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I find Japanese writing to be visually one of the most beautiful languages in the world and while I don't have a clue how to read Japanese I do appreciate how it looks.  When walking around Suzuka on our last evening before heading to Tokyo I started to see signs all around the city in different forms, from manhole covers to restaurant menus to neon signs, so I decided to take pictures of some of the most visually interesting ones for this blog. Images taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 and Fujinon 23mm f2 lens ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

A quick walk to Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly netted some more images for the MacLean Photographic London gallery. First stop was Trafalgar Square where I stopped to get some shots of the tourists enjoying one of London's most famous landmarks.  However it was the fountains and the statues that drew my photographic eye and with the Fuji X100 resting on the wall of the pool I took this long exposure shot. Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 0.7s  @ f16 - ISO200 Next stop was Piccadilly Circus and the colourful lights of the bill boards and the hoards of tourists surround the statue of Eros.  Again looking for something a bit different my eye was drawn to the London Underground signs that were brightly lit as the evening started to draw in.  I was going to do this shot totally in black and white but, like the image I took near St Paul's Cathedral last week, the red, white and blue colours deserved to be highlighted, so I left them in and just turned the rest of t...