November 2022
Nov	18	A Superficial Introduction to Japanese Traffic Signage for Bicyclists

November 2021
Nov	17	Photos Appearing in 2021
Nov	17	Photos Appearing in 2020
Nov	17	Photos Appearing in 2019
Nov	17	My First Visit to the Suzuka Circuit Enduro Races
July 2021
Jul	15	Demolishing an Almost-New Building, Because Why Not?
June 2021
Jun	16	Konpira: Checking Out One of the Most Difficult Climbs in Japan
May 2021
May	24	A Very Unintended Gravel Ride
March 2021
Mar	12	Serendipitous Surprise: Running Into My Own Photography in Kyoto Station

September 2020
Sep	1	New Lightroom Feature to Compare Photo Edits
March 2020
Mar	12	My Second-Longest Ride: Double-Century Ride to Ise City

December 2019
Dec	1	The Quiet, Lovely Kotokuji Temple in Shiga
November 2019
Nov	28	New Lightroom Plugin: Collection Mechanic
October 2019
Oct	29	A Few Autumn Photos From Last Year
May 2019
May	28	My Second-Longest Ride: 304km Adventure with Gorm
April 2019
Apr	19	Commemorative Saké for the Rugby World Cup in Japan
March 2019
Mar	24	Final Construction, Japanese Style
February 2019
Feb	23	GPS-Settings Info for Bryton Rider 450 Cycling-Computer Users
January 2019
Jan	27	Temple Overlooking a Frosty Kyoto

December 2018
Dec	17	Native Languages
Dec	17	Photos Appearing in 2018
Dec	12	Wigglegram of a Tea House at the Shugakuin Imperial Villa in Kyoto
Dec	9	Another Visit to the Shugakuin Imperial Villa in Northeastern Kyoto
Dec	2	Abstract Art from the Archive
November 2018
Nov	30	Valerie Wigglegram at the Eigenji Temple
Nov	22	A Peek at Not-Yet-Peak Autumn Colors in Japan, To Pique Your Interest
Nov	15	Kyoto's 2018 Fall Foliage Season is Upon Us
September 2018
Sep	20	Surveying Supertyphoon Jebi’s Damage North of Kyoto, Part 2
Sep	10	Surveying Supertyphoon Jebi's Damage North of Kyoto, Part 1
Sep	7	SUPER FUN!! Cycling in Supertyphoon Jebi (2018 Typhoon #21)
Sep	3	Discovering and Cycling Japan's Biggest Climb
August 2018
Aug	4	Josée Houle's Milk Ninja
July 2018
Jul	31	Cycling Mt. Fuji
Jul	14	Climbing Mt. Fuji at Night
Jul	8	A Minor Warning About WhatsApp: The PC Version Doesn't Work If Your Phone Breaks
June 2018
Jun	7	Announcing my Upload-to-Google-Photos Plugin for Lightroom: Prepare to be Disappointed
May 2018
May	31	Finally Back on The Road, Exploring Roads Near Hiyoshi Dam
April 2018
Apr	27	Nghia and Minh in Kyoto, Part 3
Apr	25	The Miniature-Life work of Tatsuya Tanaka
Apr	20	Personalizing Lightroom's Amazing New "Auto Tone" Feature
Apr	6	Cherry-Blossom Portraits with Monet and May
Apr	6	Short but Lovely Hike on Mt. Daimonji
Apr	3	Okinawa Ride Day 1
March 2018
Mar	29	Cherry Blossoms are Quite Early in Kyoto This Year
Mar	10	R.I.P. My Beloved 2½-year-old Rose X-Lite
Mar	6	Perfect Itineracy Gets Dorked by Delta, Sort of Fixed; Keeping Fingers Crossed
Mar	2	Riding in Okinawa
February 2018
Feb	28	My "Ride" to Okinawa
Feb	23	Test Ride to Osaka Airport
Feb	10	Delta Airlines: Gauging the Quality of Your Customer-Service Representatives, Done Right.
Feb	9	Jason and Yukikaze at the Kyoto Cyclocross Race
Feb	5	Jason and Joey in Kyoto
January 2018
Jan	24	A Compliment or an Insult? One of the Costs of Apple Ownership....
Jan	22	Kafe Kosen: Quite the Unique (and Delicious) Coffee Experience in Kyoto

December 2017
Dec	24	Announcing a New Plugin for Adobe Lightroom: Smart-Collection Sync to Adobe's Lightroom CC Cloud
Dec	24	Photos Appearing in 2017
Dec	19	Impromptu Portraits at Horseshoe Bend
Dec	8	Curiosities and Discoveries While Searching for the Eisho-in Temple
November 2017
Nov	30	What I'm Sure Won't Be My Last Wigglegram from the Eisho-in Temple
Nov	28	Lovely View from the Konkaikomyou-ji Temple's Cemetary
Nov	25	On Government's Use of Force, and Net Neutrality
Nov	23	A Few Views of Kyoto's Spectacular Eisho-in Temple, and More
Nov	22	My First Ride to Kyoto's Deep-Mountain Soren-ji Temple
Nov	18	First Taste of Kyoto's Fall-Foliage Season, 2017 Edition
Nov	5	Because It's There: a 400km Ride Around and Around Lake Biwa
October 2017
Oct	28	2017's Typhoon #21 (Lan) was Quite the Doozy for Kyoto
Oct	17	An Enkoji-Temple Fall-Foliage Preview
Oct	7	Minh and Nghia Wigglegram at the Murin'an Garden
Oct	6	Finally Venturing Inside Northern Kyoto's Kurama Temple
September 2017
Sep	26	Joshua's Eclectic Birthday Ride
Sep	23	Nghia and Minh in Kyoto, Part 2
Sep	23	Fun Exercise to Try at Home: Suicide by Squats
Sep	9	Alexis's Tour de Kyoto
Sep	6	Minh and Nghia Photoshoot Preview
Sep	4	Exploring the Nooks and Cranies of Ohara on a Fine Summer Day
August 2017
Aug	27	My Cycling is All "Fasted" Recently, and I Don't Know Why (But I'm Not Complaining)
Aug	20	An Unforgettable Dinner at AIC Akitsushima Kyoto
Aug	16	Taran and Kate at the Heian Shrine, Part 3
Aug	13	The Silliness of Japanese Medicine-Dosage Rules
Aug	11	Taran and Kate at the Heian Shrine, Part 2
Aug	9	Taran and Kate at the Heian Shrine
Aug	5	Revisiting That Mountain Roller Slide From Years Ago
July 2017
Jul	17	Pleasant Boat Ride on a Pleasant Arashiyama Evening
Jul	5	The Sagan/Cavendish Crash Aftermath: Irresponsible Journalism
Jul	4	Quick Test Photoshoot at Kyoto Tea Ceremony Camellia GARDEN
Jul	2	Disgusted with Apple's Deceptive Marketing for Their "Beats" Headphones
June 2017
Jun	24	Looking for Cycling Wear With a Little Protection Built In
Jun	17	Kyoto's "Happy Bicycle" Craft Shop
Jun	11	March's Higashiyama Hanatoro Lightup, 2017 Edition
May 2017
May	31	Pulling Out Your Own Hair, and Other Joys Of Cell-Phone Contracts
May	23	Volunteering at the Tour of Japan Pro Cycling Race
May	20	Century of Wazuka Climbs, Part 2
May	15	Fall-Foliage Wigglegram from Kyoto's Flower Temple
May	13	A FIT-to-GPX Converter that Understands FIT Version 2
May	11	Lovely Century Ride Into Hyogo
May	4	Nigel's Birthday Craziness: Ascending Hanase Pass on a Mamachari
April 2017
Apr	30	Century of Wazuka Climbs, Part 1
Apr	24	Wild Cherry Blossoms and Fun Fast Descents
Apr	21	ROTOR Valiantly Succeeds in Avoiding my Money
Apr	10	Cycling From Kyoto to Amanohashidate and Back
Apr	7	Putzing Around Kyoto on a Fine Spring Day
Apr	3	Moriyama Criterium: The Category-4 Races
Apr	1	Some Gritty Drizzly-Dusk Shots in Kyoto
March 2017
Mar	31	Youth Races at the Moriyama Criterium
Mar	31	Visiting That Temple I Saw From The Bullet Train Last Week
Mar	27	Meeting Ram and Krish Kulkarni in Tokyo
Mar	24	My Most Brutal Ride: Round Trip to Mt. Rokko
Mar	21	First Bigish Group Ride in a Long While
Mar	20	Watching My First Cycling Road Race
Mar	12	Behind Suntory's Yamazaki Whisky Distillery
Mar	3	Exploring the Steep Nooks and Crannies Near the Suntory Yamazaki Whisky Distillery
February 2017
Feb	28	Suntory Yamazaki Whisky Distillery Tour (2017) Preview
Feb	28	Plum Blossoms and Some Mountain Climbs
Feb	25	Kyoto Marathon 2017
Feb	23	Insanity!? Shopping Trip to Costco by Bicycle
Feb	19	Winning the Kyoto Marathon 2017 (Papa Division)
Feb	16	Enjoying Delicious Nankotsu at Torikizoku
Feb	12	Snowy Cycleversary Mountain-Ride Challenge, Part 2
Feb	10	Snowy Cycleversary Mountain-Ride Challenge, Part 1
Feb	3	Heian Shrine Setsubun Burn, 2017: Lackluster Photos of a Visually-Exciting Event
Feb	2	Snowy Ride With Lots of New-Expressway Construction
January 2017
Jan	23	Discovering a New Cycling Route from Kyoto to Osaka
Jan	20	Revisiting Kyoto's Big Snow from Early 2015
Jan	18	Rest in Peace, Rob Cole
Jan	12	Cycling Through Bamboo Groves and Up Steep Mountain Slopes
Jan	3	Reflections on my 2016 Cycling Year

December 2016
Dec	28	Updating Maps for Cycling, Including Japan's Pseudo One-Way Roads
Dec	28	Photos Appearing in 2016
Dec	25	Jolly Hat
Dec	16	Reports of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Dec	11	Meeting my Match on a Long Iga-Nara-Osaka Cycling Adventure
Dec	6	A Deeply-Red "Wisdom King" at the Ushio Kannon Temple
November 2016
Nov	29	Benefits of Cycling #27: Freeing Yourself from the Coffin of Electronics Our Modern Lives Have Become
Nov	28	Rear Courtyard at the Eigenji Temple
Nov	26	Victoria Bampton's Lightroom-Misunderstandings Article
Nov	25	The Back Entrance to Shiga's Eigenji Temple
Nov	24	Group Hanase Climb, and Full Carpet at the Ochiba Shrine
Nov	23	Anatomy of a Selfie
Nov	22	More on Friday's Fall-Foliage Outing to the Ochiba Shrine
Nov	18	Checking On the Carpet of Yellow at the Ochiba Shrine
Nov	16	Ninth Anniversary of my Lightroom Plugin Work
Nov	8	Update on my Bike-Mount Failure: K-EDGE Comes Through
Nov	7	Approaching Onyu Pass
Nov	5	200km Fast Sprint to Onyu Pass + Obama + Gonami
Nov	1	A Solo Version of The Recent Social Ride to Onyu Pass
October 2016
Oct	29	Bad Experience with Amazon Fire TV, and Unhelpful Amazon Response
Oct	26	Pleasant Social Ride to Onyu Pass
Oct	23	Congratulations to Tetsuo for his Restaurant's Michelin Star
Oct	17	A Visit (or Four) to Kyoto's Ushio Kannon Temple
Oct	15	Social Ride to the Quaint Mountain Village of Miyama, With a Twist
Oct	13	Some Solo Exploration Beyond Mt. Atago
Oct	9	Sort of Silly Cycling: Covering the Full Length National Routes 367 and 162 Just for the Sake of It
Oct	2	What an Adventure: a Slow but (Mentally) Grueling Century Ride
September 2016
Sep	25	Feeling Good: Leg Healing Well, and Good Deeds Done
Sep	20	Looking Ahead To Fall with a few Shots from Last Season
Sep	19	Last January's Chilly Ride To the Middle-of-Nowhere Sokushoji Temple
