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Most people think that technology is for young people, but nobody told Kimiko Nishimoto that. She's an 89-year-old Japanese grandma who's been snapping and editing her own pictures for the last 17 years, and as you can see below, her style is certainly unique!

She didn't get into photography until she was 72 years old. Her son was teaching a beginner's course and so she decided to enroll, unaware that she was about to awake a passion and a talent she never even knew she had. She instantly fell in love with photography and set about snapping various quirky and comical self-portraits. She had her first solo exhibition ten years later, at a local museum in her home town of Kumamoto, and now she's about to have her work exhibited at Tokyo's Epson epsite imaging gallery. Titled “Asobokane" - meaning "let's play" - the exhibition will feature previously unseen work from the octogenarian artist, so if you happen to be in Tokyo between December 15, 2017 and January 18, 2018 then be sure to check it out. Think you're too old to try something new? Think again.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is just wrong.... isn't it better to hang wet grandmas by their feet?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the bus was parked, and she edited the picture with motion/blur filters to get this effect

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would think the driver of the bus would have had a heart attack!

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think that we all are having some issues, or "just" stories in our lives - so we shouldn't have found this picture funny, or even hilarious. But, sometimes it's crazy magnificent to be able to just laugh and have fun making a joke of yourself... Being a kid again, kind of. We don't know what's the story behind this picture, but just imagine how many sad stories she had in her life, and she survived everything. Now, she's having fun. And probably thinking that life is too short. Maybe it's a healing process. She's having a tremendous amount of spirit. I'm in love with this kind of people, they are so rare and beautiful, I think that we should applaud to that type of personality. :D

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