Ryuxik Photography

Diary: travel and personal work

A woman tilts her chin up in profile behind dark wraparound sunglasses, daylight raking her throat, weathered painted wall behind.
Patchwork leather coat in brown and black panels, zigzag stitching and dark buttons running down the front, a pale hand at the cuff.
Leather coat hem swings mid-stride over cuffed blue jeans, one red sneaker smeared into motion blur against pale ground.
for DQ · Sep '25
A man with thick dark hair and a teal knit sweater looks just past the camera, soft even light on his face against a grey backdrop.
A man in a black puffer jacket and plaid scarf throws both arms wide and tips his head back beneath pink sunset clouds and city towers.
A bare hand reaching from a navy puffer sleeve extends one finger toward purple asters in a blurred autumn meadow under flat overcast light.
for VP · Mar '26
A woman in a long black coat and tan newsboy cap stands in profile at a railing, low sun washing the towers behind her.
Elbows on a low boulder, chin propped in one hand, a woman looks steadily into the lens with an orange willow behind her.
for GL · Nov '23
A woman with bleached streaks in her hair leans down open-mouthed to a rain-beaded monstera leaf, soft overcast light on her profile.
DQ turns to look back over her shoulder in a patchwork halter top and long sage skirt, a fruiting citrus tree crowding the frame.
A woman stands with both arms raised behind her head and eyes closed, warm pink sunset light on her shoulders, palm fronds blurred behind.
for DQ · Apr '24
The photographer, a man with dark curly hair, turns his face away as magenta and violet prism light streaks across it, one eye still visible.
Lit in saturated magenta, the photographer's face fills the frame with eyes lowered, a doubled ghost of his profile offset to one side.
The photographer covers his face with both hands, fingers over his cheeks, his shirt and curls smeared into pink and violet blur.
Self-portrait · Aug '26
Woman in a long grey belted coat stands in a lit doorway of a dark brick wall, mouth open wide, hands raised and clawed.
A hooded figure blown out to pure white and far out of focus fills the foreground, a lit suspension bridge and dusk river behind.
A hand with fingers spread reaches toward a chipped orange standpipe valve set into red brick, the wall receding into dim evening light.
Close profile of a woman's face lit in magenta, one eye sunk in shadow, a metal hoop through her nostril.
for DQ · Nov '25
A woman in a denim jacket and rainbow striped trousers pauses on a paved path through tall bamboo, turning back into soft shaded light.
A woman in a dark shearling coat stands open mouthed at the top of wet stone steps, a vermilion torii gate rising over her at dusk.
A woman beside a red pillar on a shuttered market street holds her magenta bag strap, low late sun raking her face and the wall behind.
for DQ · Mar '26
A woman in a grey fur coat smiles faintly against a vermilion temple door, hard low sun raking the gold bosses above her.
Bespectacled woman in a shearling collared denim coat stands beneath three concrete apartment towers, hands pocketed, sky a hazy pink.
Grinning woman in a fur collar coat holds a red kite reel, a printed butterfly kite lifting beside her into deep blue sky.
Silhouetted figure in a peaked cap set against a burst of white firework sparks, blurred orange street lights scattered through the dark.
Lunar New Year · Feb '26
A climber in a cap and white tee stretches for a high hold on red brown rock, the leafy background swirled into radial streaks.
A dark haired man in a faded purple tee crimps a hold on a lichen mottled boulder, lips pursed, backlit autumn leaves behind him.
A man in a cap and white tee stands atop a hold studded bouldering wall against deep blue sky, a blurred hand pointing in from the corner.
for KT & JB · Oct '25
Black cat filling the frame in deep blue light, pale slit-pupil eyes fixed on the lens, whiskers catching the glow.
A tabby emerges from near darkness, the white blaze down its muzzle picking up cold blue light, ears held upright.
One cat presses its face into another's pale fur in blue darkness, with a single catchlight in its half-open eye.