Sep	17	More Exploring Uji by Bicycle, and Exploring my Cycling Psychology
Sep	15	Adding Your Own Custom Photo-Metadata Fields to Lightroom
Sep	15	Out of Action For a While with a Ripped Calf Muscle )-:
Sep	9	Visiting and Abandoned Thatched-Roof Restaurant
August 2016
Aug	31	Getting Garmin Software (VIRB Edit, etc.) to Work with Your GPX Files
Aug	29	Lovely Bicycle Ride Revisiting Uji Countryside Photographed Five Years Ago
Aug	22	Returning to Kyoto, to Hot Summer Cycling and Destroying my iPhone
Aug	15	Strava Segment Tutorial: Removing Suckage and Promoting Quality
Aug	13	A Couple of Autumn Wigglegrams for My Niece Jena
Aug	8	More Summer Fun
Aug	6	Toolin' Around on a Mini Baja
July 2016
Jul	27	Kyoto to Ohio, Summer 2016 Edition
Jul	14	Monday's Norikura Big Loop Ride
Jul	13	Norikura: Cycling Japan's Highest Road (Three Times)
Jul	6	Rainy Tiring Fun-Descent 213km Round Trip To Obama with Gorm
Jul	4	Tea Tour with Manseki and Gorm
June 2016
Jun	29	Making Shimano SPD-SL Cleat Covers Not Suck
Jun	27	Grueling "Rooftop of Kyoto" Ridge Road Gravel Grind
Jun	24	Unintended Gravel Adventure with Gorm
Jun	20	Cycling to Nagoya for Coffee
Jun	12	A Visit to Kyoto's Northern Mountains, This Time By Car
Jun	9	Half-Hearted Welcome For Gorm's Return to Kyoto
Jun	4	My First Climb up Kobe's Mt. Rokko
May 2016
May	31	My Day of Many Flats
May	30	NORU Group Ride and a Visit to Hiyoshi Dam
May	29	Revisiting Last Year's Young-Adult Archery Ceremony
May	23	My Better-than-Standard Cycling-Toward-Osaka Route out of Kyoto
May	20	Getting Back in the Saddle with a Challenging Ride
May	14	Back In Japan After Three Months Away
April 2016
Apr	15	Yahoo! Requires a Dancing Pony to Open a New Account, but I Don't Have a Dancing Pony
Apr	9	Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Apr	4	Poking Around Miyajima Island and its Daisho-in Temple
March 2016
Mar	17	Looking for a US-Based Phone Number for my Japanese iPhone
Mar	14	30 Pounds of Microsoft Office
Mar	4	Feeding the Bluebirds
February 2016
Feb	24	The Frustrating Fallacy of "Next Day Air"
Feb	24	Snowy Ohio Morning, Take 2 (Part 2)
Feb	22	The Fix for Missing Apps After an iPhone Restore from Backup
Feb	22	A Fix for Apple Watch Apps Not Showing Up
Feb	21	Snowy Ohio Morning, Take 2
Feb	17	A Warmer Version of That "Warm" House Photo
Feb	16	Kyoto Cyclocross Bicycle Race: Final Roundup
Feb	14	Snowy Frigid Ohio Morning
Feb	7	Falling in the Mud: A Cyclocratic Medaphore for Life
Feb	5	Muddy Kyoto Cylocross: The First Two Races
Feb	2	Cyclocross Races: Practice at the Mud Bath
Feb	1	New Lightroom Plugin: "Bag-o-Goodies" Collection of Tools
January 2016
Jan	31	Watching My First Cyclocross Bike Race
Jan	19	More Details on the Insidious iOS Snap-to-Road "Feature"
Jan	10	Great Excitement in Small Pleasures: A Starbucks Opens Nearby
Jan	5	Lightroom Resource Utilization: On Setting Up a Machine for Lightroom Usage
Jan	4	Lazy New-Year Break and Reflections on Last Year's Cycling

December 2015
Dec	26	Cycling with Kentaro Kataoka on His First "Real" Ride
Dec	26	Photos Appearing in 2015
Dec	22	Surprises With New Caledonia Traffic Signs
Dec	20	Superficial Thoughts on New Caledonia After a Week's Visit
Dec	17	A Hint For the Bicycle-Sign "What am I?" Quiz
Dec	15	A New Caledonia No-Bikes-Allowed "What am I?" Quiz
Dec	12	A Bit of Cycling in Nouméa, New Caledonia
Dec	12	Returning from Lunch, New-Caledonia Style
Dec	10	Deep Into New Caledonia's South Province
Dec	9	Visiting New Caledonia
Dec	4	Revisiting Fall Colors: Kyoto Mountain Cycling Two Weeks Ago
Dec	3	The Scourge (or Beauty) of "Snap To Road" with iPhone Location-Tracking Apps
November 2015
Nov	29	Bicycle Ride to Osaka with Paul Barr
Nov	28	A Past-Its-Prime Visit to Kyoto's Ochiba Shrine
Nov	27	Confused Kyoto Cherry Trees Bloom Five Months Early
Nov	26	Cycling to Kyoto's Ochiba Shrine Amid the Fall Colors
Nov	25	Flat, Windless Trip to Osaka; Blustery, Hilly Trip Back
Nov	18	Wigglegram of a Pleasant Couple Among the Fall Colors at Kyoto's Enkoji Temple
Nov	17	Paul Barr in Kyoto Day 1: the Tenjuan Temple (Fall Colors and a Wigglegram)
Nov	15	Mini Review: Skilhunt H02R Head Mounted Flashlight, For Cycling after Dark
Nov	13	Great Day in Kyoto's Colorful Northern Mountains, and at Strava's Kyoto Office
Nov	8	Social Ride Among Kyoto's Fall Colors
Nov	6	A Heatmap of All My Cycling In and Around Kyoto
October 2015
Oct	28	Bridget and Sarah's Tour-de-Kyoto, Stage 2
Oct	20	The New Bike Is Fast; I'm Just Going Along For The Ride
Oct	18	Last Month’s Particularly Epic Cycling Adventure, Part 2
Oct	16	Last Month's Particularly Epic Cycling Adventure, Part 1
Oct	15	A Visit With Rick and Lily Hancock
Oct	10	My "Metadata Wrangler" Plugin for Lightroom Can Now Add/Overwrite Metadata
Oct	9	Yuba Lunch in Kyoto with Jim Breen
Oct	8	Touring the Countryside of Otsu City with its Mayor
Oct	4	So, I Finally Bought a Road Bike
September 2015
Sep	24	Bridget and Sarah’s Tour-de-Kyoto, Part 3
Sep	21	Comfy British Cycling Shirts in Japan at NORU
Sep	21	Fumie's "Swanilda" Tutu
Sep	20	Update On My Fear and Trepidation of Cycling Clipped In: It's Mostly Gone
Sep	19	Photoshop Calendar Templates for 2016 (through 2020)
Sep	17	Bridget and Sarah's Tour-de-Kyoto, Part 2
Sep	16	Epic Preview of an Epic Cycling Adventure with Andy and Nigel
Sep	15	Cycling with Manu and Manseki to Osaka Castle and Back
Sep	14	Mini Review: Axgio Bluetooth Wireless Sports Headphones
Sep	13	Bridget and Sarah's Tour-de-Kyoto, Part 1
Sep	9	Visiting Horseshoe Bend in Arizona
Sep	8	Scoping Out Portraiture Locations with Eric and Gigi at the Kiyomizu Temple
Sep	3	Riding Clipped In: Baptism By Fire, But Feeling Well Satisfied
Sep	1	Gave The Cycling Shoes a Try; Wasn't So Bad
August 2015
Aug	31	Trepidation and Anticipation: Moving Up to Cycling Shoes
Aug	26	Heading Into Antelope Canyon
Aug	24	Ping Pong Rematch Against Vernon!
Aug	22	I Played Ping Pong with a 91-Year-Old, and Almost Didn't Lose
Aug	19	A Hazy Visit to Onyu Pass with Arthur and Neil
Aug	17	Delight and Dismay at the Apple Store
Aug	10	Bike-Fitting Session at Vincent Flanagan's PedalForth Fitting in Kyoto
Aug	3	Morning Calm at Kyoto's Hirosawa Lake
July 2015
Jul	30	The Solemn Uniqueness of Kyoto's Kuginuki Jizo Temple
Jul	25	Obama Hosts My First Bicycle Visit to the Sea
Jul	17	My First Ascent of The Most-Heinous Momoi Pass East
Jul	11	Riding Kyoto's "Heart Loop" With Friends
Jul	6	Bicycle Ride Around Japan’s Largest Lake, Part 2
Jul	4	That Kyoto Temple With the Many Whimsical Statues
June 2015
Jun	29	Many Lessons Learned on Yesterday's Group Ride
Jun	26	Cycling Along the River from Kyoto To Osaka Castle
Jun	25	Manseki on the Attack: Serendipitous Camera Mistake
Jun	19	Cycling to Miyama with Gorm
Jun	18	Fixing a Fuzzy Viewfinder on a Panasonic LX100
Jun	16	Informal Camera Comparison: Panasonic LX100 vs. Nikon D4
Jun	14	Bicycle Ride Around Japan's Largest Lake, Part 1
Jun	5	Conquering Kyoto's Seryo Pass with Manu Mohan
Jun	4	Miyama Cycling Tour with Joshua and Manseki, Part 2
Jun	1	Miyama Cycling Tour with Joshua and Manseki, Part 1
May 2015
May	30	Happy Birthday To Me: Reviews of Some Toys I've Recently Gotten
May	28	A Day of Vertical-Climb Cycling Torture in Western Kyoto
May	25	Kyoto's Nasty 21% City-Bike Hill Climb
May	22	Photo-Development Challenge Results #2: Statues
May	20	Discovering Kyoto's Wonderful Toji-in Temple on a Tour with NORU
May	20	Looking for Modern Bifocal Sunglasses....
May	19	Little Surprises on a 500-Yen Coin
May	18	Architectural Details at the Kyoto Imperial Palace
May	16	Shocking Discovery at the Top of a Kyoto Mountain
May	15	More GPS Cycling Tests: Things are Pretty Bad and There's Little Hope
May	13	Visiting Kyoto's Fushimi Inari Shrine with Matt Campagna and a Super-Wide-Angle Lens
May	12	Gray View of Kyoto from Mt. Otowayama
May	9	The Voodoo of Elevation Gain and Strava (and How I Get Around It)
May	2	Awesome Cycle Outing: Revisiting My First Real Mountain Ride
April 2015
Apr	30	Automatic Face Tagging Now Supported in my Upload-to-Facebook Plugin for Lightroom
Apr	29	Coffee at Cowbell: Short but Intense Bike Ride in Northern Kyoto
Apr	26	Potential Privacy Issue with Lightroom CC/6 and People Keywords
Apr	26	Pleasant 105km Bike Ride From Kyoto, Along Lake Biwa, to Takashima's Shirohige Shrine
Apr	23	Matt Campagna Wigglegrams Kyoto
Apr	22	My Thoughts on Lightroom 6
Apr	19	Highly-Visible Cycle Ride Though the Mountains of Northern Kyoto
Apr	19	A "Flowers Among the Flowers" Wigglegram at Kyoto's Haradanien Garden
Apr	17	Lunch in a Small Mountain Farming Hamlet in Japan
Apr	12	Making Tofu in Japan with an 80-Year-Old Farmer's Wife
Apr	12	Photoshoot with Ting Ting at the Murin'an Gardens
Apr	10	A Soft Not-Foam-Filling "What am I?" Quiz
Apr	9	Photoshoot at the Peak of the Haradanien Garden's Awesomeness
Apr	5	Soggy Blossoms in Kyoto
Apr	1	Happy 10th Anniversary to My Blog
Apr	1	Back in Kyoto (Spring 2015 Edition)
March 2015
Mar	29	Ohio Amish Farm
Mar	25	Vacation Update: Crossing the Rockies
Mar	23	Vacation Update: Bryce Canyon Hike
Mar	22	Vacation Update: Bryce Canyon National Park
Mar	21	Vacation Update: Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend
Mar	20	Vacation Update: Grand Canyon
Mar	19	Vacation Update: Vegas to Williams
Mar	17	Vacation Going Well... Just No Time to Write...
