Search ResultsI did a fun photoshoot today with Minh and Nghia, vacationing from San Jose, CA. We're all American, but they had almost as much trouble with my German-ancestry name as I did with their Vietnamese-ancestry names. Her name is pronounced "min", like the start of "Minnie Mouse". His sounds like "knee-ah". I literally haven't seen more than a smattering of the photos I took, but throwing a few darts at my Lightroom catalog brought up a few I can share right away. They started their vacation as a celebration of five years together, but Nghia had loftier plans... Continued here... View full post » It took a casual spin around Kyoto last weekend, as the cherry blossoms were starting to come in. Looking down the street from next to the construction, toward the right, it was a mad house: So, instead I went up the steep road that goes under the shrine arch seen two photos above. Not long past the shrine gate, I noticed a huge statue off to the side, and wondered how long it had been there and how I had never noticed it before: It turns out that it's been there since 1955, and is 24m (80') tall. I guess [...] View full post » 今回の写真は二年前の大雪の時の写真です。 Kyoto recently had a fairly big snow, but I didn't get out for photos, so I thought I'd post some additional photos from a pair of big-snow days that Kyoto had two years ago. First there was "Kyoto’s Biggest Snow in 58 Years" and its followup, about the big snow that started on New Year's day (2015). Then, two days later, there was an even bigger snow that garnered "Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow" posted in three parts (parts one, two, and three). View full post » A continuation from part one and part two of my nighttime stroll during a rare snowstorom in Kyoto on the early morning of January 3rd. The photo above is much less impressive than the actual view was, with the trees receding at various stages up the mountain in the background in crisp relief to the temporarily-clear sky, it had a particularly three-dimensional feel, with added weight and depth due to the heavily-laden trees. I wish I would have made it a Wigglegram. When this thought first popped in my mind as I wrote the caption above, it was as a [...] View full post » She could have been commenting on my inability to set up the tripod, aim the camera, and actually focus the shot properly in time, but I think she was talking about the weather. これは真夜中の大雪中の撮影散歩の続きの記事です。 今朝の零時から5時間の散歩をしました、平安神宮と南禅寺の周辺で。 京都新聞により, 61年ぶりに20センチを超えました。 At 7am this morning I posted "Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow" after having spent the night wandering around my area of Kyoto with a camera and tripod. I suspected that the evening's snowfall had beat the record-breaking snow of the previous day, and indeed now after four hours of sleep I see in the paper that it was the 4th most [...] View full post » |