Zōkyō

Pōkyō – A photographic collaboration between Portland-based photographer Jim Clinefelter and yours truly…

Complete series at brianscottpeterson.com.

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I’m auctioning this print to help the people of Japan following the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. The photo is located at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zebrio/5312348105/

I would like you to start the bidding at $100

Size and type of print: Whatever you want!

Please leave a comment with your offer here or on the flickr photos.

The highest bidder at the time the auction ends will donate (or I will donate in their name after paypal transaction has been completed) that amount direct to a trusted charity helping with the relief effort in Japan, such as:

British Red Cross:

Donate

Japanese Red Cross:

Donate

Save the Children:

Donate

World Vision:

Donate

Oxfam:

Donate

YOU CHOOSE!

WANT TO BID – BUT YOU DON’T HAVE A FLICKR ACCOUNT?
Please just email me with a bid and I will place the bid in the comments on your behalf: brian@brianscottpeterson.com

The bidding will end on 31st of March, 2011 at midnight + JST. At this time, the person who wrote/commented or emailed the highest amount will have to give this amount to a legitimate charity involved in the effort for aid for the people of Japan. On proof of donation (please take a screen grab of your donation confirmation page!), I will arrange for the print to made and shipped to you. Or you can arrange a paypal payment to me and I will make sure it goes to a charity of your or my choice in your name.

I will pay for the print to be produced and pay for shipping, so all of your donation goes straight to the cause

For more information on this:
CPA – CHARITY PRINT AUCTIONS – JAPAN
www.flickr.com/groups/charityprintauctions/

When Tokyo Photographer, John Sypal isn’t literally eating, sleeping, and breathing photography, he is out serendipitously stumbling upon an exquisite little ism in Tokyo that piques as much curiosity as does a two-headed prairie dog. Its called “Tokyo Camera Style,” the notion that cameras are as much as personalized style accessories as they are “tools with which [their wearers] can express their personal taste and private sensibilities”…[and that]…”the relationship one has with their cameras affects their approach to making a picture.”

I was always eh, kinda like consider myself kind of a pioneer of the pentaprism, a camerateur if you will. I’ve wined, dined, sipped and shopped in some of the most demonstrably beamer epitomable camera shops in the Tokyo metropolitan region. Yeah, I’ve bought strange looking Fujipets at Alta. I’ve had dangerous pinholes from the the Camera Box. Well what you get is a gaffer-taped Holga in a UFO catcher loaded with a provocative roll of expired Velvia, and uh, rust. Processed with Campbell’s tomato soup. See I have kinda of a uh…well I ordered my Leica Titan, Christ it was so tough it left the box and it walked down to the end of the counter, camera gal wearing those rhinestone glasses with the little pearl thing clipped on the sweater. My Leica come down, tried to beat the shit out of my digital camera battery. Battery just wasn’t strong enough to defend itself…

Anyway… I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love a good gadget. I managed to acquire a whole used car lot of of ‘em and drive a different one (or three) everyday depending on how I feel. And inasmuch, I’ve managed to elbow my way on to John’s site a couple of times. Here, here, here, and a few other places. Go check out Tokyo Camera Style to see what the rest of Tokyo is sporting. I guarantee you it aint your mama’s rainbow banana pudding…

Taken with “the world’s most expensive toy camera” ™.

Taken with this crazy camera.