Mar	11	A Crazy Couple of Days in Silicon Valley
Mar	7	Anthony Graduates from Elementary School
Mar	7	Photo-Development Challenge Results #1: Hillside Temple Buildings
Mar	5	Another Nice (Tough!) Bicycle Ride in the Mountains Around Kyoto
Mar	3	A Bicycle Ride to the Kuuya-taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto with Manseki Kanemitsu
February 2015
Feb	27	Performing Minor Surgery on a Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 Zoom Lens
Feb	26	Thoughts on the Venus/Laowa 60mm f/2.8 Super-Macro Lens
Feb	24	An Otherworldly "What am I?" Quiz
Feb	22	Photo-Development Challenge: Inspire Me and Others With Your Artistic Interpretation
Feb	21	Filming a TV Segment about Mochi and Shiga
Feb	19	Facebook Engineering Opens a Satellite Office in Kyoto (For a Few Hours)
Feb	15	2015 Kyoto Marathon
Feb	14	A Dark, Striated "What am I?" Quiz
Feb	13	Fantastic Video for Photographers: Get Inspired From Stu Maschwitz's Artistic/Lightroom Agility
Feb	11	Attempting a 100km Bike Ride in the Mountains of Kyoto, Part 2: The Last 70km
Feb	9	Attempting a 100km Bike Ride in the Mountains of Kyoto, Part 1: Hanase Pass
Feb	3	Shopping in Kyoto: Gigi and Eric Buy a Kimono
January 2015
Jan	30	Unexpectedly Snowy Photoshoot at the Joshokoji Temple
Jan	26	New Lightroom Plugin: People Support
Jan	25	Exploring The Mountains of Northern Kyoto by Bicycle
Jan	18	The 2015 Young-Adult Archery Event at the Sanjusangendo Temple
Jan	17	Inside the "New" Temple Building at Shogunzuka Overlooking Kyoto
Jan	12	Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow, Part 3
Jan	6	Advice for an Across-the-USA RV Trip?
Jan	3	Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow, Part 2
Jan	3	Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow
Jan	2	More From That Big New-Year's-Day Snow in Kyoto
Jan	2	Kyoto's Biggest Snow in 58 Years
Jan	1	Silly Family Photoshoot for the New Year

December 2014
Dec	31	Andrei Zmievski Wigglegrams Kyoto
Dec	31	Photos Appearing in 2014
Dec	28	New Views of Kyoto from Shogunzuka's New Observation Deck
Dec	24	Quality Time Among the Fall Colors
Dec	19	The Building at the Main Garden of the Kongorinji Temple
Dec	15	The Art and Science (and Complex Frustrations) of Creating my Wigglegrams
Dec	12	Slightly Queasy Wigglegram
Dec	11	A Deep, Dark "What am I?" Quiz
Dec	8	Inside The Shodensanso Villa, Part 1
Dec	3	A Quick Peek at Kyoto's Hanadera Temple
Dec	1	Smooshed Glasses as a Psychological Indicator
November 2014
Nov	29	Photographer Introspection Amidst the Serenity at Kyoto's Rurikoin Temple
Nov	27	Catching a Selfie Among the Fall Colors
Nov	26	Approaching the Shodensanso Villa
Nov	23	Oppressive Crowds at the Shodensanso Villa in South-Eastern Kyoto
Nov	22	An Among-the-Fall-Colors "What am I?" Quiz
Nov	19	Autumn 2014 Trip to Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Shrine, Part 2
Nov	19	Learning Japanese Slang For Ridiculously Large Portions, at Restaurant Kasuga in South-Western Kyoto
Nov	18	The Whole Gamut of My Blog In One Spectacular Visit to the Yoshiminedera Temple
Nov	15	Boat at Kyoto's Shugakuin Imperial Palace
Nov	12	My First Fall-Foliage Outing for 2014: Temples in the Takao Area of Kyoto
Nov	10	A Few Photos From The Start of a Visit to the Kyoto Imperial Palace
Nov	6	Huge Main Gate at Kyoto's Chion'in Temple Now Shrouded in Scaffolding
Nov	6	A Wigglegram of Three Lovely Ladies in Kimono at the Kyoto Imperial Palace
Nov	4	How To Keep a Japanese Washing Machine Clean
October 2014
Oct	31	Rediscovering the Chion'in Temple, Part 2
Oct	30	Rediscovering Kyoto's Chion'in Temple via a Short Mountain Hike
Oct	25	Oodles of Cheerful Little Men at the Sekisanzen-in Temple in North-East Kyoto
Oct	24	Entrance to Kyoto's Jojuji Temple at its Fall Best
Oct	20	Teppanyaki Lunch at The Garden Okazaki in Eastern Kyoto
Oct	20	Fixing Lightroom Problems Caused by the POODLE Security Vulnerability
Oct	16	Odd Things in Western Kyoto
Oct	15	Finding a Rainy 25-Year-Old Memory on Miyajima Island
Oct	13	Colorful Precipitation Radar Five Hours Before the Typhoon
Oct	13	Bland Pre-Typhoon Views of the Sky from Kyoto to Hiroshima, at 300kph
Oct	12	Pre-Typhoon Low-Tide View of the Itsukushima Shrine Gate at Sunset
Oct	9	A Black-on-Black "What am I?" Quiz
Oct	6	Populating The Drive Bays of a Synology NAS Unit: Lessons Learned
Oct	2	A Really Gross Discovery On The Way Into an Otherwise Beautiful Temple
Oct	1	What I Learned on My Personal-Best Mt. Hiei Climb #6 (just how stupid I am)
September 2014
Sep	28	That Imperial Bridge, Funkified in Lightroom
Sep	27	Back in the Saddle With Another Mt. Hiei Climb (and Thoughts on Under Armour Clothes and Stock)
Sep	24	Revisiting a Graveyard of Abandoned Temple Monuments in the Mountains of Kyoto
Sep	22	An Autumn Visit to the Sento Imperial Palace in Kyoto
Sep	20	Filling the Time Between Imperial Villas
Sep	17	Revisiting Kyoto’s Fall Colors: Shugakuin Imperial Villa Last November (Part 2)
Sep	15	My Best (and Last) Score in the 2048 Game: 76,936
Sep	13	Celebrating the End of My Cold With Some Pretty Photos From 2008
Sep	6	Gargoyle-Tile Workshop Visit Part 2: Crafting the Clay
Sep	5	Gargoyle-Tile Workshop Visit Part 1: Factory Tour
Sep	1	A Fork-Like "What am I?" Quiz
August 2014
Aug	31	Tasty Yakiniku Near Kyoto: Hieidaira's Nanzan
Aug	29	A Day with Sergey Kolychev in Kyoto
Aug	24	Sand Sculptures at Kyoto's Silver Pavilion Temple
Aug	22	Testing a Couple of Watches: Stührling and Citizen
Aug	19	Sigh, Lost All Email For the Last Day
Aug	18	Back in Kyoto (with some Cousin-Play Pics from Ohio)
Aug	11	Ohio-Trip Roundup: Misc Fun Photos
Aug	10	More Summer-Trip Fun: Zipline in the Backyard
Aug	10	Boatride in Ohio: Two Photos of Each Kid, and One of each Pair
Aug	9	Visit to Milwaukee, Day 2
Aug	8	Visit To Milwaukee, Day 1
Aug	5	A Pointy "What am I?" Quiz
July 2014
Jul	30	Trampoline Dodgeball
Jul	26	Too Good To Be True: a United Airlines Flight That Almost Went Smoothly
Jul	20	Rich Wood Views Inside Kyoto's Zuishin Temple
Jul	10	Invicta Watches: Lowering the Average I.Q. of Humanity One Watch at a Time
Jul	7	Photo Shoot with Alice Gordenker in Kyoto
June 2014
Jun	27	A Few More Off-Season Spring Blossoms
Jun	26	Lightroom Catalog Maintenance: Clearing Out Edit History For Potential Performance Gains
Jun	23	Revisiting Kyoto's Fall Colors: Shugakuin Imperial Villa Last November
Jun	19	Milestones: Twenty Five Years Since First Coming to Japan, and More
Jun	16	Unearthly Steak in Japan at Awaji Island's "Beefland Prince"
Jun	13	Okay Views From Kyoto's Shogunzua's Overlook Today
Jun	12	Screw It, I Did My Next Annual Mt. Hiei Hike 51 Weeks Early
Jun	8	My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2014, Part 2
Jun	1	My Brother Just Finished a 55-mile UltraMarathon!
Jun	1	My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2014, Part 1
May 2014
May	29	The Mountain Claims a Sign, But Doesn't Claim Me
May	28	Lunch Report: Exquisite Teppanyaki Steak at the Kyoto Brighton Hotel
May	23	The Lazy Photographer: Exposing for Single-Shot HDR (Sort Of)
May	22	Heian Shrine Gate From a New Perspective
May	19	Kendo Masters Tournament in Kyoto, Part 2
May	18	My First Look at Kendo: Masters Tournament in Kyoto
May	14	Obeisance To Tradition
May	8	Mini Rant: Disappointed in Netflix Video Streaming
May	7	The Thrill of Japan's Biggest Waterwheel
May	5	In Case You Weren't Fully Aware of Just How Stupid I Am...
May	2	Dark, Brooding Camellia
April 2014
Apr	26	Not Recommended: Best Western Newcity Hirosaki (Hirosaki, Japan)
Apr	25	Just a Lighting Test Shot, but it Looks like an Advertisement
Apr	24	Shirahama Trip Day 2: Adventure World
Apr	20	Weekend in Shirahama, Japan: Day 1
Apr	17	Quick Update: Visit To Shirahama, a Minor Heart Arrhythmia, and the End of Lent
Apr	8	A Few Cold/Blustery/Rainy Cherry-Blossom Pics from Southern Kyoto
Apr	4	Controlling Exercise Sweat in a Hot Climate: Under Armour HeatGear Sonic Compression Long-Sleeve
March 2014
Mar	31	Photoshoot with Ikuko Among the Plum Blossoms, Part 2
Mar	30	Modern Progress: Japan's First Utility Wires Coming Down After 120 Years
Mar	28	Photoshoot with Ikuko Among the Plum Blossoms, Part 1
Mar	27	One From Yesterday's Portraiture Session
Mar	20	Finally Inside the House at the Seifuso Villa in Kyoto
Mar	17	Scenes from the 2014 Kyoto Higashiyama Lightup
Mar	16	A Few from the Plum Blossom Orchard at the Kyoto Imperial Palace Park
Mar	15	A Red, Squiggly, Fairly Blotchy "What am I?" Quiz
Mar	13	"Photographer-World Problems": Renewing a Passport
Mar	10	Inside the Roof of Kyoto's Chion’in Temple
Mar	7	Heading Up To See The Naked Roof of Kyoto's Chion'in Temple
Mar	4	Plum Blossoms are Coming in in Kyoto
February 2014
Feb	28	A Few Desktop Backgrounds from the Delightfully Whimsical Otaginenbutsuji Temple in Northwestern Kyoto
Feb	23	The Many Lanterns and Overwhelming Sumptuousness of the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
Feb	22	Kyoto Plum-Blossom Preview: Scenes From a Year Ago Today
Feb	20	Congrats to Jan and Brian: From Zero to $19 Billion in Five Years
Feb	19	Huge Main Gate of Kyoto's Chion'in Temple
Feb	18	From the Garden to the House at the Seifuso Villa
Feb	12	It's All About the Big Lens: Garnering Attention at the Kyoto City Marathon
Feb	9	An Apprentice-Geisha Photoshoot Quite Unlike Any Other
Feb	8	Making the Best of Lackluster Snow in Kyoto by Heading North
Feb	4	Ugh! Recovering From the Accidental Deletion of an Important iPhone App
Feb	4	Environmental Portraits in the Gion Entertainment District of Kyoto
January 2014
Jan	31	On the Approach to the Todaiji Temple in Nara
Jan	30	A Couple of Mini Bluetooth Reviews: Braven 710 Speaker and Mpow Sport Headphones
Jan	28	Sipping Sake and Seeing Silly Signs: Visiting Kyoto's Sake-Brewing Area
Jan	25	A Woven(ish) "What am I?" Quiz
Jan	23	Continuing with the Seifuso Villa: Between the Tea House and the Garden
Jan	20	A Few Close-Ups of a Wasp's Nest
Jan	15	Finally Back in Kyoto, January 2014 Edition
Jan	14	Halfway Home: Overnighting in San Francisco
Jan	12	A Textured, Layered "What am I?" Quiz
Jan	12	To No One's Surprise, United Blames My Non-Weather Cancellations on Weather
Jan	11	More Frost Patterns from Arctic Ohio
Jan	11	Continuing Saga of My Return to Japan: Flight Canceled Again
Jan	10	Frozen Lake Play from Last Year
Jan	9	Pretty Frost Pattern on a Window
Jan	8	Finally Got My Return Flight Rescheduled
Jan	7	Freezing Bird Movement with a Fast Shutter (and Arctic Temperatures)
Jan	6	Doh! Got to the Airport a Day Early to Find my Flight Delayed Four Days.
