Gallery: Brilliant Photos Capture Tokyo's Electric Colors in Unexpected Places
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Yoshinori Mizutani's * Tokyo Parrots * series features an unlikely resident of the mega metropolis: tropical birds.
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The birds are actually ring-nosed parakeets, native to India and Sri Lanka.
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A major part of Mizutani's shooting approach is the use of synchronized flash. In this series, the effect flattens his frames and adds an eerie shadow to the flapping wings.
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A number of the birds were apparently brought into Tokyo as pets in the '70s and '80s. They quickly became something of a feral animal, now numbering in the thousands in various parts of Japan.
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Mizutani first saw the parakeets in a tree some 60 meters from his house. Looking into their history, he became fascinated.
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I think it bothers the parrots to be photographed in the middle of the night while they’re sleeping," Mizutani says. "But because I’m shooting in pitch black, I have to use flash or else you won’t be able to see.”
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All of the photos in Tokyo Parrots were taken on the campus of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where more than a thousand have apparently made homes out of the ginko trees.
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Mizutani described the experience of seeing the parrots as similar to Hitchcock's *Birds*.
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The best time to shoot the birds is either at dawn or dusk, when they are leaving or returning to sleep in the trees.
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