" tokyololas" is actually just one person from Toronto, Canada, named Laura MacKinnon and, although it looks as if she is cracking into a thousand pieces, she is actually all in one piece and living in Tokyo, Japan, where she has been on and off since the late 90s.

After travelling to a number of places over the years and taking a lot of not-quite-good-enough photos, she decided to take the art of lugging camera equipment a bit more seriously: she bought a heavier camera and more lenses and had the camera surgically attached to her hand. After spending a year or two taking an average of 100 photos a day, she wound up with several back-up hard drives (all needing to be catalogued and organized) and a love of candid street photography & candid street portraiture:

However, one can only turn one's attention to one thing for so long before it becomes like shooting fish in a barrel, so she does not limit herself to shooting people on the street: there are buildings to be shot, clouds to be shot, seasonal flowers to be shot, business people to be shot and, sometimes, she'll even shoot her cat (who, as you can see, can barely contain his excitement at the prospect)

(I imagine the phrase "shooting people in the street" raises an alert with Homeland Security, but, of course, we're talking a Canon, not a cannon or any other firearm)

In addition to taking more photos than she can possibly catalogue, tokyololas likes drinking coffee and reading books that either teach her something practical, teach her something about cognitive function (note that this does not fall under the heading "practical"), move her eye to a point of wonder, or transport her to another world, place, or time through well-crafted prose*

 

*tokyololas takes book recommendations very seriously and does not enjoy spending her time reading crappily written novels that have been written so that they can be turned into screenplays, so, if you are thinking of recommending something like "The Lovely Bones" or "The Kite Runner", save yourself the trouble: both were pitched across the room in exasperation.