Jan	6	Bunch of Goldfinches, Google "Auto Awesome" Version
Jan	5	Anthony Catching Air on a Snow Sled
Jan	5	A Day Of Snow Play for Cousin Felicity
Jan	3	Fun Day of Snow Play, Snowflake Photography, and Birds
Jan	2	Flight from Kyoto to Ohio, Winter 2013 Edition
Jan	2	Goldfinches in a Light Snow

December 2013
Dec	28	Photos of Farming in Japan for Captain Bill
Dec	28	Photos Appearing in 2013
Dec	26	Recovering from an OSX Format of your Garmin Device
Dec	25	Holy Cow, iOS 7 Has Some Really Horrible Design
Dec	23	Recommended: Osaka Airterminal Hotel
Dec	18	Thank You Skype for Not Sucking, and For Saving my Afternoon
Dec	9	Geometric Views from the Miho Museum
Dec	6	Visiting the Miho Museum an Hour out of Kyoto
Dec	4	My Forgetfulness is Getting Worse: Forgot the Whole Camera This Time
November 2013
Nov	29	Not a Good Day for Photography in the Friedl Household
Nov	28	Approaching the Tea House at Kyoto's Seifuso Villa
Nov	25	A Temple with Extra Restrictions on Photography is Now My Favorite Kyoto Temple
Nov	24	Fall Foliage at Kyoto Arashiyama's Hokyo-in Temple (with a wigglegram)
Nov	23	This Season's First Fall-Foliage Outing in Kyoto: Northern Arahiyama
Nov	22	Entrance Foyer to the Seifuso Villa in Kyoto
Nov	21	A Simple "What am I?" Quiz with a "Why am I?" Addendum
Nov	16	The Photogenic Kintai Bridge in Iwakuni Japan
Nov	13	The Most Important Rule to Follow When Giving a Presentation or Teaching a Workshop
Nov	13	iPad Photography: This Guy is Doing it Right
Nov	11	Why Does Photography with an iPad Look so Silly?
Nov	10	Well, At Least There Were Crows
Nov	9	Lr5.3RC Fixes That Ugly Publish Bug (I think)
Nov	8	The Hope Imbued in a Dull Sunset
Nov	5	Hand-Picked (Hand-Grilled) Mushrooms in Japan, and a Tarzan Rope
Nov	3	Sliding Down a Mountain Slide, In Style
October 2013
Oct	30	Setting a Custom Search Engine in Firefox
Oct	28	The Richness of Miyajima's Itsukushima Shrine at Dusk
Oct	25	Possible Workaround for that Nasty Lightroom Publish/Selection Bug
Oct	22	Canopy of Bamboo
Oct	22	Getting Back Out with the Camera a Bit
Oct	16	Worst Typhoon Since Godzilla About To Strike Into The Heart of Tokyo!!
Oct	14	Flower-Arranging Show at the Shouren'in Temple, 2013
Oct	11	The Joy of a Fast Photo Proximity Search in Lightroom
Oct	3	Random Shots from a Kyoto Countryside Tour
September 2013
Sep	23	Lightroom Plugin Update #2,800
Sep	22	Pretty Little Pink Flowers
Sep	16	A Bit More Rain in Kyoto Than Normal
Sep	11	Thanks To Apple, Those Hard Times are Behind Us Now
Sep	11	New Lightroom Plugin: Smart-Preview Support
Sep	9	Revisiting the Ryouanji Temple's Cherry-Blossom Garden
Sep	5	Another Festival of Läkerol Licorice Goodness
Sep	4	A Visit to the Jikkouin Temple in Rural Kyoto
Sep	3	Another "Tea and Sweets in Front of a Temple Garden" Shot (or 10)
August 2013
Aug	28	The Effect of a Polarization Filter on Wet Rocks, Etc.
Aug	25	Views at the Honen'in Temple in Eastern Kyoto
Aug	24	Entrance Path to Kyoto's Honen'in Temple
Aug	21	A Bunch of Old Men Hitting Baseballs With a Little-Kid Bat
Aug	19	Back in Kyoto Following an Uneventful Flight
Aug	12	Don't Use "Guest" WiFi Hotspots for Local Multiplayer Minecraft
Aug	11	Kicking Around a Soccer Ball with Anthony and his Cousin Josh
Aug	11	More Airline Fun: the Impressive Price for Checking In Just a Bit Too Slowly
Aug	4	Tasty: 14 Hands Cabernet Sauvignon
Aug	3	Slice of Americana: Anthony's Cousin is Bat Boy at a Local Baseball Game
Aug	2	Oops, I Was Wrong: Lr5.2 Beta Does NOT Fix That Nasty Publish Bug )-:
Aug	1	Lightroom 5.2 (beta) Fixes That Nasty Publish Bug
July 2013
Jul	31	Pleased with Online Shoe Retailer Zappos.com
Jul	26	A (Slightly) Better Aperture-Comparison Presentation
Jul	25	More Shots from Last Month's Visit to Kyoto's Heian Shrine
Jul	22	Giving Dropbox Competitor "Copy" a Try
Jul	21	The Effects of Aperture on a Subtle, Tranquil Cluster of Cherry Blossoms
Jul	21	New Lightroom Plugin: Export to ipernity
Jul	17	Subtle · Pastel · Tranquil
Jul	13	Hiking From Kyoto's Kuuya-Taki Waterfall to the Tsukinowa-Dera Temple
Jul	11	Photo Workflow: Lightroom Sometimes Deletes More Than You Ask, But This Plugin Can Help
Jul	7	The Effect of Shutter Speed on the Appearance of Flowing Water
Jul	5	A Drenched Visit to the Kuuya-Taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto
Jul	1	Hoverfly and Hydrangea
June 2013
Jun	25	Photoshoot with Yuko at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, Part 4
Jun	23	Photoshoot with Yuko at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, Part 3
Jun	20	Photoshoot with Yuko at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, Part 2
Jun	18	Anatomy of a Photoshoot by Someone Who Has No Clue About Them: Yuko at the Fushimi Inari Shrine
Jun	15	Quick Portrait: Zak Braverman in a Coffee Shop
Jun	12	An Update on the Lightroom 5 Publish Grid Bug
Jun	12	Experimenting with Depth of Field: Interactive Scene of Towering Bamboo
Jun	10	Lightroom 5 has been Released, but it comes with an Important Warning
Jun	9	One Meal in Nagasaki: Shippoku Cuisine at Hamamatsu
Jun	6	Quick Trip to Nagasaki
May 2013
May	30	Kyoto's Aoi Matsuri Festival, Part 3
May	29	My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2013, Part 3
May	27	My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2013, Part 2
May	26	My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2013, Part 1
May	19	Kyoto's Aoi Matsuri Festival, Part 2
May	18	Quick Peek from Kyoto's Aoi Matsuri
May	12	Last Year's Kurama Fire Festival
May	7	Kyoto's Amazing Haradanien Garden, Part 4
May	6	Kyoto's Amazing Haradanien Garden, Part 3
May	2	Kyoto's Amazing Haradanien Garden, Part 2
April 2013
Apr	30	"Hot Yoga"
Apr	26	Bento for a Big Boy
Apr	25	"Idiot for Noodles", Kyoto Ramen You Won't Forget
Apr	25	Dinner at Kyoto's "Kiev" Restaurant: Highly Recommended
Apr	20	Kyoto's Amazing Haradanien Garden, Part 1
Apr	19	Photo Shoot at Kyoto's Haradanien Garden: John and Ai
Apr	16	Lightroom 5 Public Beta
Apr	15	Subtle Pastel Blossoms at Kyoto's Haradanien Garden
Apr	14	A Wigglegram from Kyoto's Stunning Haradanien Forest Garden of Blossoms
Apr	9	Cherry Blossoms at Kyoto's Ryouanji Temple, Part 1
Apr	6	Weeping Cherry at Kyoto's Ryouanji Temple
Apr	2	More Dynamic Views of Kyoto From Shogunzuka
Apr	2	More Folks Enjoying Spring Blossoms, Via 300mm @ f/2
Apr	1	Temple Hopping with Katrin: Kiyomizu Temple and its Environs
March 2013
Mar	31	Enjoying the Blossoms at the Kyoto Imperial Palace Park
Mar	29	Impromptu Kimono Photo Shoot Near the Kiyomizu Temple
Mar	27	New Lightroom Plugin: Exporter to Google Drive
Mar	27	Temple Hopping in Kyoto with Katrin Philippar
Mar	26	More Early Cherry Blossoms along the Kamo River
Mar	25	Early Cherry Blossoms along Kyoto's Kamogawa River
Mar	18	The Buds and Blossoms are Just Peachy at the Kyoto Imperial Palace
Mar	18	More Japanese-Garden Desktop Backgrounds from Kyoto's Enkoji Temple
Mar	13	Plum Blossoms in Full Bloom at Kyoto's Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
Mar	10	The Gorgeous Enkouji Temple of North-East Kyoto
Mar	7	Yet More Early Plum at Kyoto's Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
Mar	4	New-Year Trip Recap: East Finally Meets West
Mar	2	Priceless: Candy and Pottery in a Surprisingly Tasteful Display
February 2013
Feb	28	Hosen-in Temple Roundup: To and Fro
Feb	27	Cute Snaps: Birds Lined Up
Feb	25	More Budding Plum From the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
Feb	24	Plum Orchard at the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine: Not Quite Prime Time
Feb	22	Plum is Starting to Blossom in Kyoto
Feb	19	My First Visit To Kyoto's Shugakuin Imperial Villa
Feb	17	Elementary-School Water Polo
Feb	16	Kyoto's Housen-in Temple Part 3: Rock Garden Desktop Backgrounds
Feb	14	Candid Portrait of an Athlete
Feb	14	Kyoto's Housen-in Temple, Part 2
Feb	13	A Few Better Pics of Anthony
Feb	12	Slice of Kid Heaven: Pick-a-Brick at a LEGO Store
Feb	11	First Visit to Kyoto's Housen-in Temple
Feb	9	Nishimura Stone Carvers in a Light Snow
Feb	9	The Colossal Battle of Pageviews: xkcd vs. Reddit
Feb	8	Views of Kyoto From Shogunzuka Over The Years
Feb	7	Visiting My Photo Archives: Random Pretty Shots #1
Feb	5	Cherry Blossoms in November: Looking Back to Autumn To Get Ready For Spring
Feb	5	Disappointed in Fstoppers.com: Wholesale Copyright Infringement as a Business Model
Feb	3	Impossible Shot at Kyoto's Enkoji Temple: Garden *and* Garden-Viewing Room at the Height of Fall Colors, Devoid of People
Feb	2	More From November's Visit to Kyoto's Tenjyuan Garden
January 2013
Jan	29	Revisiting Flower Arrangements at the Shoren'in Temple
Jan	26	Portraiture Practice: Ray (and Jill)
Jan	26	In Kyoto and Want to Get Rid Of Stuff? Call This Guy.
