Breaking out of the habit of daily blogging is certainly easier than getting back into it again. So, now that I'm back in Tokyo, I'll start off slowly with a small selection of Tokyo photo-based blogs I've recently come across.

Pixmaniac is a redesign of an earlier site by a Japanese Contax enthusiast and features a lovely new collection of black and white shots recently taken on a hot day in Asakusa.

My Private Tokyo is a new photoblog of an Australian photographer residing in Tokyo with a passion for Lomos. I particularly like his latest entry of nightlife in Shibuya (unfortunately there are no permalinks for individual posts).

asbcreative is Andrew Beveridge's newly launched photoblog. The latest selection of manipulated abstract images (click on the thumbnails in the left-hand column) are vivid and original views of a city that has become all too familiar to us Tokyo residents.

On a personal note, tomorrow is my 33rd birthday...another year older and I keep wondering when I will feel like a 'grown up'. I have the dubious honour of being born the very day Jimi Hendrix died and share my birthday with Greta Garbo (last week, I actually visited Skogskyrkogården in Stockholm where she is buried, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site which is acclaimed for its early twentieth-century landscape and architectural design).