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A collection of photos of our trip to Tokyo, Japan three weeks ago. See the whole set on flickr.

Here are some great HDR photos from Japan. High Dynamic Range imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. I find this technique quite amazing as good HDR photos almost look like a painting.

PingMag — the Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” — talked to Joe Nishizawa who took pictures of Japan’s giant underground installations1: A enormous underground tunnel that runs through 40metres under the Hibiya Junction Tokyo or an underground dome that lies 500metres below deep in the mountains of Gunma…? In Japan unimaginably large spaces […]

On this Japanese site you find pictures of a hugh sewer.underground infrastructure to prevent floods in Saitama. Sadly I can’t read Japanese but I guess it’s in one of the largest cities in Japan. According to Wikipedia: The G-Cans project (首都圏外郭放水路 Shutoken Gaikaku Housui Ro or Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel) is an underground […]