The Eyes of Amina

Anyone who has talked to me much knows I will always say that it’s the eyes of a girl that first get my attention. After that, it’s personality followed by the usual physical things that guys notice. When I think of the eyes in AKB48, a couple of girls spring to my mind, but none have the soul-stealing orbs of  Sato Amina.

I don’t know her secret, but she has the biggest, darkest eyes I’ve ever encountered. Some speculate that she uses those circle contact lenses that girls wear to give themselves oversized “anime” pupils. I can’t say that she does or not, but if she wears them, she has never ever been caught with them off.

I was fortunate enough to see AKB48 when they came to New York City last Autumn. I am something of an enthusiastic amateur photographer, so I had my big pro-looking DSLR with me when they performed a “mini live” at the convention.

I was near the front and the stage was very low, if the lighting was better it would have been perfect photography conditions. I shot hundreds of pics and got a lot of good eye contact during the performance. I think the fact that I was tall, not asian and aiming a honking big lens at them helped me stand out a lot in that regard.

The girls may be conditioned to look into the camera lens, lord knows they’ve had millions of shots taken of them over the years. I noticed, when I reviewed my photos later, that pretty much every shot that had Sato Amina in it, had her looking right into my camera, and into my soul as well.

Amina looked really jet-lagged that morning but she still gave it her all at the mini-live, and looked recovered in time for the big show at Webster Hall the next day. Hopefully in the near future, I will get the chance to look into those marvelous eyes again and maybe recover my soul.

In the meantime, she is watching us from the top of my blog all day, every day.