JAPAN - TOKYO PART 1 — ROBERT KAHN PHOTO

Traveling again to Asia. It’s something that I couldn’t really fathom until it actually happened.

Only three days before my mother (Ann) passed away after suffering a stroke. I was steadfast that we were not going to cancel our trip, but honestly, until we got on the plane I thought there was always the possibility that it wasn’t going to happen.

For various reasons, I was single minded that we should not cancel. The three weeks leading up to my mom’s passing were, whether I realized it at the time or not, totally exhausting. Getting away was exactly what I needed and likely the same for Alice, Maximilian and Solomon. It was a tough time for all of us.

So here I am, back in Toronto for more than a week and I’ve been busy reviewing, culling and processing the images that mean something, okay and also look good ;-) This is usually a fairly simple task except I took over seven hundred images, probably about three times the amount that I’m used to taking. Maybe it’s pent up energy that needed an outlet, maybe it’s my frame of mind or maybe it was the outstanding light that seems to appear almost daily in Japan.

There are way too many images to pack into one blog post so I’ll attempt to break this up by the cities we visited and hope it conveys something about the wonderful time we had in Japan, the polite and thoughtful people and that incredible light.

Of course, it all starts in Tokyo.