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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 | By mhlyon | Photo Gallery
A long weekend in Kanazawa, Japan - March '13
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Sun, 7 Apr 2013 | By eleycharem | Views [313] | Scholarship Entry
It wasn’t the overwhelming flavor of herb in the cheese burger that I disliked nor the pungent tang of tea that threw me off. Maybe it’s my taste buds rebelling against the foreign morsels of food I kept shoving down my throat. I ignored the nagging feeling ... Read more >
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Sat, 6 Apr 2013 | By spanishflavour | Views [450] | Scholarship Entry
Shinjuku is one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo with a population of over 300 000 and the busiest train station in the world. Hotels, offices, and businesses jostle for space in the densely populated second 'centre' of the city, alongside Japan's ... Read more >
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Mon, 11 Mar 2013 | By travellingbuscemi | Views [1168] | Scholarship Entry
Quiet. Quiet enough to sleep. Slight, gentle rocking relaxes me even more. I think I’ll have a green tea before settling in for the three hour ride to Kobe. Visiting the vending machine is a different story. It’s almost as if the engineers found a way ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 | By sarubobo | Views [930] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
While waiting for Bus No. 5 from Kamihate-cho to Kawaramachi, I thought of the old woman who'd accosted me on the plane to Osaka. "Where are you going? Kyoto? Oh, why don't you stay at my house?” I'd looked at her, bewildered, and mumbled that my accommodation ... Read more >
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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 | By samsarasun | Views [1293]
I've just started my 3rd month working in Niseko, Japan. An ordinary day in Hirafu can as follow:
Wake up in the morning, look out the windon and the first thing you can see is at least 20 cm of fresh snow (the snow report predicted 0 cm). Look at ... Read more >
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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 | By aryan524 | Views [237]
While writing my thesis, I promised myself to go somewhere faraway when it's done. After months of being the first girl in but the last girl out of the campus doing my thesis, I packed my bags and head to the winter wonderland of Japan, Hokkaido.... Read more >
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By chipsnpeas | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I've made my living as a graphic designer for the past 15 years, but creatively, it's photography that pushes my buttons most, something I try my hand at at every opportunity, and never more so than when I'm travelling, an obsession that drives my wife ...
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By dereksk04 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Growing up American Indian and off the reservation I feel privileged to have more opportunities, but I am also missing part of my cultural identity. This has created a void sparking a curiosity for other cultures especially as I traveled to places like ...
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By escape | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By savvybader | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
As an American living in a small farming town in Japan, I am never short on inspiring subject matter. My purpose here is to teach English to children, but the reason I came is to explore. I intend to learn the language, observe the culture, meet new people, ...
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By asfalttango | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I'm an observer always looking for something. Mainly, as sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, how to: “escape from the commonplaces of existence”. Passionate and pretty much interested in everything. I'm a restless soul that has been running from one shooting ...
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By lillesauen | 
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I can't remember life without a camera. As a child I was given one-time-use cameras that had 24 pictures in them. I would cautiously look for my motives, terrified of wasting film. I was ecstatic, ready to capture what was important to me. When I was ...
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By follow_my_boots | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Photography is, for me, being an observer, watch, see and feel. That is why I have chosen to travel and explore the world, the nature, the culture, the people. I just want to memorize and capture an instant, sharing it with other, showing what they can't ...
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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By pompeyrob | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I actually found my passion for photography after I started backpacking, when I realised I must document this important part of my life and so set upon improving my photography.
This however was just the start and I realised that photography is a ...
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