As I went through the rest of the images from Osaka, there were more than what I’m going to put in this blog post, but after sitting on these images for around a month, clearer eyes and that bit of removal from the romance of being in Japan allowed me to be a bit more selective in my final picks. With work being so busy, I’ve had this push to get work out the door and leaned on the idea that finished is better than perfect. Doubly so with personal work and, honestly, it really doesn’t matter that much anyways seeing as there are no client expectations or really anything else that matters other than what I feel should be representative of my work. That being said, giving it some time and “letting it cook” allowed me to have a bit more clarity and honesty when looking at the images. The emotional ties to the images are lessened and the moment is now further in my memory. Thankfully, I take pictures for a living so I at least have photographic evidence of the things I’ve done that I most surely will forget. Such is life with getting older. Brain fog is a thing I suppose. Anyways, here is the last chapter in the Osaka series and those images of Super Mario World and Universal Studios I mentioned in Part 1, well here they are. Scroll down to the end for those. And if you didn’t see Part 2, you can click here and have a gander at those, too.

With flights being so affordable to Japan lately, I may take another sneaky trip later this year for a trip solely focused on taking photos. Stay tuned for that.