About tamjpn  

Sinsong says:
"she's been one of my favourite photographers here on flickr since the first day i came across her stream. her pictures and images never make u tired of them.she captures the little details in her days in her own unique way. refreshing and natural. love her."

Dror Poleg says:
"It is hard to find the right words. Describing Tam's photos will not do them justice. Condensed beauty, and a unique point of view that makes me squirm with pleasure. Portraits, lansdscape, urban, rural... different situation, but always a feeling of something lost, a ]shadow, a grey cloud, a pond of dark water threatening to take over everything.

I love your work. Keep it up."

yuki says:
"Beauty, colors, emotion, the perfect moment, and more beauty are compressed into tam's photographs. Definitely my favorite female Japanese photographer!"

tokyogoat says:
"absolute superstar....

prepare to have your day turned on it's head..."

tALSit de CoD says:
"Incredible eye. This is what photography is about. Not about showing a picture, but about telling a story about yourself. Wonderful stuff."

willster says:
"I can't believe I've not written Tamao a testimonial until now! Tamjpn as she is known is one of the reason's I love Flickr so much. I look forward to both her images and her comments. How she finds time to comment on other people's images as well as develop her own unique style, and presumably hold down a job in the real world, I don't know. Her great sense of humour and acerbic whit has made her a firm Flickr friend. I hope one day outside of all this web 2.0 social networking cr*p I'll meet her for a coffee 'IRL'. As long as you keep posting images I'll keep looking at them."

elsakawai™ says:
"she capture wonderful moments of everything, as I always enjoy seeing her wonderful work, truly amazing... :) kis kis"

Axl™ says:
"i'll be short : she's great."

enzym says:
"From what I believe Tamao-san's photos are the most beautiful in here. Of course plenty of nice photographers in FLICKR, although her quality is much much different. I could feel the Zen, Wabi-Sabi, something different and special about her photos.

I love the colour, mood and angle on her photos.

She has very poetic way of looking at surroundings. Beautiful lighting and colour, almost everything is as if in slow-motion.

I remember movie "Love Collage" aka "Love of Our Days" with Ryoko Hirosue and Ryuhei Matsuda in that movie. Some of Tammy's photos reminds me of the movie.

She is my no.1 favourite for aesthetics dreamy quality."

Pumpkin Way says:
"I think that your work is great. The colors are so vivid. The textures are so strong. And the composition is so interesting."

shoegazer says:
".tam has the unique ability to capture the world in which she lives perfectly with every picture that she takes.

.i'm always amazed at the diversity and thoughtfulness of her subjects. i can never put my finger on what exactly it is about her style: her eye for composition, excellent use of light & shadows, color schemes and understanding of balance, all working together to create stunning images. urban zen at its finest!.

.thank you for sharing your images!."

noqontrol says:
"Seeing reality through her eyes is a wonderful inspiration for me.There is consistent formal elegance and fresh point of view in her entire photostream.
The ordinary objects and situations become charged with intimacy and mystery.
All what I can say is that I like the world she lives in..."

alfarman says:
"tamjpn images are true delight and the way she looks at the world is inspiring..her image have a wonderful clarity and colour."

yongfook says:
"Reasons why I like Ms Tamao Funahashi:

1) She shares a similar fascination with crap Japanese 駄菓子 as I do. One of my hobbies, which mutated into a dark, dark curse, is sampling the delightful world of rubbishy sub-standard Japanese snack food and candy products, for fun and leisure. I can think of nothing better to do on a sunny Saturday afternoon than staying completely indoors with the latest smegma-fragranced offering from Ebisen (the popular Japanese prawn cracker that reinvents itself every few months, meaning we - the consumer - can currently choose between mayonnaise prawn flavour or curry prawn flavour) and perhaps surfing the internet and downloading gigabyte upon gigabyte of pornography. Tam-chan fits into this routine by constantly offering me new ideas on products to try, such as Oden in a can, or the new and awesome-sounding alcoholic TEA that is gracing convenience store shelves as I speak.

2) She takes nice photos.

3) She has helped me out a lot during the last few months. It’s been mad for me in the last few months, changing jobs, apartments etc - Tam-chan has been the calm little eye of my ultra-destroying hurricane wind of fear and wide-eyed uncertainty at everything. From helping me with keigo (or, Arse-Kiss Japanese (tm)) to showing me good places to look for apartments, her help has been indispensable. Without her advice, I imagine the following situations:

Me: *walks confidently into interview room for new job and wipes cock all over the 社長’s face* Hi, my name is Jon, word up.
会社代表取締役：Please leave our office.

Me: *looks at cardboard box, in a quiet corner of 上野公園* So, this is 8万円 a month?
Housing Agent: Yes. It’s very cosy. In winter you use candle.
Me: Is there a shower?
Housing Agent. No, it’s a cardboard box. You give me money.

4) She likes the music I make and sent me a cute picture of herself holding an iPod playing one of my songs. That was awesome. Usually, being a Z-list internet celebrity, my inbox is inundated with pictures of naked women holding signs saying things like “I love you yongfook! I love you and that’s why I have to kill you!!”, but somehow, Tam-chan’s picture even though not nude, meant so much more.

5) She has an April birthday, which means that like me, she is an Aries. Here’s what the internet says about Aries’ character traits, and we all know that if you read it on the internet, it must be true:

The GOOD side: Aries is a courageous leader, likely to take risks and will usually feel: "I know best". Aries rarely hangs around to check out the details. However give Aries a good cause for which to fight, a problem to solve, or something to pioneer, and this enterprising personality comes into its own.

The BAD side: Strangely enough for this very active sign, one of its main failings is procrastination. Aries is extremely impatient and intolerant of delay.
Aries is likely to put off what must be done, (like bills and tax returns!). Aries will resort to lies rather than be inconvenienced by the uninteresting, or be forced to do that which they do not want to do.
Arians can be blunt, ignorantly offensive, or employ bullying tactics to selfishly get their own way.

But in general, we are awesome.
Happy Birthday from Yongfook ;)"