Jan	26	More Thin Depth Of Field: Retrospective on My First Months with a 300mm f/2
Jan	23	Thin on the Depth of Field, Thick on the Cuteness
Jan	22	Suntory Yamazaki Distillery Photogenic "Whisky Museum"
Jan	20	Kyoto's Souren-ji Temple at f/1.2
Jan	20	Cherry Blossoms in a Sticky Situation
Jan	19	Revisiting December's Arashiyama Outing: Dynamic Vistas and the Suzumushidera Temple
Jan	17	That Massive Column in Nara's Todaiji Temple Is Nothing To Sneeze At
Jan	15	Super-Impromptu Portrait: Aeron in Nara
Jan	15	Japanese Candles, Followup
Jan	14	Elementary-School Shoe Rack
Jan	13	Massive Support Column at Nara's Todai-ji Temple
Jan	11	Cornucopia of Tasty Läkerol Licorice
Jan	10	Japanese Candles
Jan	8	The Mysteries of Jetlag
Jan	4	Snow Play

December 2012
Dec	31	Today's Rant: United Airlines Thinks Flights Arrive Before They Leave, and Other Ways United Shows Disregard For Their Customers
Dec	31	Photos Appearing in 2012
Dec	30	Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo Forest Lightup, Part Three
Dec	26	Seriously Unimpressed with GoPro's Pathetic User Experience
Dec	25	Thank You Anonymous Hero at Chicago O'Hare's Gate E2a
Dec	21	Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo Forest Lightup, Part Two
Dec	19	One Last Portraiture-Practice Post for the Year
Dec	18	Something Peaceful After a Long Day
Dec	12	A Few From Kyoto's Shisendo Temple Last Month
Dec	11	More Portraiture Practice: I Shoot Paul Barr
Dec	11	Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo Forest Lightup
Dec	10	A Curved-Wire "What am I?" Quiz
Dec	7	A Few Non-Fall-Foliage Pretty Pictures For a Change
Dec	6	Portraiture Practice: Paul Barr Shoots Me
Dec	5	Creamy At f/0.95
Dec	5	Pretty and Colorful Public Path in Arashiyama
Dec	4	A Few More Shots of That Amazing Kyoto Rainbow on Saturday
Dec	4	A Long But Photogenic November in Kyoto
Dec	1	Intense Rainbow Over Arashiyama
November 2012
Nov	30	A Post For Damien Douxchamps' Parents in Belgium
Nov	30	A Wigglegram from the Well-Named "Fallen Leaf Shrine" in Northern Kyoto
Nov	28	Tea and Sweets Among the Fall Colors at Kyoto's Daihyouin Temple
Nov	27	A Quick f/1.2 + f/5.6 Pair from the Sourenji Temple
Nov	26	A Few Pretty Pictures from Kyoto's Middle-of-Nowhere Sourenji Temple
Nov	26	Kyoto's Road to Somewhere
Nov	25	That Amazing Entrance Path of Kyoto Koutouin Temple
Nov	23	Another Pair of Lovely Ladies in Kimono, Another Wigglegram
Nov	21	Elegance in Kyoto's Tenjyuan Garden
Nov	21	My Camera is Exhausted
Nov	21	Beyond Shouzan's Main Garden (Including a Wigglegram)
Nov	20	Solution To Time-Machine Failures After Having Replaced a Symbolic Link with an Actual Directory
Nov	19	A Few More Initial Wigglegram Attempts
Nov	17	A "Wigglegram" From The Garden at Kyoto's Shouzan Resort
Nov	17	A Somewhat Lackluster Day of Photography at Kyoto's Shouzan Resort
Nov	16	Portrait Practice Among the Fall Colors, with Paul Barr
Nov	15	Annoying or Interesting? "Special" Photos From the Iwato Ochiba Shrine
Nov	14	A Slightly Early Visit to Kyoto's "Fallen Leaf" Ochiba Shrine
Nov	13	Last Day on Naoshima
Nov	12	Uncountable Sorrows: Path of Statues Dedicated to Children who Passed Before Their Parents
Nov	12	A Few More General Shots from the Kongorinji Temple
Nov	9	Very Tiny Flowers Among the Moss at the Kongorinji Temple
Nov	8	Vertigo-Inducing Views in Google Maps (Sort Of)
Nov	7	Another Exhausting Day of Photography: Shiga Prefecture's Kongorinji Temple
Nov	5	Temple-Hopping with Damien Douxchamps: a Few Desktop Backgrounds from North-East Kyoto
Nov	3	A Bunch Of Over-Processed Desktop-Background Photos from Kyoto's Myouhouin Temple
Nov	2	Kyoto Fall Foliage 2012 Preview: A Few From Last Year
Nov	1	Kyoto Dinner Buffet Recommendation: Kyoto Royal Hotel
October 2012
Oct	31	Kyoto's Jidai Matsuri 2012, #2
Oct	29	Melting Willpower with the Melty Goodness of Matherz' Truffles
Oct	28	A Few Shots From Day Two at Benesse House
Oct	26	First Look at the Ultra Modern (as in "Modern Art") Benesse House Museum Hotel
Oct	26	Failing a New Portraiture Challenge: Reflective Pottery
Oct	23	My Approach to Shooting With Two Camera Bodies
Oct	22	Catching the Fringe of Two Famous Kyoto Festivals
Oct	19	More Pleasantness From The Shoren'in Temple Ikebana Event
Oct	19	New Lightroom Plugin "Data Explorer": Like the Grid Filter on Steroids
Oct	14	Cute and Colorful Scene at the Shoren'in Temple
Oct	10	Viewing Anthony's New Shoes with My New X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
Oct	10	New Lightroom Plugin: Export to Tumblr
Oct	10	Jeffrey's "Export to Tumblr" Lightroom Plugin
Oct	9	Serene Photos to Calm the Nerves
Oct	8	Quick One From Today: Busy Hallway at Kyoto's Shoren'in Temple
Oct	6	How Shooting Raw Saves Me (In This Case From a Fritzing Lens)
Oct	6	Putting Up With Amazon Japan's Delivery-Schedule Problems
Oct	6	Rich Rainbow Leaf
Oct	4	Low-Quality Photographic Lighting Has Me Seen Green
Oct	3	Picturesque Bridges Leading to the Nagaoka Tenmangu Shrine
September 2012
Sep	30	Revisiting Last Year's Nara Mountain Drive
Sep	28	More Portraiture Post Processing: Stéphane Barbery's Interpretations of That One Shot of Me
Sep	26	Portraiture Post-Processing in Lightroom: How Many Faces Can One Portrait Have?
Sep	25	New Lightroom Plugin #30-something-or-other: Creative Commons
Sep	25	Jeffrey's "Creative Commons" Lightroom Plugin
Sep	24	Pleasant Sunset in Kyoto This Evening
Sep	23	Cute Little Melodrama in Five Photos
Sep	22	Flowers for a Job Well Done
Sep	21	Razor Wire in Nagoya: Revisiting my Funky Lightroom Tone-Curve Presets for Lr4
Sep	20	Optical Illusion Above Nagoya Station
Sep	18	Portrature Practice Round Two, First Results
Sep	16	Really Annoying: Laptop Keyboard With a Few Bad Keys
Sep	12	A Few Fall-Foliage Desktops To Get In The Autumnal Mood
Sep	11	My "Mastering Regular Expressions" Book Makes a Cameo In a Very Strange Music Video
Sep	9	My Kyoto Summer: Another Rain Cloud, Another Beer/BBQ Feast
Sep	7	Angry Cloud over Kyoto
Sep	7	New Old Plugin: my Preview-Extraction Plugin Now Works in Lr4
Sep	6	Diary of Gluttonous Excess: Last Night's Visit to the Kyoto Avanshell BBQ Beer Garden
Sep	5	New Lightroom Plugin for Personal Workflow Tracking: Folder Status
Sep	2	Last Chance For the All-You-Can-Feast Beer/BBQ at the Hotel Avanshell Kyoto
August 2012
Aug	29	Tooting My Own Horn: eBook Version of "Mastering Regular Expressions" Half Off This Week
Aug	28	Pregnant Cloud Over Kyoto
Aug	22	My Idea of a Nice Evening: Pleasant Sunset and Delicious Chicken
Aug	20	Special Celebrations: My Mother-in-Law's 'Kanreki'
Aug	20	Another Look at a Dusky Orange Osaka Skyline from Kyoto
Aug	19	Daimonji Fire Festival Up Close and Personal: Yaron Silberberg's Photos from Last Year
Aug	17	Calling It Like I See It (But Do I See It Correctly?): Stippleit.com
Aug	16	Daimonji: Kyoto's Least-Photogenic Festival
Aug	15	Adding an Extra Half-Terabyte SSD to my MacBook Pro
Aug	14	On The Way Into Kyoto's Northern-Mountain Joshoko-ji Temple
Aug	13	Cooling Down at the Kuuya-taki Waterfall
Aug	11	Uniqlo Dry Color T: My New Summer Wardrobe
Aug	10	Brick of Cash
Aug	7	Anatomy of a Nice Kyoto Sunset
Aug	6	Norman Rockwell-esque Scene in Kyoto: Watching Curiosity Land on Mars
Aug	6	This Evening's Sunset in Kyoto
Aug	4	A Bendy-Line "What am I?" Quiz
Aug	3	McDonald's LEGO Scene
Aug	2	Water Lilies and other Botanical Highlights at the Kajuji Temple
Aug	1	Kyoto's Kajuji Temple In Summer: Alive
July 2012
Jul	31	A Few More from the Kajuji Temple in Winter
Jul	30	Kyoto's Kajuji Temple at its Most Bleak (is Still Very Nice)
Jul	29	Why Can't Nikon Do Software? A Rant About Nikon's Moronic Implementation of Focal-Length-Aware Auto ISO
Jul	27	Took My New Nikon D4 Out For A Spin At Night (Before Reading The Manual)
Jul	26	Going Max Cliché While Learning About Off-Camera Flash
Jul	24	Revisiting the Fall Foliage Behind Kyoto's Jingoji Temple
Jul	23	On The Way From The Kuuya-taki Waterfall
Jul	22	Beyond The Staircase Ruins at the Kuuya-taki Waterfall
Jul	21	A Few Snapshots From This Year's Gion Matsuri in Downtown Kyoto
Jul	19	Kyoto's Quasi-Annual Flash Flood
Jul	13	Impromptu Portraiture Practice: Bill in Kyoto
Jul	10	More From the Gioji Temple: Lotsa Moss and Bamboo
Jul	8	Finally Reaching the Kuuya-taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto
Jul	6	Interesting Bark Near the Kuuya-taki Waterfall
Jul	5	Nicolas Joannin and His Bugs
Jul	5	A Bit Of Blog Drama with PetaPixel and The Jerks at Gizmodo
Jul	4	Discovery On The Way to The Waterfall
Jul	2	A Few Desktop Backgrounds from the Shouseien Temple
Jul	1	Taking It Easy With Some Flowers From Kyoto's Gioji Temple
June 2012
Jun	29	Gioji Temple Photoshoot Continues: Little Orange Mushrooms and Depth-of-Field Comparisons
Jun	28	Pastel Fall Foliage, Courtesy of Lightroom and my Plugin Testing
Jun	27	First Peek at the Shouseien Temple in Downtown Kyoto
Jun	26	Prucia Plum Wine from France, and Some Dramatic Lighting, and Rolling-Stones Beer
Jun	25	Trying a Little Formal Portraiture, Round 1: Stéphane Barbery Shoots Me
Jun	24	Returning From the Mt. Hiei Hike: Taking The Easy Way Out
Jun	24	Polarizer Examples With the Moss and Ferns of Kyoto's Gioji Temple
Jun	22	Gioji Temple Photo Shoot: Nicolas's White Little Mushrooms
Jun	21	A Typhoon Makes for a Good Sunset (But It's Me That Makes It Great :-)
Jun	20	A Snapshot From Today's Hike: Kuuya-taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto
Jun	19	Tag Along With Me on a Photo Shoot at Kyoto's Gioji Temple
Jun	18	Rich Colors: A Good Start to an Amazing Day in Kyoto
Jun	18	More Low-Hanging Photographic Fruit: Passion-Fruit Flower in Downtown Kyoto
Jun	17	Father/Son Photo Shoot: Tetsuo and Issei
Jun	15	Happy Ordination Anniversary (54!) to Kyoto Institution Fr. Graham McDonnell
Jun	15	A Visit to Suntory's Kyoto Beer Brewery
Jun	14	A Visit To Kyoto University's Kwasan Observatory
Jun	13	Today's Cardiologist Was Not as Cute as Last Year's
Jun	12	Bland Sunset Over Kyoto: They Can't All Be Amazing
Jun	11	Another Informal Location-Logger Test, Including Google Latitude
Jun	9	A Dual Photo Ying-and-Yang-ish "What am I?" Quiz
Jun	8	Some Desktop Backgrounds from Kyoto's Koumyou-in Temple
Jun	6	Amazing Solar Video from NASA
Jun	6	An Oh-So-Obvious "What am I?" Quiz
Jun	6	Transit of Venus: Not Too Exciting
Jun	3	A Slightly Hazy Photographic Mystery from Kyoto's Mt. Hiei
Jun	2	Yesterday's Hike: The Agony Where Bravado Yields, In Spectacular Fashion, To Painful Reality
Jun	1	Giving Up, Sadly, on Adding A CPU Chip To My Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 Lens
May 2012
May	30	Hidden Gems in Lightroom 4.1; Hidden Gems in Lightroom Plugin Development
May	30	The Conundrum of Cleaning Lenses
May	29	This Japan Guidebook Should Prove Useful (assuming nothing has changed in the last 111½ years)
May	28	Asking Your Opinion on The Size of Photos on My Blog
May	27	Fumie's New Pointe Shoes
May	25	Lifehack: Keep Cut Flowers Fresh With a Splash of Bleach
May	22	Insidious Extortion: Ongoing Pitfalls of My Lightroom Plugin Development
May	21	A Few More Eclipse Photos from Kyoto
May	21	The Eclipse from Kyoto
May	17	Another Kyoto Stroll: Seeing (or Not Seeing, as the Case May Be) Reds
May	15	A Few Over-Process Under-Thought Photos From Lunch
May	13	Unconventional Camera Bag: Repurposing a Think Tank Photo Retrospective Lens Changer
May	9	A Bunch Of Blurry Pictures of Folks Pouring Wine
May	6	Returning From Lunch: New Discoveries Close To Home in Eastern Kyoto
May	2	Anthony's LEGO Battle at an Abandoned Castle, Made Possible by Warehouse19.se
April 2012
Apr	30	Delicious Yuba Lunch at Junsei, Near Kyoto's Kiyomizu Temple
Apr	29	Happy To Have Discovered the Galileo Offline Maps iOS App
Apr	28	Pretty As a Peach Blossom
Apr	26	On The Way To Lunch: Eastern-Kyoto Stroll
Apr	25	Second-Annual Disaster-Relief Charity Sale in Kyoto, May 5 and 6
Apr	25	Cleaning Out iDevice Cruft From My Mac
Apr	24	Huge Towering Burger at Kyoto Cafe "Hagi"
Apr	22	A Bit of Wine Tasting at Kyoto Station
Apr	20	Some Kyoto Domesticated Flora
Apr	19	More Early Shots From the Ishiyama-dera Temple
Apr	18	At the Entrance to Otsu's Ishiyama-dera Temple
Apr	16	Photographer's Low-Hanging Fruit: a Pretty Flower
Apr	14	Cherry-Blossom Season Winding Down in Kyoto
Apr	11	Lots of Stairs in Eastern Kyoto
Apr	9	A Few Blossoms From Kyoto's Chishaku-in Temple
Apr	8	Japan's First Whisky: Suntory's "Yamazaki" Distillery
Apr	6	A Feeble but Fun "What am I?" Quiz
Apr	2	Cliché Incarnate: Lame Formulaic Pictures of Plum Blossoms and Those Enjoying Them
Apr	1	Your April-Fool's Joke is Not Good Enough if I Don't Regret Having Trusted You
March 2012
Mar	31	Cherry Starting To Bud in Kyoto
Mar	30	Adding a CPU Chip to a Nikon-Mount Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 Lens
Mar	28	A Golden Bumpy "What am I?" Quiz
Mar	27	So Much For That Glorious iPad Screen: iOS and its Apps are Not Even Color Managed
Mar	24	Small But Tasty Party at Uroko
Mar	20	Apple's Dividend: a Windfall for Non-Shareholders
Mar	18	Funky Kyoto Marathoners: More Lightroom Processing Fun (and a mini challenge)
Mar	16	Some Random Japan Desktop Backgrounds From the Past Year
Mar	15	Kyoto Marathon: First Runners
Mar	14	Kyoto Butsugen College of Massage
Mar	12	Kyoto Marathon: In Search of a Photogenic Spot
Mar	11	Today's Kyoto Marathon
Mar	10	A Somewhat Parallel "What am I?" Quiz
Mar	10	Life Can Be Tough: Bath, iPad, Spitballs, and Quality Time
Mar	7	Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine: Intense Burn Continues
Mar	6	Lightroom 4.0 is Out!
