Urban Postcards: Stephen Crawford

Do you believe in the law of attraction? I photographed a window display last month and often walk by at night wishing that I could go to the beach before summer ends. Well this morning my wish came true.
This beach party might be over, but focus on the positives. I can put my towel anywhere I like.

My connecting train cuts by the coastline.  On this Monday morning commute, the view from the window offers an adventure that is not for me or the man with the briefcase.

We glance quickly at the sail boats and nearby islands as if we are looking at a woman’s cleavage or a solar eclipse, wisely looking away before the feelings of pain and waves of regret come washing over us.

Window display of a beach scene in Japan. 

It just needs a couple of old car batteries, a television set,  PET bottles, cigarette butts, burnt out fireworks, old fishing nets, styrene floats, and crows feeding on the mountains of garbage left behind each day to either rot in the sun, or to be taken away by the high tide. Live View

Still Life: Man With Phone. Photographed in the Acros Building, Tenjin.
Summers here, it’s 34c and rising. Not a lot of people on the streets, most are in the underground shopping arcade, a network of tunnels with over 100 shops or killing time in air conditioned comfort.

Three kittens play in a steel storage yard. Their mother an American Shorthair,  was dumped near the waterfront and adopted by homeless people.

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Photo wall murals of tropical islands were big in the 80s, another popular theme is the bamboo forest. Brings the great outdoors inside without the snakes, spiders or creepy lost souls dropping over to borrow a cup of rice. 

I made the most of a rare sunny day with a quick bike ride around Shikanoshima, ate lunch by the ocean and looked for sea creatures in the rock pools at low tide. Don’t want to forget how to walk on uneven ground.

I photographed this well dressed man near the train station and imagined a Japanese version of the x files character, Cigarette Smoking Man.

He’s probably going to the tobacconist to buy more cigarettes, or just on his way to clean up a messy car interior like the one in Pulp Fiction.