Sunday, July 30, 2006
A Side Temple
All the photos I posted from my trip to Nikko the other day were of flowers.... so here's one of a little side temple that I had never visited before - maybe it's not usually open.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Fireworks on TV
Friday, July 28, 2006
Lilies
Thursday, July 27, 2006
In Search of Zen
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Back to the bloggy
Being on summer holidays, one just getrs lazy about blogging.
Here are a couple of shots from last Saturday, the festival in Moka. I considered entering the girl on the portable shrine into the Gold challenge, but as I had already made a special detour on my trip to Tokyo, I decided to keep that one in (doing not very well...).
The main reason I went to the Moka Festival was to take photos of the fireworks. 20,000 of them in a show of 90 minutes or so. (It included a laser display which I couldn't see very well). At last I was able to try out the focussing technique, which I had read baout last year.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Bamboo Firefly
Hmm, been too busy to take photos until today - unofficially, the start of my summer vacation. So I went into Tokyo for some shopping. The train took about an hour longer than usual because the recent rains have affected the track in some places, so it means Go Slow.
Anyway, this bamboo firefly was in a window display in Asakusa.
Anyway, this bamboo firefly was in a window display in Asakusa.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Lantern-lined Street
I went down to Oyama yesterday and it rained heavily in the evening, apparently. Fortunately, when I was riding the bike back from the station it wasn't raining. I stopped and took this street scene, thinking it would fit the Lines challenge, but I don't think it would go over so well with the voters - certainly not compared to what the big guns will produce.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Not the Luxury Today
I thought I was only going have to teach only two lessons today, but my offsider Yui was away sick so I had to take her two classes as well. I had been hoping to do a whole lot of photo editing, which is why I took my computer in to school. In the end, I only got three done, including this bee. Through the viewfinder, I saw it create that droplet.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Ridiculous and Sublime
One of the sixth grade classes has a travel agency's calendar in the wall. The May picture was of Disneyworld in Florida with Mickey Mouse climbing the fake mountain (Matterhorn?). I thought it was very amusing. The June photo was of Mt Kilimanjaro, and they had cut out Mickey and stuck him in the picture. Very amusing. Last week I noticed that they hadn't changed it over to July yet, but today, there he was, floating over some part of Hawai.i. So I went and got my camera from the air-conditioned staff room and took a photo of it - but, as expected, the lens fogged up because of the change of temperature - hot and muggy classroom.
And then sunset just after 7pm. This is after a rainy day of hot and muggy weather - and FOG. It seems strange to have fog in summer, but there it is. It was especially evident in the morning in the town where I work.
And then sunset just after 7pm. This is after a rainy day of hot and muggy weather - and FOG. It seems strange to have fog in summer, but there it is. It was especially evident in the morning in the town where I work.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Busy Bumblebee
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Them Eyes
One of the dragonfly photos I took yesterday - a 100% crop; that is, no resizing, just cropped off edges to make the long side near 640pixels. I still haven't had time to do any deep and meaningful editing.
Having seen some of the entries in the Stationary challenge, maybe I shouldn't have entered this or similar....
Having seen some of the entries in the Stationary challenge, maybe I shouldn't have entered this or similar....
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Somewhat Stunned Dragon
Sunday, July 02, 2006
JPG Frog
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