notes from the road

taking flight, hokkaido, japan the coastline here is wild and spectacular and we’ve had a great day exploring on the way to our next hotel. one of the places we stopped had these huge windmills and, initially, i wasn’t really taken with them. but after wandering around for a bit and stopping to stare at […]

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polaroid photograph of a street in shinjuku, tokyo, japan. copyright leonie wise. all rights reserved

where would you go?

along with 17 other new zealand travel bloggers, i was invited to contribute my top picks for travel for 2015 – 1 local, 1 international. international was easy: tokyo.  All the big city excitement of London, Paris or New York with a total cultural difference thrown in for good measure. It’s an extremely safe city […]

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notes from the road

biei, hokkaido there is something about this place that moves me and i’m struggling to define it in any way, even to myself i have made a LOT of crap photographs already + a handful that don’t make me want to give up just yet trying to find my rhythm and my voice, i feel like […]

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notes from the road

+++ up early to grab a quick breakfast then head north to hokkaido. we are out exploring for all of the daylight hours and i play around with some movement using my phone & a larger digital camera. my skin is dry and i feel a bit like a lizard in need of some serious […]

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notes from the road

1 // tokyo sunrise from the 33rd floor of the hotel. japanese breakfast. need more coffee 2 // shopping in ginza earlier today this evening, the photography gang will have our first meal together, staying in a hotel at haneda airport; we’ll be up early to have breakfast and get on a flight to hokkaido – spending 12 […]

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