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There were plenty of folks enjoying the blossoms, but it was quiet and relaxed, nothing at all like the ugly, disgusting spectacle you so often find (that I wrote about seven years ago in "The Ugliness of Japanese Cherry-Blossom Viewing"). It wasn't even like "Cherry-Blossom Joie de Vivre in Kyoto". It was just a normal [...]
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I love April-Fool's jokes. I don't care so much for ones played on me by someone I don't know, by a source I don't trust. No, it's best when it's a friend or trusted source, when the joke is so good that I actually regret having given them my trust. Yes, the satisfaction you feel [...]
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Dark buds have been slowly making the cherry-tree branches bumpy, but today they suddenly erupted with color. No blossoms as of yet, but the color is clearly there where yesterday there was none. The blossoms are quite late this year. Comparing to the my cherry-blossom timelapse from 2007, this year seems to be about five [...]
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Before After "Chipping" my Nikon-Mount Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 As most folks guessed correctly in my golden bumpy "What am I?" quiz, the object is a lens CPU chip/contacts set. I'm surprised so many people knew what it was because I had no idea they existed until recently. It allows one to update an old lens [...]
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Well, this is surprising: iOS does not seem to be color managed. At all. This is a long and technical article. Here's the table of contents: Introduction Color Management Embedded Color-Profile Support Device-Specific Color Profiles The Curiously-Deficient "SpyderGallery" App What's Next One Last Caveat Introduction #post1964 p.h { margin-top: 60px; font-size: 130% } With all [...]
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I had a small but tasty get-together the other day with some friends, including recent graduates of the school I wrote about the other day in "Kyoto Butsugen College of Massage". This was at Uroko (鱗), a restaurant near the corner of Shijo/Kawaramachi in Kyoto, that I really like for their 蛇の目焼き (janomeyaki) grilled chicken, [...]
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I don't understand Apple's newly-announced dividend, nor the coverage I've seen so far, which seems to equate the dividend with "free money", manna from heaven, as if two fundamental facts didn't exist: taking money from the company and giving to the stock holders reduces the value of the stock by exactly that amount, and for [...]
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So I was going through the photos from last weekend's Kyoto Marathon （京都マラソン２０１２) and came across an out-of-focus shot that I'd normally just delete, but it had some kind of odd sense of space about it that I found somehow appealing, and wondered whether I couldn't use some funky processing to turn the lack of [...]
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Some random desktop backgrounds in my photo library from the past year. I used these as practice with the new render engine in Lightroom 4, which I like but am not completely used to yet. Often, a photo here is from some trip or event that I already blogged about; the "nearby photos" link under [...]
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So picking up from my previous post about the Kyoto Marathon （京都マラソン２０１２), once the runners started arriving, I practiced taking photos. The depth of field with this lens is so incredibly thin that it's only luck that I got anything, but like hitting the lottery to get something so close like the next shot: It [...]
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Not far from the temple where the Japanese archery event I've been posting about was held, there's a college of massage called Kyoto Butugen (京都仏眼鍼灸理療専門学校). It's closer to the American idea of physical therapy than "massage".... words like "relaxation" and "aromatherapy" have no place here. The doctors (which in this case are students in a [...]
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As I mentioned in my previous post, yesterday was the Kyoto Marathon （京都マラソン２０１２). I thought it'd be a fun experience to photograph, to see what I could come up with. The first challenge was to pick a location along the 42-kilometer course that was both photogenic and accessable. (Huge swaths of the city were shut [...]
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It's been a while since one of my "What am I?" quizzes, so I thought I'd throw this one up. Like this quiz and this one, it's got some long thin things in it, but it's not related to either previous post. It's also not related to music. So, what do we have here?
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I complain sometimes about how stressful my plugin development can get, and the time surrounding a major plugin event like we've had this week all the more so, but I shouldn't complain. I found myself in somewhat of an absurdly happy situation today, and thought that life wasn't all that bad. I was enjoying a [...]
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Taking a break from the craziness that ensued for me yesterday when Lightroom 4 was released, I thought I'd pick up from last month's "Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine: Intense Burn Begins". Once the blaze was going in earnest, they started throwing bundles of wooden slats into the fire, each slat with someone's wish [...]
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After a two-month public beta, Adobe has just released Lightroom 4.0. It's not a free upgrade, but with the price now cut in half (upgrades are now $80), it's an easy decision.* There's a lot new if you're coming from Lr3, the most important likely being the new rendering engine. Laura Shoe has a post [...]
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I continue to be busy getting my Lightroom Plugins ready for the next release of Lightroom 4 (the real thing if not another beta)... I just don't seem to have the energy to much else, but I hate not posting every day, much less every week(!) So for something easy to post today, I just [...]
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It's been a while since I last posted about the traditional Japanese archery event that I attended last month. I left off a while ago with "Traditional Japanese Archery: More Ladies, Part 2", and you can see all the posts about the event via any of the "nearby photos" link under each picture. The main [...]
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Three and a half months ago, after a lot of research and Lightroom plugin development, I published the long writeup "How To Best Export Lightroom Images to an iPad, iPhone, Etc.", about my Lightroom-to-iPad workflow at the time. It's now completely out of date. Most everything about my workflow has changed, all of it for [...]
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Among the photos on "Intense Burn Begins", my most recent post about the Setsubun festival at the Heian Shrine earlier this month, was Ripples, showing a thin slice of focus in the tumultuous heated hair near the burning pyre. This post is a bunch more of the same, just 'cause I think it's interesting. What [...]
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