Mar	1	A Few Colorful Kyoto Desktop Backgrounds from November
February 2012
Feb	22	Traditional Japanese Archery: the Instructors' Turn
Feb	17	Getting Photos from Lightroom to iPad: a Much Smoother Workflow
Feb	17	My Lightroom-to-iPad Workflow: Now a Lot More Refined
Feb	16	Intense Burn: A Few More Looks at the Bubbling Cauldron of Boiling Air
Feb	14	Looking for a Good Photo-Viewing iPad App
Feb	14	Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine: Intense Burn Begins
Feb	13	Two New Lightroom Plugins: Folder Publisher and Collection Publisher
Feb	10	Setsubun at the Heian Shrine: Beans of Good Fortune
Feb	5	Setsubun at the Heian Shrine: Attack (and Repulsion) of the Evil Spirits
Feb	3	A Few Shots From Today's Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine
January 2012
Jan	31	Traditional Japanese Archery: More Ladies, Part 2
Jan	27	Traditional Japanese Archery: More Ladies, Part 1
Jan	23	Badass Japanese Archery: Now It's The Ladies' Turn
Jan	23	Colorful Ladies' Wardrobe at the Japanese Archery Event
Jan	21	More Badass Japanese Archery
Jan	18	Milling About Ouside the Japanese-Archery Event
Jan	17	Flip Side of the Japanese Archery Rite-of-Passage Event: Way, Way Too Crowded to Enjoy
Jan	17	Lightroom Plugin Development: Adding a URL Handler to a Lightroom Plugin
Jan	16	Total Discipline: Anatomy of a Japanese Archer's Shot
Jan	15	Traditional Archery Like a Boss
Jan	15	Informal GPS Logger Test: iPhone 4s GPS is Shockingly Good
Jan	11	Great (and in Some Ways Important) "Fotoshop by Adobé" Spoof by Jesse Rosten
Jan	10	Rediscovering Kyoto's Mt. Yoshida with Friends
Jan	10	Adobe Has Released a Public Beta for Lightroom 4
Jan	8	Charcoal Preparation: Monochromatic Work of a Japanese Swordsmith
Jan	8	In-Camera Geoencoding and the Nikon D4: Case Study In Product-Development Costs, Ignorance, and Naïveté
Jan	6	Nikon Marketing's Amazing Feat: Overshadowing The Launch of the D4
Jan	5	Simple Temple Sliding Wall
Jan	4	Inspired Artistic Temple Shot By Paul Barr

December 2011
Dec	31	Kyoto Dynamic Weather, Rainbow, and Panorama
Dec	31	Photos Appearing in 2011
Dec	30	Safety Last: Shockingly Unsafe Preparations For the New Year Holiday
Dec	29	Big, Moody Space of the Kosan Temple in Northwest Kyoto
Dec	27	That Particularly Amazing Tree at the Imakumano Kannonji Temple
Dec	26	From What I Can Tell, The Japanese Economy Is Heating Up
Dec	23	Skipping Rocks with Kenny
Dec	18	Blessing in Disguise: Rained out at the Fushimi Castle
Dec	14	Context for the Bamboo-and-Leaf Photo, and Some Crazy Post-Processing
Dec	14	Trey Ratcliff's Print-Ad Experiment Is Revealing (But I Won't Be Trying It)
Dec	13	Lightroom 3.6 Released
Dec	12	A Cold, Wet, Photogenic Visit To The Ryoanji Temple
Dec	10	On The Path To (and From) Northwest Kyoto's Jingoji Temple
Dec	7	Another Short Stroll in Kyoto, Another Set of Pictures
Dec	6	Update for Nikon D3/D700/D300 Shooters Who Use Lightroom or Photoshop
Dec	6	Rainbow and Helicopter over North-East Kyoto
Dec	3	What Knots Should I Teach My Son?
Dec	2	My Turn: A Few of My Shots From Yesterday's Trip to the Eikando Temple with Anthony
Dec	2	Well, That's Surprising, It Seems that I Have Written a Plugin for 500px
Dec	1	Anthony Shows Some Photographic Brilliance at the Always-Brilliant Eikando Temple
November 2011
Nov	30	Spectacular Colors at Kyoto's Shinnyodo Temple
Nov	28	Another Day of Amazing Fall Colors in Kyoto
Nov	28	More Fall Foliage From the Yoshiminedera Temple
Nov	25	Entering Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Temple
Nov	25	Finally Over a Cold, Some Rustic Temple/Shrine Visits in Western Kyoto
Nov	17	Unusually Dynamic Views of Kyoto from Shogunzuka
Nov	15	Bride at Sunset
Nov	12	Not a Petroleum Refinery, Silly, it's an Aquarium
Nov	9	My Day Walking Aimlessly in Kyoto
Nov	7	A Few Okay Shots From Last Year's Visit To Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Temple
Nov	7	Heading Out To Photograph The Fall Foliage? Don't Forget The Polarizer Filter
Nov	5	A Dark, Moonless "What am I?" Quiz
Nov	4	Getting Photos from Lightroom to an iPad is a Lot Harder (to Do Well) Than You Think; Here's How
October 2011
Oct	31	A Few Stylized Shots from Bunny Island
Oct	30	Japan's Bunny Island
Oct	28	Leaving Rabbit Island
Oct	24	One More From Last Year's Eikando Temple Fall Colors
Oct	22	23,692-Pixel-Wide Panorma of Kyoto, in Five Minutes
Oct	20	Kyoto's Eikando Temple Continues To Amaze
Oct	19	Kyoto Fall-Color Preview With Impact: Impressionism in Lightroom
Oct	12	A Few More From the Ikebana Show, 2011
Oct	11	Haphazard and Defocused: Elusive Lesson in Photographic Composition
Oct	10	Low-Hanging Fruit: Flower Detail from Kid Ikebana
Oct	7	After the Rice Harvest
Oct	7	On Why the iPhone 4s is a Disappointment, and on Steve Jobs' Greatest Failure
Oct	5	More From the Rice Harvest
Oct	2	Calendar Template PSDs for 2012
September 2011
Sep	29	Stages of the Rice Harvest
Sep	28	Highlight of Yesterday's Mountain Ride: Friendly Farmer Lady
Sep	27	Perfect Flower in the Mountains of Nara
Sep	20	Mike Bennett's Last Day in Kyoto: Arashiyama Bike Ride
Sep	20	Saga of Frustration: Developing (and Abandoning) a Lightroom Plugin for 500px
Sep	18	Visiting the Stonecarvers' Gardens with Mike Bennett
Sep	13	Wrapping Up Last Week's Fushimi-Inari Shrine Posts
Sep	11	Visiting the Fushimi-Inari Shrine with Mike Bennett and Friends
Sep	9	Kyoto's Dazzling Fushimi-Inari Shrine is Now Even More Dazzling
Sep	8	Typhoon Was Mostly a Non-Event in Kyoto
August 2011
Aug	27	More Wandering Around The Fringes of the Sennyuji Temple
Aug	27	In Other Hurricane News: Two Typhoons (and Us) Bear Down on Japan
Aug	23	Update to my Data-Plot Lightroom Plugin Adds More Kinds of Plots
Aug	19	A Couple of New Lightroom Export Plugins: to Twitter, and to ExposureManager
Aug	16	A Few Pink Blossoms at the Sennyuji Temple
Aug	15	Picturesque Side Entrance to the Sennyuji Temple
Aug	13	Roofs and Rock Gardens at Kyoto's Sennyuji Temple
Aug	12	Did Some Big Server Maintenance
Aug	11	Visiting Cousin Felicity
Aug	5	Mild River Rafting in West Virginia
Aug	2	Gion Matsuri: More From Day Three
Aug	1	Fun Stops for an 8-Year-Old Boy Along Route 77 Between Cleveland and Charlotte?
July 2011
Jul	29	Slightly Mysterious Stairs Into Mountain Overgrowth
Jul	24	A Few Shots of Me at Gion Matsuri
Jul	19	Gion Matsuri's Shinkousai Event
Jul	19	The Kind Of Shot That Ultra Thin Depth Of Field Was Made For
Jul	18	One Quick Photo from the Gion Festival's Shinkousai Event
Jul	17	A Few Shots from Gion Matsuri Festival, Day 3
Jul	16	Gion Festival Street Shots: More From Day 2
Jul	15	Gion Matsuri Festival: Ruining Every Photo Before It's Taken
Jul	14	A Thin Slice of Big Crowds at Kyoto's Gion Matsuri Festival
Jul	13	The Innocent Honesty of a Child
Jul	9	Anthony Welcomes His Cousin Nao
Jul	7	Uji-City Rural Mountain Drive #2: Ice-Cream Girl, Fruit Pizza, and More
Jul	5	Anthony Lego Battle: Clones vs. Droids
Jul	4	Pleasant Little Village in Uji, Part 2
Jul	4	Fireworks Photos Like You've Never Seen, from Mark Sirota
Jul	3	Mountain Ravine in Northern Kyoto, Part 2
Jul	2	Mountain Ravine in Northern Kyoto, Part 1
Jul	1	The Very Red Zaobashi Suspension Bridge in Wakayama Prefecture
June 2011
Jun	29	Final Wrapup From My Earlier Remote-Mountain Trip in Uji City
Jun	28	Searching for Mountain Vegetables
Jun	26	Itami Sky Park, Next to Osaka Airport
Jun	25	A Keto Harvester Head in Action is an Impressive Sight
Jun	23	Revisiting April's Eastern-Kyoto Temple Stroll
Jun	22	Scenes From Mountain Roads in Northern Kyoto
Jun	21	What's the Point of This "What am I?" Quiz?
