hayama-rama

Bruce Osborn, photographer and friend, sent along this amazing series of photos, taken around his place during and after Typhoon Melor. Luckily his own place is safe, but it looks like the rest of Hayama suffered. We were in Tokyo, and though my Super Cub bike ride to work was the closest thing to a theme park ride I've ever experienced without paying for it, you never really get the sense of the power of nature when you're in the city unless a building falls on you or, like New Orleans, the water basically flushes the entire population out of the city.

I love this progression of the power of the sea, followed by scenes of destruction, and then--like always--the beauty of the sky after a typhoon. Those moments have to be the highlight of every year. The air is so transparent and objects are so perfectly visible that it looks like everything is done in computer graphics.

Enough said. Thanks, Bruce.