X-VARIO @ 31mm.   1/15th sec F/4.1 @ ISO 400.  JR Yamanote Line, Tokyo. Playing with a test camera in a city like Tokyo is a lot of fun...

X-VARIO @ 28mm zone focus. 1/500th sec F/7.1 @ ISO 1600. I know the X-VARIO was never designed to be an action camera...and that's ...

Ricoh GR-D IV zone focus. 1/710th sec F/2.2 @ ISO 160. Cropped image It's not easy shooting moving action with a small point and sho...

Ricoh GR-D IV. 1/270th sec F/1.9 @ ISO 125. Scale focus. Because the Ricoh GR-D IV is a very quick street shooter, I grab for it more t...

Leica X-Vario at 50mm equiv. 1/1250th sec F/5.6 @ ISO 400. Shot RAW, edited in CS5/Photoscape and cropped I find many people use their ...

When I first saw John taking a break from his job, he was exactly as you see him in the above picture. I told him not to move. I liked t...

I was out testing both the Ricoh GR and GR-D IV when I saw a young hipster leaning up against a pole next to a hip yellow fixie. Cool shot...

Meet George. He's from Leeds, England so he has a super cool accent...well, it is to us plain English speakers.  When I asked him if ...

I'm testing out a few cameras at this time, including a Ricoh GR Digital iv and a Minolta CLE. I will be getting my hands on the new R...

I was walking along Hastings Street in Vancouver looking to test the 'Partial Color' feature on the Fuji XF1. It's not as wel...

When I saw this I was literally laughing while I took the picture...then I was scratching my head...what situation would bring about this...

The best bike pics are when they're  locked-up , and I came across a pretty rad one chained up on Dunsmuir and Burrard while testing ...

A few posts back I spoke with Aaron at Whole Foods who was wearing a Charlie Noble Global Delivery hoodie. I thought it was a real compan...

While grocery shopping, this employee walked past me wearing his black Whole Foods apron and matching Charlie Noble Global Delivery hood...

These previously posted pictures from Hong Kong highlight the fact that many ride against traffic instead of with the traffic. I was...

As I walked past Beat Street Records in Vancouver, I noticed a quote, or a short poem, or something: All that was, will always have been,...

This is a very common sight where ever children are congregated: a fleet of Japanese momma-bikes (aka "Mamachari"). In N.America...

Like my previous post concerning the stylish bike texting guy , I notice many distracted bike riders in Japan. I'm surprised there a...

In Japan, I saw lots of oddly branded bicycles, mostly American brands such as Hummer, or this Coca-Cola bike. Obviously Coke didn't b...

As mentioned on previous posts, bike doubling is very common in Japan, although technically illegal. Many don't own cars, and so bikes...