Jun	20	Trying Some Hard-Edged Black and White
Jun	19	A Photographic Challenge of Monumental Scale
Jun	18	Kyoto's Shimyouin Temple: Exceedingly Remote, Bashful, and Serene
Jun	16	Deep In The Mountains Above Kyoto's Kumogahata Village
Jun	16	A Few More From Our First Rural Uji Trip
Jun	15	Rainy Tranquility at the Sanzen-in Temple
Jun	13	Pleasant Little Village in Uji
Jun	10	What It Looks Like When Tiered Rice Paddies Go to Seed
Jun	7	Rural Uji's Kiyotakigyuu Shrine
Jun	7	Scenes From Rural Japan: Mountain Village in Uji City
Jun	6	A Good Day, Courtesy of Suntory and a Cute Cardiologist
Jun	4	Not Meant to Be: Trying My Hand At Metalsmithing
Jun	3	A Bumpy-on-the-Bottom "What am I?" Quiz
Jun	3	Exquisite Beauty Growing Like a Weed by the Side of the Road
Jun	1	While Crossing the Great Seto Bridge
May 2011
May	28	LEGO/Train Play with Gen
May	28	Views Near the Top of Wakayama's Mt. Oishigamine
May	27	The Aragishima Terraced Rice Paddies of Wakayama
May	26	One Last Towel-Museum "What am I?" Quiz
May	25	Exploring a Glass of Dainty Flowers With the Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5
May	25	The Challenge of Comment Moderation in a Spiteful World
May	24	The Unexpected Culinary Delights of Roppongi's Le Grand Soir
May	23	Descending Into a Volcanic Crater (sort of)
May	22	Terrace Dining Over Kyoto's Kamo River, at Yakiniku Hiro
May	21	A New Twist on Playing Catch
May	20	The Kongourinji Temple: Main Garden, and Beyond...
May	19	Revisiting Imabari's Colorful Towel Museum
May	18	Old and Odd Tools at the Smithy
May	17	Pierre Nadeau, Japanese Swordsmith
May	16	Swordsmith Workshop "What am I?" Quiz
May	13	Big Lens at the River: Focusing on Disappointment
May	11	Me and My Little Lens
May	10	A Little Cold-Forging Metal Work
May	10	Disaster-Relief Charity Sale in Kyoto, May 28th
May	9	Kyoto Station Evening at 300mm f/2
May	8	More Street Photography at 300mm f/2
May	7	This "What am I?" Quiz Will Stump You
May	7	Street Photography (Sort of) In Roppongi Hills
May	4	A Bit of Summer Volcano Skiing
May	4	Scott Kelby Responds, Dazzling With His Marketing Magic
May	4	Misty Evening in Rural Japan
May	2	Red, Green, and Black "What am I?" Quiz
April 2011
Apr	30	Imabari Day 2: Dougo Onsen Hot Springs
Apr	28	Class Trip to Enjoy the Views at Shogunzuka
Apr	26	Exploring the Sharper Side of the Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5
Apr	25	My New Lightroom Plugin: as Close to "Layers in Lightroom" as You're Going To Get
Apr	23	The Amazing Marketing Power of Scott Kelby
Apr	22	Imabari Trip Day 2: Bridge Bicycle Ride Part 2
Apr	21	Imabari Trip Day 2: Bridge Bicycle Ride Part 1
Apr	19	New Pet, New Ordeals
Apr	18	Revisiting the Road to Imabari: The View from Mt. Takanawa
Apr	17	Another Cherry-Blossom Stroll on a Lazy Kyoto Sunday
Apr	16	Important Note for Nikon D3/D700/D300 Shooters Who Use Lightroom or Photoshop
Apr	15	Revisiting the Road to Imabari: Stops #1 and #2
Apr	14	Cherry Blossoms Fall and the Kids Play
Apr	12	The Towel Museum in Imabari Japan, Part 2
Apr	11	Exploring the Edge of Creamy Macro Bokeh with Lily of the Nile
Apr	11	The Towel Museum in Imabari Japan, Part 1
Apr	10	Lunch Under the Cherry Blossoms
Apr	9	An Amazing Day of Photography at Some Eastern-Kyoto Temples
Apr	8	Mountain Play with Monet and Friends
Apr	7	Cherry Blossoms Welcome Us Back to Kyoto
Apr	6	More Challenging Imabari "What am I?" Quiz
Apr	5	Simple Imabari "What am I?" Quiz
Apr	5	On The Road to Imabari
Apr	2	More Blossoms in Kyoto, More Quakes out East
March 2011
Mar	29	It Has Begun: Cherry Blossoms Appear in Kyoto
Mar	27	Anthony Finishes Second Grade
Mar	27	Anthony's Sleeping Giraffe
Mar	26	Camo Duck in Black and White
Mar	25	Kyoto Cherry Blossoms on the Verge
Mar	24	Anthony Lego World #27
Mar	21	Our Little Fish
Mar	18	Tough Week in Japan: Earthquake Timelapse March 11-17
Mar	17	Scaremongering in the Western Press
Mar	15	Another Quake in Japan, This Time Near Mt. Fuji
Mar	15	Inspiration in the Midst of Indescribable Heartbreak
Mar	14	Simple Beauty in the Japanese Countryside
Mar	13	The Hope of Cherry Blossoms in Japan
Mar	12	Google-Earth Locations For Some of the Japan Quake Photos
Mar	11	Today's Quakes in Japan
Mar	10	Finally: My Faux-Mat Photoshop Script is Out
Mar	4	Surprising Early Cherry-Blossom Preview Hits Kyoto
Mar	3	Dual-Orientation "Wall of Relaxation" Desktop Background
Mar	2	Orbitz is Pure Evil
February 2011
Feb	26	Simple Wood Carving on a Rural Shrine's Gate
Feb	25	Stark Tree
Feb	23	Signs of Spring Start to Bud in Kyoto
Feb	22	Exploring Kyoto's Northern Mountains with Vaughn Hart
Feb	21	Still a Bit Of Snow In Kyoto (Sort Of)
Feb	18	Lookin' Stylish for an Eight Year Old...
Feb	16	Dabbling in Some Fine-Art Printing for My Office
Feb	14	Without Fate: Dumping Ground of Monumental Proportions
Feb	8	A Bridge, and a Couple of Non-Bridges, in the Snow
Feb	5	The Unassuming "Ice Room" Himuro Shrine
Feb	4	Is There Some (Blending-Mode?) Magic to This Photoshop Problem?
Feb	3	Pretty Flowers as Filler
January 2011
Jan	29	Wrapping Up Shoudoshima Island and 2010
Jan	26	Rainy Day on Shoudoshima Island
Jan	21	Moonrise & Sunrise over Shoudoshima
Jan	19	Overstuffed Leafy Snow Tacos
Jan	18	The Great Kamo River Battle for the Bread
Jan	17	Feeding Frenzy on the Kamo River
Jan	13	Hotel Aqua, on Shoudoshima Island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea
Jan	11	Balmer's “There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” Quote
Jan	10	On The Way To The Kongourinji Temple's Main Garden
Jan	7	A Belated Christmas Post
Jan	4	When You Tempt Fate, Sometimes You Lose
Jan	2	An Aquatic "What am I?" Quiz
Jan	1	Our 2011 New Year's Card

December 2010
Dec	31	One Week as a Microcosm for the Year
Dec	31	Photos Appearing in 2010
Dec	24	Shogo and Namiko's Wedding Wrapup
Dec	21	Sort of New Lightroom Plugin: Major Update to my Picasa Face-Recognition-Data Import Plugin
Dec	19	Shorn
Dec	17	Deep Sorrow at the Kongourinji Temple's Path of Jizou
Dec	16	Only in Japan? It Boggles The Mind To Wonder What Laws Allow This To Happen
Dec	13	Shockingly Wasteful Packaging from Amazon
Dec	12	New Lightroom Plugin: JPEG Export Quality Tester
Dec	12	Visiting "Yama no Ie Hasegawa" with the Family
Dec	8	Kyoto Mountain Restaurant "Yama no Ie Hasegawa"
Dec	6	Carpet of Yellow at the Iwato Ochiba Shrine, Deep in the Mountains of North-West Kyoto
Dec	3	Fun With Mirrors at the Kyoto Science Museum
November 2010
Nov	30	Zipping a Lock on Cheap, Simple Waterproof Protection For Your iPad/iPhone
Nov	29	Photo Shoot Among the Fall Colors at Shouzan in Kyoto
Nov	28	Going Vertical: Portrait-Mode Desktop Backgrounds
Nov	26	Colorful Carpet of Leaves at the Koutou-in Temple
Nov	26	Nishimura Stone Carvers, Autumn 2010 Edition
Nov	23	Short Family Visit to the Middle-of-Nowhere Sokushouji Temple
Nov	21	Beating the Crowds at the Middle-of-Nowhere Sokushouji Temple
Nov	20	Another Look at the Bazillion Offering Statuettes at Kyoto's Sanzen-in Temple
Nov	18	Another Amazing Trip To Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Temple
Nov	16	Visiting The Eikando Temple's Evening Foliage Lightup with Sergey Kolychev
Nov	15	Creating Photo Books with Lightroom, InDesign, and Blurb
Nov	14	New Photoshop Templates for 2011 Calendars
Nov	12	Autumn Colors Desktop Background, and a "What am I?" Quiz
Nov	11	A First Visit To Kyoto's Koutou-in Temple
Nov	10	Today's Most-Excellent Adventures: Temple Hopping in the Mountains of South-Western Kyoto
Nov	9	First Taste of Fall Colors at Shiga's Amazing Kongourinji Temple
Nov	8	Bridges Across a Small Valley in Konan
Nov	7	Namiko Candid Bride Portrait
Nov	7	Yodobashi Camera Opens in Kyoto
Nov	2	KidZania Visit #3, Part 2
Nov	1	KidZania Visit #3, Part 1
October 2010
Oct	31	Kyoto's Slightly Odd Tanukitanisan Fudouin Temple
Oct	31	Federal Express is Useless in Japan
Oct	29	Around the Kyoto's Daitokuji Temple Complex
Oct	28	Couple'a New Lightroom Plugins: Bulk Develop, and Order Prints Locally
Oct	28	Jeffrey's "Bulk Develop Settings" Lightroom Plugin
Oct	27	Well, Well, Well, a Small Self Portrait
Oct	27	A Bit of Tai Chi at the Heian Shrine
Oct	25	Flower Arranging Exhibition, Revisited (Part 2)
Oct	24	Anthony's Eighth Birthday, Sponsored by LEGO™ Toys
Oct	15	Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part V (Entertainment)
Oct	14	Lunch Along the Kamo River, Try #2
Oct	13	Lunch Along the Kamo River
Oct	12	Kids Flower Arranging Exhibition, Revisited
Oct	11	Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part IV (Mingling)
Oct	10	Happy Anniversary to Fumie's Folks: When 10-10-10 is 36
Oct	9	Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part III (Interlude)
Oct	7	Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part II (Cutting of the Cake)
Oct	6	Reading with the iPad: iBooks, Kindle, and Nook, oh my!
Oct	5	Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part I
Oct	4	Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Hors d'Oeuvre Reception
Oct	3	Fumie's Brother Shogo Weds Namiko
September 2010
Sep	29	Anthony and His Tree, 2010
Sep	27	Bonking the Biggest Mokugyou In the World
Sep	25	Straight Lines of Crunchy Round Herring
Sep	25	Crossing the Komaki Dam
Sep	23	Still More From Our Visit to Sunainosato in Shiga
Sep	22	Highly Recommended: GGS Glass Screen Protector, and GreenLife Style eBay Store
Sep	20	Bowling with Gen
Sep	20	Underwhelmed With Northern Kyoto's Jakkoin Temple
Sep	18	Breakdown: When Good Intentions Don't Scale
Sep	11	A Couple of Striking Photos
Sep	4	No Posts for a While
August 2010
Aug	31	Clearing Vines
Aug	29	Back In Kyoto 2010: Big Clouds (and a Big Bird Poop)
Aug	26	Rocky "What am I?" Quiz
Aug	25	40 Years of Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 Lenses
Aug	23	Rock Climbing at Katie Patterson's Birthday Party
Aug	22	The Surprise of Queen Anne's Lace
Aug	21	Swimming-Pool Play With Friends
Aug	18	Little Flowers, Little Context
Aug	16	Goldfinches on a Feeder
Aug	15	A Bit of iPad Air Hockey
Aug	14	Aren't There Any iPad Apps to Help Japanese Kids Study Kanji?
