Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Wordless Wednesday – Cosplay on the Street

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Location: Takeshita Dori, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
Date taken: August 10th, 2008
Camera equipment: Nikon D300 + Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D



31 comments:

  1. Some teens in Sg are also dressed like that. Its amazing :)

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  2. Japanese fashion never fails to fascinate and amuse me!

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  3. I love it! You have a great eye!

    Happy WW!

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  4. Is this an event? What's going on? I love that second-to-last photo with the eye makeup.

    Happy WW!
    -smarmoofus

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  5. CK, you missed your calling. You should be a professional fashion photographer!

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  6. These photos are remarkable. Do you enjoy shooting with the D300?

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  7. That is SOME kind of fashion! GREAT shots!!!

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  8. You have a lot of cosplayer pics! That's one of my favorite parts in all of our company events (I'm in the gaming industry).

    Happy WW!

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  9. so that's fashion and not a costume party?

    heh heh....

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  10. I always love your cosplay shots. But your waterfalls are magnificent!

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  11. nice shots! and so stylish

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  12. fashion or costumes? that's a lot of style for teenagers!

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  13. I could look at pretty girls forever unless one would bite me (kick also, the bite is more romantic).
    My vote is for the second picture, the girl on the left who is not intending cosplay.

    Happy WW, thank you for your visit and nice comment. Yes, MacD's is all over the commercial world.
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  14. How colorful...how lively!

    Happy WW!

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  15. Those are some colorful photos ! Can't decide if they're "regular" clothing or "regular" costumes.
    We are going to NYC just after Thanksgiving and you just gave me the idea to cross the streets with my camera. There are some "colorful costumes" there as well.

    Have a great WW.

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  16. I love coming to you site because I always see such neat things that i wouldn't see in my own country!

    Thanks for sharing.

    Stop by and check mine out at:

    http://beingchronicallyillisapill.blogspot.com/2008/11/wordless-wednesday-falls-last-hurrah.html

    Happy WW!

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  17. Interesting pictures.

    And "cosplay" is...?

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  18. Wow - those are some fascinating photos. I love the colors and variety of style. The eye makeup was especially cool. :D

    Thanks for dropping by.

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  19. Happy WW! Very creative clothing styles ... and the remarkable thing is that it appears that these folks are heading to work or school like a normal day...

    Thank you for visiting my blog earlier today. I invite your blog readers to see 5 Obama Hair Don'ts!

    peace, Villager

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  20. I have no idea what "cosplay" is, but judging form a couple of these shots it seems a bit like Halloween.

    Exceptional work as always CK!

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  21. thx for sharing!!!




    regards,
    Animefa

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  22. you always have such interesting people to photograph!

    Love them all!

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  23. What a great pic of u.do they know that u take their pic? anyway, thx for visiting my
    North Sulawesi
    blog.have a great day!!

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  24. Oh wow. Your post brought back such sweet memories from Harajuku. I love the Cosplay goin on there on the weekends. So cool. Your pics are fantastic, as usual! :)

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  25. Hi all WW participants and friends, thanks for visiting and your kind words.

    'Cosplay' is combined from the two words 'costume' and 'play'. It is a sub-culture emerged from anime (animation), manga (comics) and video games where people wear costumes to emulate the characters in these media.

    See you all in the next WW post. :)

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