Japan's voters may have overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Taro Aso at the polls last week, but he and my camera got along just fine.
The 68-year-old makes vigorous gestures with his hands and strong facial expressions. His crooked smirk and his eyes that sometimes seem to be popping out of his head always gave me a lot of interesting photo choices.
Now the photogenic Aso must pack his bags and hand over the prime ministerial house keys to Yukio Hatoyama , the leader of the new ruling Democratic Party of Japan.
Hatoyama, once nicknamed "the alien" for his prominent eyes, is -- visually at least -- less interesting except for his unruly locks that sometimes blow about in the wind.
The problem for me behind the viewfinder was that Hatoyama was expected to win by a landslide while Aso was the visual winner.
