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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 · 1m

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 · 16h

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 · 1d

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

Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

Might as well have read your ALT text, sorry 🤨

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 3d

Have a good day, and take it slowly 🐢

Love the photo. Toji?

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 5d

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

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 5d

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 · 5d

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 9d

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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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 7d

Cheers Ben! 🙌

Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 7d

Autumn in Japan is quite the mood 🍁

Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 7d

Happy weekend from #Tokyo! Just came back from kickboxing training, and off to some drumming practice after lunch.

For the #Relax theme of #BlueSkyArtShow: deck chairs facing the Athabasca River in #Jasper National Park, Alberta, #Canada.

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

Deck Chairs facing the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.

Taken on the premises of Becker’s Chalets, a few kilometers south of Jasper Townsite.

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Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 7d

Share a favorite cover as a timeline cleanse.

youtu.be/eAti8JNmJi8?...

Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 8d

Share a favorite cover as a timeline cleanse.
(last one for now, from my favorite Japanese singer)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Zn...

Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 8d

Share a favorite cover as a timeline cleanse.
(sorry, I could do this all day)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNE2...

Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 8d

Share a favorite cover as a timeline cleanse.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=freg...

Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 8d

Thanks! It's one of the lesser-known (and a bit off-the-beaten-track) spots in Japan to enjoy the autumn foliage.

Norbert Woehnl 📷 @norbertwoehnl.com · 8d

Happy Friday from #Japan!

The scorching heat is over for this year and I'm getting in the mood for a much-needed #autumn - so hear are some photos from Ukan Valley, a fabulous location in #Okayama Prefecture.

#photography #naturephotography #scape #ArtYear #EastCoastKiin @bskyphotos.bsky.social

Colorful autumn foliage at Ukan Gorge, a tributary of the Asahikawa River in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

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