CITYSCAPE

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Reflection

The City, Like a Mirror — Each Gaze Holds a Different World

What we see in the city is never quite the same. One person notices the light on glass, another the crowd's flow, another the stillness between buildings. The image folds back on itself, like a reflection in a mirror—each angle, each moment, each way of seeing becomes a thread. It's this diversity of perspectives that weaves the urban space we live in.

IPHONE 17 PRO MAX LENS: TELEPHOTO FOCAL LENGTH IN 35MM FILM: 100 LOCATION: JAPAN TOKYO TAITO F NUMBER: 2.8 ISO: 25 EXPOSURE TIME: 1/638

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Light and Structure

A city is never still. Light shifts across glass and steel, transforming the same intersection from dawn to dusk. Shadows stretch and contract; reflections fold one surface into another. The cityscape is not a fixed scene—it's a living composition that rewrites itself with every passing hour.

To photograph the city is to negotiate with time. The geometry stays, but everything else—the quality of light, the density of the air, the rhythm of passersby—is fleeting. The frame holds still what the eye can only glimpse.

IPHONE 17 PRO MAX LENS: TELEPHOTO FOCAL LENGTH: 100 MM LOCATION: JAPAN TOKYO STATION F NUMBER: 2.8 ISO: 50 EXPOSURE TIME: 1/631
IPHONE 17 PRO MAX LENS: TELEPHOTO FOCAL LENGTH: 100 MM LOCATION: JAPAN KYOTO F NUMBER: 2.8 ISO: 25 EXPOSURE TIME: 1/638
IPHONE 16 PRO MAX LENS: TELEPHOTO FOCAL LENGTH: 120 MM LOCATION: TAIWAN TAIPEI F NUMBER: 2.8 ISO: 250 EXPOSURE TIME: 1/60
IPHONE 17 PRO MAX LENS: TELEPHOTO FOCAL LENGTH: 101 MM LOCATION: JAPAN TOKYO MINATO F NUMBER: 2.8 ISO: 50 EXPOSURE TIME: 1/294
IPHONE 17 PRO MAX LENS: TELEPHOTO FOCAL LENGTH: 100 MM LOCATION: JAPAN TOKYO TAKANAWA F NUMBER: 2.8 ISO: 40 EXPOSURE TIME: 1/146
IPHONE 15 PRO MAX LENS: TELEPHOTO FOCAL LENGTH: 120 MM LOCATION: JAPAN TOKYO GINZA F NUMBER: 2.8 ISO: 50 EXPOSURE TIME: 1/1969

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