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Annie Leibovitz Captures Unexpected Portraits At The Peninsula

Another year, another awesome series of portraits of the staff of Peninsula Hotels by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. It's the fifth year for the partnership between the luxury hotels and Leibovitz, and they've given her free rein to roam the Peninsula Chicago and Peninsula Tokyo properties in order to capture what truly is the spirit of the brand in its employees.

The resulting images will delight both hotel dorks and lovers of black & white photography, as we'd not only love to have the picture above hanging over our couch, but we find it moving in terms of illustrating the Peninsula's tradition of ultra-attentive service. Other pictures feature the doormen, like Chicago's lead doorman Timothy Hitchcock helping a young girl into a car, and even laundry staff and room attendants.

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Dive Into Photography at The Divi Resort in Bonaire

Where: J.A. Abraham Blvd 40, Kralendijk, Bonaire, Virgin Islands, British

Say "Bonaire," that laid back little spit of land in the Caribbean, and people will respond, "diving paradise."

For decades, the island has been a world-class diving destination with a gorgeous reef. Go to Flickr and you'll get just a small taste of astonishing shots of the island from the underside.

But you're thinking there's no WAY you can take pictures like that, right? This can be remedied.

Divi Flamingo Beach Resort just announced its onsite camera shop, Capture Photo, is offering a class for all levels of swimmers and shutterbugs to perfect their sub-aquatic shots.

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Hello Kitty S&M Room At Hotel Adonis Osaka

Earlier this year Dwell magazine contributor Misty Keasler displayed her Japanese Love Hotel photos at Jenkins Johnson Gallery New York, and Photographs Do Not Bend in Dallas.

Misty lived in Japan for eight months, and while she was there she took enough stunning love hotel photos to put together a book--Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan

As we have discussed before, there are 30,000 to 40,000 love hotels in Japan that are frequented by young unmarried couples who live with their families, married couples who may live in very tight quarters with family, couples in extramarital affairs, prostitutes with their customers, and Kelly Osbourne. These hotels feature "menus" and while you can stay in a room for the night, if you check in after 10 P.M., most folks rent these rooms by the hour.

The above photo was taken by Misty, at Hotel Adonis, a Osaka love hotel specializing in S&M rooms featuring cute cartoon characters. One of the rooms at Adonis, the Hello Kitty S&M room features a Kitty plush doll wearing a ball gag, blind fold, and barbed wire garter belts.

Hotel Adonis also has rooms with glow in the dark jelly fish, a prison cell, and a high school classroom.

We have done our best to put Hotel Adonis Osaka on our Japanese Love Hotels map, let us know if the location needs changing.

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