Sep 12

Sep 12 2 Jikai

2 Jikai (ni-ji-kai)...the After Party. It is very common when you go out to eat in Japan in a group you can get a 'set' menu that is called 'Tabehodai Nomihodai". It is all you can eat and all you can drink and is typically limited to 2 hours so often people continue on in a smaller group to what is called 2 Jikai. Due to the cost of weddings in Japan many people hold a 2 Jikai where they invite their extended network of friends...but before we got to 2 Jikai here are a few shots from the wedding in digital...

Here is my wedding speech as I was getting ready...

Today's configuration: Leica M9-P, mostly with my Noctilux 50mm f/0.95

I love the simplicity of the meals they were serving...

The father walked around and poured everyone a beer to thank them for coming...

Cheers!

Icons of Japan - Canon and the Kimono...

I gave my wife a photo of our son that I had shot on film and she said to me "This is really nice, what did you do differently to it?". I always try to explain to people how film has a very different feeling to it and it is a look, feeling that I don't believe you to produce digitally. I am not saying that one is better than the other as I like and use both but depending on the look you want to achieve one may be better than the other. Have a look at the two images below. The one on the left was shot with my M9 Digital and the one on the right shot with my Leica M6J film camera.