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Jingna Zhang, a young Singapore-based photographer and friend, has just released her first photo book “Something Beautiful”. The 20-year-old has a talent for expressing the beauty of the feminine form and has quickly gained a large following across the internet.

If you’re in Singapore from Sept. 12-23, definitely check out her exhibition!
http://beautiful.zemotion.net

Images from the book and orders are being taken directly from her:
http://zemotion.blogspot.com/2008/08/something-beautiful-book-orders.html

A few images:

Unfortunately, my camera ran out of batteries before I could finish, so I’ll have to do the last leg tomorrow. Before the batteries died though, I made it nearly to Tamachi from Uguisudani station. 23287 steps, 594 calories, 11.64 km. Stations passed along the way: Ueno, Okachimachi, Akihabara, Kanda, Tokyo, Yurakucho, Shimbashi, Hamamatsu-cho. I took so many photos today that I stopped and picked up another compact flash card! Day 3/4 video tomorrow, and entire Yamanote Line Walking video by next week.

残念ながら、終了できる前にカメラが電池切れになったので、最後の部分は明日にしないといけないです。電子切れになる前に鶯谷駅からほとんど田町駅まで辿り着いた。23287歩、594カロリー、11.64キロ。取りすぎた駅：上野、御徒町、秋葉原、神田、東京、有楽町、新橋、浜松町。今日、あまりにも写真を撮って結局途中で新しいコンパクトフラッシュのメモリーカードを買っちゃった。3/4日目の動画は明日に載せて、来週まですべての山手線散歩プロジェクトの動画を載せます。

20075歩
10.53 km
566 calories

Comments later. Let me just say, I kept getting lost!
感想はあとで書きます。ひとつだけ言いたい。結構道迷っちゃった！

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今日、自分のプロジェクト「山手線の散歩」を始めた。１日目は山手線目黒駅から池袋駅まで写真を撮りながら歩いてきた。撮った写真を動画にして下のYouTubeに載せた。6分間ちょっとかかるので、好きなところにスキップしていいよ。

万歩計には24468歩、596ギャラリー、12.23キロが記録された。
撮った写真は1442枚（徒歩の写真）以上。
かかった時間は５時間。

目黒～新宿は部分的に歩いたことがあるが、一気で歩くのが初めてだった。新宿～池袋の間ほとんど知らなくて何があるかすごく楽しみにしていた。しかし、感想は他の時書くね。このプロジェクトの元は毎年１日で全部歩く知り合いだった。彼は友達と一緒に東京駅から山手線沿いで都心をぐるっと回って約１２時間後また東京駅に着く。さすがにゆっくりしながらできないことです。今日目黒～池袋は２９駅内のたった９駅なのに５時間もかかった。３日間のプロジェクトにしては最初は結構いいペースだと思う。

さてこのビデオを見て、何が面白いと思うでしょう？

Today, I started my little project: “Yamanote Line Walking”. Day 1 took me from Meguro Station to Ikebukuro Station taking photos along the way, and turning those photos into a YouTube video. The video is a little over 6 minutes long, so if you get tired with one area skip to another.

My pedometer recorded 24468 steps burning 596 calories through the 12.23 kilometers walked.
I took 1442 walking photos and more.
This leg of the loop took 5 hours to complete.

I have walked from Meguro to Shinjuku before in parts, but never all at once. From Shinjuku to Ikebukuro, it was for the most part new to me, so I was quite interested what I would find. Those thoughts are for later though. The origin of this project was an acquaintance of mine who does this walk every year but all at once. With his friends, he walks from Tokyo Station right around central Tokyo following the Yamanote Line and ends back at Tokyo Station in some 12 hours. I couldn’t possible do that at my lethargic pace and taking photos too. Today, of the 29 stations on the line, I completed 9 in 5 hours. Not a bad pace for this 3 day project.

Take a look at the video and tell me what you think!