Mumu & Guava · Aug '26
Bumblebee burrowed into the cup of a broad orange blossom, its black and pale fur soft and out of focus against green.
Bee in flight silhouetted beside a low sun, wings lit translucent, a tall flower spike standing dark against the amber sky.
Metallic green fly perched on the tip of a golden petal, the flower's dark domed center glowing red in low sun.
Garden macros · Aug '26
Shoppers move down a narrow market street in deep shade while a hanging flag, cherry branches and blue sky fill the light above.
A latticed broadcast tower glows orange and gold against black night sky, framed by clusters of pink blossom thrown far out of focus.
Glossy scarlet and gold ornament sits inside a display case behind weathered wooden bars, two black eye holes above a pleated gold panel.
Koi crowd just below the surface of still dark water, one pale fish turning up toward the light beside two floating maple leaves.
A dark timber temple gate stands behind raked white gravel, its curved tile roof lit by flat hazy sun, a rake left in the foreground.
Blossoming cherry trees smear into radial streaks around a grass path strewn with fallen pink petals, the whole grove pulled toward the center.
A tower's observation deck hangs high overhead as a small ring of orange and white light, the rest of the frame solid black.
A rusted metal utility cover sits flush in concrete paving, two slotted openings above a fringe of bright green moss and a single dried leaf.
Rows of moss-crusted stone figures crowd a hillside, one broad grinning face filling the foreground while vertical streaks blur the ranks behind.
A red-painted temple guardian statue scowls through a narrow vertical gap between dark timber pillars, muscled torso caught in a slot of light.
A white-lacquered festival mask fills the frame, strands of real black hair falling over a gold leaf eye and red brow strokes.
Two tiled temple roofs overlap against heavy grey cloud, gilded ridge ornaments on the far ridgeline catching the last warm light.
Bare concrete walls converge overhead as a drainpipe climbs toward a wedge of cold blue evening sky, the whole frame sunk in shadow.
Pale pink apartment blocks and a slatted rooftop screen rise over the dark curve of an elevated roadway wall against deep blue dusk.
A canal runs straight between signboard-covered buildings toward a white blown-out sky, moored boats and street lights doubled into soft overlapping smears.
Japan · Mar '26
Crowds in winter coats fill the terraces below a round triple eaved temple hall, its blue tiled roofs lit by low sun.
Lattice observation tower crowned with five interlocking rings glows green and pink above a night plaza where people cross in padded coats.
Weathered armored vehicle seen low over its hull, a white starburst emblem on the plating and gun barrel angled into dark pines.
Beijing · Feb '26
Clipped garden parterres and a weathered stone terrace seen through a blurred window opening, bright midday sun on the gravel paths below.
A gull's head peers over the white parapet of a brown clapboard building, deep blue sky and thin cirrus filling the rest of the frame.
An older woman in a rust blazer glances sideways through a gap between dark blurred shapes, a hand of playing cards raised in front.
Miami · Jan '25
A woman in a grey sweater sits under a boat's blue-trimmed canopy, half smiling as she looks across still water to hazy hills.
Yellow ginkgo trees frame a hillside temple complex of ochre walls and grey tiled roofs, a tiered pagoda rising against pale sky.
Red-faced temple guardian statue snarls with one hand raised, pink lotus lamps overhead and yellow offering flowers blurred across the foreground.
Hangzhou & Nanjing · Dec '24
Blue balloon resting on a yellow wire cafe chair, low sun raking across gravel and empty tables on a plaza.
White bull terrier curled asleep on a cushioned window ledge behind glass, warm afternoon light washing the pale sill.
Woman in a black tee sits with arms crossed over her knees, head cropped off, seen low across a blurred tabletop.
A black and tan dog strides past a sunlit brick warehouse, a man in white seated on the steps beyond, foreground shapes blurred.
Overlapping curved metal canopies fill the frame in black and white, wooden pilings and rippled harbor water visible beyond them.
Branches of white blossom and young green leaves reach upward against a flat, deeply saturated blue sky in full daylight.
Film diary · Nov '25