Notes from the Road : travel blog

Notes from the Road throws everything you know about travel writing out the door - Travel writer and photographer Erik Gauger. Notes from the Road is a project in experimental travel writing - it is about subjective travel; the kind of real world of random things and real people. Notes from the Road looks at a handful of connected regions from the perspective of the outsider looking in. By road, by kayak, by seaplane and most of all on foot, I try to tackle the themes of city and country in the modern world. Travel writing always gets a bad rap, because of The azure sea was undulating and the hotel was fabulous. But travel writing can be funny, powerful and personal. Every non-fiction writer has that capacity to exaggerate; his experiences happen far away from the second opinion. After all, it makes the author look the hero. But travel writing implies honesty and research. And that s why Notes from the Road is about the unvarnished, messy truth of travel, told by a regular guy. Notes from the Road stories are sketched on the road, with only one or two edits afterwords. I travel on tight budgets, often to ordinary places. I started this project in December 1999 to humor and entertain my friends. Since I have moved about from place to place in whole life, I needed a way to keep in touch. I grew up with a few unusual and useless hobbies - underwater photography, plant and animal identification, and an interest in history, archaeology and maps. This site is fueled by those...

http://www.notesfromtheroad.com

Panorama TOKYO

Cityscapes of Tokyo shot with the panoramic camera. I like to take pictures of landscapes or cityscapes in Tokyo. That is the scenery of green, water, skyline and sunset. I ve been crazy about taking panoramas since I got a German panoramic camera NOBLEX 135 in 1995. It is useful to shoot the wide-angle area in the cityscapes. This camera is so neat for me. The contents of Panorama TOKYO are planned to release a panoramic view of Tokyo with the best-angle composition we have ever seen. I scan the latest panoramic image shot with the NOBLEX 135 and put on my page. Panoramic photography is really hard for me, but exciting. I ve been learning how to handle the peculiar character of the panoramic camera for taking better panoramas. I guess the best way of learning is to shoot many scenes. They say there is no green in Tokyo, cramped with the buildings and crowded with too many people. But you notice it is rather rich in green, if you visit this attractive city in Japan. Say, in the park, in the precincts of a temple, on the riverside... Stepping into the green area, you can get away from street noises and feel so fresh air. There is another scenery of Tokyo you have never known. Here you can enjoy looking at many pictures of Tokyo Cityscapes, shot with the panoramic camera NOBLEX 135 1 using the unique mechanism of rotating lens. Each picture of these panoramas on Panorama TOKYO pages has 130 degrees of the horizontal picture angle. They will be useful to you showing the...

http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~kuri/panorama/tokyo.html