Happy New Year 2023 from Tokyo in Pics. I hope you didn’t have too much to drink on New Year’s Eve. If you read my last article, you know I had a sedate day. I did my yearly walk. This time it was from Takanawa Gateway Station to Ginza. But I was up early to take these photos.
Are you wondering about the photos in this article? I took them from my apartment’s rooftop on January 1, 2023. The building shots look towards the east. Shinjuku, Tokyo Tower, Azabudai Hills, and Tokyo Skytree are there.
The mountain is Fuji, of course. I have an unimpeded view of it. If you look at it with the naked eye, it’s pretty small as it is nearly 100 kilometers away. But with my Fujifilm 100-400 mm, it’s big in photos!
Fuji is revered in Japan. To see it on New Year’s Day is considered auspicious. If it is a backdrop to the sunrise, that is considered doubly lucky. I’ll settle for the view I got!
2022 didn’t go according to plan, but life is like that. The biggest thing was deleting my Squarespace site and migrating to WordPress. That happened in February. Even though that was ten months ago, not everything went smoothly.
Unfortunately, I misplaced many photographs. So I can’t republish the articles they belong to until I find them. Such is life, but I learned a valuable lesson. Websites mightn’t last forever, so the correct archiving of information to keep it safe is required if it is needed again in the future. That would have to be my most valuable lesson from 2022. It was a bitter one!
I’ll remember that lesson for a long time, but I am determined to push on. The new website is already progressing and getting bigger each month, with a goal of 500 articles by the end of the year.
Seeing the clear, beautiful view this morning felt like a sign that this new year has started on a hopeful note. It’s a great feeling, especially when I remember some bitterly cold New Year’s days from the past.
Anyway, I hope your 2022 was a good one. And I wish you a great 2023.
Happy New Year!
Rohan Gillett
Rohan has photographed Tokyo since 2011. He shoots it with his Canon EOS R5. There are no plans to stop.
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