, journalist, management, name, ocean, Photo Tips, photography, photos, planting, rice; field, rubish, sea, seedlings, silhouette, silhouettes, surf, surfing, sustainability, taito, tetrapod, travel photogarpher, Travel Photography, tutorial, ume, waste 0 comments

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Here are some photos of around where I live, in Ichinomya in Chiba, Japan… I got up at 4:30am to get some sunrise shots on the beach. It was Sunday, and even at sunrise the beach is crowded with surfers – many from Tokyo on their weekend break – quite possibly their one day off each week. Technical: I exposed for the background of this image to silhouette the figures against the back light. By setting the white balance to flash, I enhanced the colour temperature to an even warmer tone than the true early morning light. Black, volcanic sand with tetrapods protecting the land from typhoon swells and tsunamis. People leave their surfboards, bikes and shoes lying around, because nobody steals things in Japan. I love the morning sunlight on this boat. Technical: The hazy atmosphere diffused the sun to soften the warm early-morning sunlight. I shot at a fairly wide-angle to distort the shape of the boat and enhance the surreal feeling of the image. A few of our neighbours, with rice paddies in the foreground. Japanese people tend to have different taste in housing colours, to what I’m used to back in Australia. Pink is a bit […] Read More