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Norbert Woehnl 📷

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🇩🇪 born in Graz 🇦🇹, reside & work in Tokyo 🇯🇵. 📍Photographer (Film & Digital) 📍Coffee/Café Lover 📍Classic Movie Buff 📍Photo Book & Fountain Pen Collector 📍Apprentice Drummer 📍Alcohol Ink Art Novice 📍Data Architect NFT/AI 🚫 https://www.norbertwoehnl.com

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · Nov 18

Hi everyone! 👋
I am Norbert, a Data Architect and #photography enthusiast living in #Tokyo. I will post my photography, musings about learning Japanese, impressions from Tokyo cafés, and other random things. よろしくお願いします。
All the photos below were shot on film with a Mamiya 6 medium-format camera.

At Shibamata in Tokyo, Japan, pedestrians are watching the staff of a Yakitori stall going about their food preparations.

A close-up photo of the reclining Buddha statue at Nanzo-in Temple in Sasaguri, Fukuoka Prefecture.

During cherry blossom season, Hikone Castle in Shiga Prefecture is seen through a natural frame of pinkish-white branches of cherry blossoms.

During dusk along "Star Road" in Asagaya, Tokyo, patrons are sitting inside an Izakaya, and we can see a whole lane of pubs and eateries extending into the background of the image.

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 16h

Hi from #Japan! I’ve been in and around #Niigata yesterday and today. Here is today’s lunch of a delicious bowl of Soba noodles at a traditional place in Minamionuma. Second photo is a candid shot of another customer.

#photography #streetphotography #japanesefood #ArtYear @bskyphotos.bsky.social

A bowl of soba noodles with various toppings at Uonuma no Sato in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

A customer quietly enjoying his food at Uonuma no Sato in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 15h

Cheers Colin! We had actually considered this as a lunch alternative, but ultimately went with the soba as we had already had some koshihikari rice at the hotel breakfast buffet this morning. Maybe next time though! 🍙

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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Wishing my old friend Paul Simon a very happy birthday.
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1959 RCA Paramount recording session
Photo courtesy Sony Music Archives

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 2d

Just as a confirmation from a native German speaker, the translation is correct 😀

Great artwork, Nick, as always.

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 4d

Thanks very much, Nate! 🙌

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 5d

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Diane Keaton, sometime in the 70s, squatting down and holding an SLR

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 5d

Good evening from #Tokyo!

The #BlueSkyArtShow theme this weekend is #Glow, for which I found this specimen on my camera roll.

#Itabashi Ward, #Tokyo, #Japan.

#photography #streetphotography #nightphotography #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #東京カメラ部 @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Evening glow behind an urban street scene in the Itabashi Ward of Tokyo, Japan.

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 5d

My favorite academic book is “Data Model Patterns” (1996) - its cover isn’t a banger like some in this 🧵, but I like it. Dave Hay is a legend in the field, and the concepts in his book are still relevant today. I had sent an email thanking him for the book in 1997, and he most graciously replied.

Book Cover of “Data Model Patterns - Conventions of Thought” (1996) by David C. Hay. On the cover illustration, moonlight is falling into a room through the window, lighting up a rectangular spot that says “moon” (representing a model of the moon). A wolf (or is it a model of a wolf) seems to be howling at both the real moon and its model.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 6d

The Third Avenue elevated train in the New York rain, 1951, by Esther Bubley.

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Tokyo🎞️

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 6d

Yes, they're big on "kurobuta" dishes down there. 😋

Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 7d

Good morning from #Japan!

#Kagoshima on #Kyushu is often compared with its Italian sister city Naples due to a similarly mild climate, relatively hot-tempered inhabitants and the presence of Mt. Sakurajima, an active volcano.

#photography #UrbanGaze #ArtYear #EastCoastKin @bskyphotos.bsky.social

View through a narrow alley in Kagoshima, Japan.

On the ferry to Mt. Sakurajima in Kagoshima, Japan.

Wedding procession at Terukuni Shrine in Kagoshima, Japan.

Mt. Sakurajima volcano doing its thing, as seen from downtown Kagoshima, Japan.

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Lynn Zsidov-Steiner @lynnzsidovsteiner.bsky.social · 8d

A couple more little watercolor sketches from the weekend.

#wisconsinartist #enpleinair #naturalpigments #pleinairpainters #Bsky-Art #art #landscapes #nature

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 8d

Might as well have read your ALT text, sorry 🤨

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 8d

Have a good day, and take it slowly 🐢

Love the photo. Toji?

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 9d

Hello from #Tokyo - a nice, not-too-hot early autumn day today.

On a similar day in 2005, I took this photo looking towards Lake Agnes Teahouse across the lake in #Banff National Park, #Alberta, #Canada.

#RockinTuesday #photography #naturephotography #ArtYear #EastCoastKin @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Overlooking Lake Agnes in Banff National Park, Alberta, towards Lake Agnes Teahouse. This lake was one of my favorite places in the Canadian Rockies.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 11d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 10d

Yeah, don’t get me started about the “influenzas”. 🤐

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 10d

Thanks! Yanaka is pretty nice, too, although more and more impacted by incessant crowds of tourists.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 10d

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 11d

Good evening from #Japan!

I needed to see some #Green today, so I went to #Kunitachi in western #Tokyo. Hitotsubashi University campus and some of the older buildings remind me of Stanford Univ. in California.

#photography #streetphotography #stunday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Photo of an old building on the western campus of Hitotsubashi University in Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan.

Dramatic clouds over the western campus of Hitotsubashi University in Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan.

Pedestrian sidewalk outside the western campus of Hitotsubashi University in Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan.

People are enjoying a nice day on the western campus of Hitotsubashi University in Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan.

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 12d

Feeling exactly the same way. Take care of yourself, mate, your mental health and happiness comes first ✨

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Michael Pointer www.mepfa.me @m7pointer.bsky.social · 14d

West Kansas Lean
#fineartphotography #blackandwhite #Kansas #rural

Black and white image of an old barn leaning to the left amidst a field of stubble.

A black and white image of cylindrical silos on top of a square concrete base with a small hopper leaning in front.

Black and white image of the inside of an abandoned store. A mattress is in the foreground with two old televisions at the end both with bullet holes through their screens.

Two longhorns standing by a singular tree in a corner of their pasture.

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