Nankai train at Tezukayama station A few years ago, if you'd told me I'd have such a burning passion for photography, I'd have scoffed. It was always something I viewed as too 'easy' - just click a button and you're done! That's not any special, that's not art! But I've come to realize that to photograph is to capture a fleeting moment in time, to preserve its feeling in a mix of color and shape, to make the intangible tangible. Our memory fades, and warps and twists the situations we've experienced, but a photograph preserves a precise instant forever. Every moment we live is instantly transient. Nothing in life can ever happen 'twice', not in the same way. A day can be repeated in the same meticulous way a hundred times over, and yet it will never ever be the same. The weather above, the interactions we have, our emotions - us . As a person, you are not the same as you were 5 minutes before. A photograph clips an instant, a 1/200th of...