I photographed my best friend Chiemi towards the end of my stay in Tokyo. The shoot was at another Inari shrine in Asakusa. This visit to Tokyo was the first where I'd shot digital color rather than black & white film, and it certainly worked well for my shoot with Chiemi. If I'd shot black & white, I wouldn't have been able to capture the bright colors of her outfit. Chiemi designed the modifications to the dress herself and did a fabulous job coordinating the colors into a true impressionist palette.
After the shoot, Chiemi and I had lunch at the same Asakusa restaurant where I'd eaten with Lira at the beginning of my stay. It was great to have a quiet lunch and talk over old times with such a good friend. As we were talking, we discovered that Chiemi and Lira were both listed with the same model agency, SOS Models, in Tokyo. Small world.