Aug	13	"Uzu" iPad App Reviewed By 23-Month-Old Jena Kreta
Aug	12	More Josh-and-Anthony Water Play
Aug	11	Jogging with Grandpa, 2010 Edition
Aug	11	Squirt Gun Water Fight
Aug	10	Random Summer Fun
Aug	10	Jeffrey's "Order Prints Locally" Lightroom Plugin
Aug	9	Anthony By an Old Tree
Aug	7	Monster Marshmallow
Aug	7	Torture Spelled “ S · i · s · t · e · r ”
Aug	6	Impromptu Chickadee Portraiture: Better Luck Next Time
Aug	5	Late-Night Tower Destruction Play
Aug	5	Fallen-Tree Removal, Day Two
Aug	4	Cousin Jena at the Lake
Aug	3	Anthony's Home Run Derby
Aug	3	Monster Play
Aug	3	The Search
Aug	2	Doing a Puzzle
Aug	1	Anthony's Cousins Josh and Jena
Aug	1	Cousins Josh and Jena Arrive
Aug	1	Just Released Some Simple JSON Encode/Decode Routines in Pure Lua
Aug	1	Simple JSON Encode/Decode in Pure Lua
July 2010
Jul	30	KidZania Visit #2 Wrapup: Construction and Health-Care Aid
Jul	30	New Lightroom Plugin in Beta: Tree Publisher
Jul	30	Jeffrey's "Tree Publisher" Lightroom Plugin
Jul	28	My Morning: Birds, Flowers, Coffee, and my Camera
Jul	27	Clearing Away the Fallen Tree, Part 1
Jul	26	Oh Deer, What Happened Here?
Jul	26	Medium Tree, Big Mess
Jul	25	Rich Colors at Dusk
Jul	25	Uncle Alan's Birthday Cake
Jul	25	Feeding The Birds (at Their Behest)
Jul	25	A Visit From Cousin Felicity
Jul	23	The Location May Be Different, But....
Jul	22	A Few Japanese Swords of Note
Jul	20	Just-Arrived-After-a-Long-Flight "What am I?" Quiz
Jul	17	Golden "What am I?" Quiz
Jul	16	Kyoto Kamo River Flooding: Sanjo
Jul	14	Kyoto's Kamo River Goes a Bit Wild
Jul	13	Cosina Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 125mm F2.5 SL
Jul	12	New Writeup: Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality
Jul	9	Note to Papa
Jul	4	Night Shift at the Bakery
Jul	2	Fighting Fires, KidZania Style
Jul	1	Snowy New Year Trip Day Three: Dam Snow
June 2010
Jun	28	Appliance Repair at KidZania
Jun	26	More From Sunainosato in Shiga
Jun	26	Disorienting "What am I?" Quiz
Jun	25	Geometric Awaji
Jun	25	Back in the Saddle With a Wonderful Sunset
Jun	23	This is Getting Silly: New "Metadata Viewer" Lightroom Plugin
Jun	23	A Bit of Color and Thunder
Jun	20	New Lightroom Plugin, "PhotoSafe", Guards Selected Photos Against Accidental Deletion
Jun	8	Lightroom 3 Released; Update on my Plugins
Jun	4	Brad Kremer's “Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan”
May 2010
May	30	Driving a Train at KidZania
May	28	Anthony's Radio Show
May	28	First Shots with a Cosina Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5
May	24	Cafe at Sunainosato in Southern Shiga, Japan
May	24	Doggy Funeral
May	21	A "What am I?" Quiz at 1000mm
May	19	Late Afternoon on Awaji Island's Matsubara Beach
May	17	Anniversary Lunch, at Kyoto's Quarirengué Cafe
May	15	Got My Lens Back From Sigma
May	14	Awaji "Hyakudanen": 100 Terraced Garden Squares
May	12	Haircut: Second-Grader is Easier than a Two-Year-Old
May	11	The Westin on Awaji Island
May	9	Pretty Flowers to Brighten the Day
May	9	Shaver Recommendation: Gillette Fusion Power
May	8	Egg-Slicer "What am I?" Quiz
May	7	Lies, Damn Lies, and Photographs
May	7	An Unfortunate Sigma "Bigma" Enigma
May	5	Children's Day Cake
May	5	Akashi Straights Bridge: Longest Parking Lot in the World
May	4	Yabusame Mounted Archer, Revisited
May	4	"Yabusame" Mounted Archery Rite at the Shimogamo Shrine
May	3	Jeffrey's "Export to KODAK Gallery" Lightroom Plugin
May	1	Beware of Wild Boar
May	1	Morning Rush Hour on Osaka Bay
April 2010
Apr	30	Sunset from Awaji Island
Apr	28	Daimonji Hike 2010, Part 1
Apr	28	Automatic Lens Correction Coming to Lightroom 3!
Apr	26	Sigma Bigma's New Optical Stabilization
Apr	25	A Bit of Drama on Mt. Daimonji
Apr	25	Freaky Wavy Lines Quiz Answer
Apr	23	Heron at the Canal
Apr	21	Walkabout with the Sigma Bigma: Versatility Galore
Apr	21	I Laugh at Your Puny 500mm Lens: Sigma Bigma at 1,000mm
Apr	19	Keeping Sextuplets in Line is Like Herding Cats
Apr	18	Amorphous Wavy Lines Quiz
Apr	17	My New Sigma "Bigma", Day 2
Apr	17	So, Just How Bigma is the Sigma?
Apr	16	Sigma's new "Bigma" 50-500mm Super-tele Zoom, Part II
Apr	14	Sigma's new "Bigma" 50-500mm Super-tele Zoom (now with OS)
Apr	13	New Camera! Now I Can Finally Dump Nikon
Apr	12	Bridge Over Icy Water
Apr	6	Fistfuls of Blossoms in Urban Kyoto
Apr	5	Anthony Growing Up: the Tipping Point
Apr	5	Just One More and We'll Call it a Wrap
Apr	3	Finally, a Sunny Day in Kyoto for the Blossoms, Tourists, and Cameras to Come Out
March 2010
Mar	30	Night River Cherry Blossoms, and a Movie Shoot
Mar	29	Cherry Blossoms in the Driving Snow
Mar	29	Gettin' Freaky With Lightroom Tone-Curve Presets
Mar	27	Stupid Tone-Curve Tricks: A Half Dozen Develop Presets for Lightroom
Mar	26	Kyoto Cherry Blossoms Off to a Cold, Wet Start
Mar	25	The Limestone Caves of Ishigaki Island
Mar	23	Lightroom 3 Beta 2 and My Plugins
Mar	21	Anthony Finishes First Grade
Mar	19	Fumie's Birthday Cake
Mar	16	A Visit to the Yaeyama Palm Reserve on Ishigaki Island
Mar	14	Snowy New-Year Trip: Start of Day Three
Mar	10	Zachary Braverman Shakuhachi Concert
Mar	9	Most Evil Snack: Boukun Habanero
Mar	5	Snowy Goodbye to Shirakawago Village
Mar	3	Clearing Roof Snow in Shirakawago
Mar	2	First Look at Snowy Shirakawago Village
February 2010
Feb	28	Snowy Quiz of Questionable Appeal
Feb	27	Speed Trap, Japanese Style
Feb	26	Short Hike in the Mossy Forest of North-East Kyoto
Feb	24	“Wild Boar”, Free Audio Book by Anthony Friedl
Feb	23	Groggy
Feb	21	Snowy Farewell to Gokayama Village
Feb	20	Rich Colors Amid the Dull of Winter: Earnest Barr's February Cherry Blossoms
Feb	19	Batting Practice on the Slopes
Feb	18	A Bit More Sledding
Feb	13	Bed of Moss and Ferns, Revisited
Feb	12	More Sledding at Makino Ski Area
Feb	11	Self Portrait at a Distance
Feb	10	Road to Now: My Long Path To Lightroom Plugin Development
Feb	10	Woo-Hoo, Apple Releases Aperture 3!
Feb	8	A Visit to the Makino Ski Area, Part 2
Feb	7	A Visit to the Makino Ski Area, Part 1
Feb	6	Today's First Photo...
Feb	5	"How's the Economy?", Japanese Style
Feb	5	Stone Sphere
Feb	3	Deceptively Clear: Snow-Covered Mountains in Exquisite Detail
Feb	1	Steep Steps in Gokayama Village
January 2010
Jan	31	Anthony Makes His First Communion
Jan	31	Hot Noodles in Gokayama
Jan	29	Snowy Gokayama Village, Part II
Jan	29	Disappointed with the iPad's Unveiling
Jan	27	Snowy Mountains
Jan	27	On the Permanence of One's Online (and Offline) Presence
Jan	25	Shutter Speed's Effect on Falling Snow
Jan	24	Rosy Cheeks
Jan	23	Japan's Deep-Rooted Ethos of Fire Prevention
Jan	22	Introduction to a Snowy Gokayama Village
Jan	21	Some Kind of Snow & Face Picture
Jan	20	Anthony's "Idea Award"
Jan	18	Some Things Are The Same The World Over
Jan	17	Driving Snow
Jan	15	Anthony Art Project: A Fish That Can Suck In Anything!!!
Jan	12	First Taste of Snow on Our New Year's Trip
Jan	9	Anthony's Sports-Day Drawing
Jan	8	Theme For Our New Year's Trip
Jan	7	Back Home After a Short Trip
Jan	3	Breakfast in Okinawa
Jan	3	Four Generations for New Year's Dinner
Jan	2	Saw Avatar This Evening
Jan	1	Our 2010 New Year's Card

December 2009
Dec	31	Cherry Blossoms Amid the Fall Foliage
Dec	31	Photos Appearing in 2009
Dec	30	Smoothly Curved Water Basins: To Moss or Not, That Is The Question
Dec	29	Anthony Gets Crabby at the Shore
Dec	28	Taketomi Island Roundup
Dec	27	Zany Roof Guardians on Taketomi Island, in the Far South of Japan
Dec	25	A Calm and Pleasant Christmas
Dec	24	All Ready for Santa
Dec	24	Stone Carvings: Curves, Crowns, an Ouchie, and More...
Dec	22	Another Stone "What am I?" Quiz: Star Destroyer!
Dec	21	On Darwin and the March Toward Winter
Dec	20	Answer to the Stone-Puzzle "What am I?" Quiz
Dec	19	Thatched Roofs and Colored Canopies at the Himukai Shrine, Kyoto Japan
Dec	17	Changing Seasons, Changing Lenses
Dec	16	Layers, Strata, and More: Thanks for the Captions
Dec	16	Visiting the Back-Mountain Hiyoshi Shrine with Jon Van Dalen
Dec	15	Released the Picasa Face-Recognition Plugin for Lightroom, FWIW
Dec	15	Sleeping with Curious George: A Short Timeline
Dec	13	Photo in Need of a Caption
Dec	12	Crafty Clay Play with Mommy
Dec	10	A Superficial Overview of the Gardens Behind the Nishimura Stone-Carving Workshop
Dec	9	Stone Puzzle "What am I?" Quiz
Dec	9	How to Make an Entire Day Evaporate
Dec	7	Stonecarver Daizo Nishimura at Work
Dec	7	Giving Up on Picasa Face Recognition
Dec	5	The Boundless Potential of Nishimura Stone Lanterns' Back Garden
Dec	4	Paul Barr + Stonecarver's Garden + Lightroom
Dec	3	Nishimura Stone Lanterns: Garden Preview
Dec	2	A Few Outtakes from the Nitenji Temple
Dec	2	Nishimura Stone Lanterns: the Workshop
Dec	1	Fairly Dirty "What am I?" Quiz
November 2009
Nov	30	Mysterious Cut Stones in the Mountains of Kyoto
Nov	29	Fall Colors in Nature, as Nature Intended
Nov	28	Gate of Disrepair: Kanda Inari Shrine (at the Himukai Shrine, Kyoto)
Nov	27	NASA Meets Kyoto: Zoom with a View
Nov	27	Badminton in the Park: Bikeride to the Kyoto Imperial Palace
Nov	26	Anthony's New Plush-Toy Friend: Welcome Buta-chan!
Nov	26	And so 6½ Becomes 7: Welcome Claire Ann Friedl
Nov	25	Apple Time Capsule: Be Sure To Use Good Cabling
Nov	25	Teeming Throngs Enjoying the Colors at Kyoto's Eikando Temple
Nov	24	One More Lightroom Plugin: Focal-length Sort
Nov	24	More From Yesterday's Trip to the Eikando Temple
Nov	23	Holy Cow, the Gardens at Kyoto's Eikando Temple are Gorgeous!
Nov	21	Family Bike Outing on a Brisk, Blustery Kyoto Afternoon
Nov	21	In Search of Yoshida Shrine
Nov	19	Anthony-Designed Three-Seater StarWars™ Figher Ship
Nov	17	Serendipity: Pleasant Sunday Morning at Kyoto's Yoshida Shrine
Nov	17	New WordPress Plugin: "Time Since"
Nov	16	Box of Birthday Presents From Aunt Natalie and Uncle Alan!
Nov	15	A Couple of “Cozy” Houses in the Neighborhood
Nov	15	Purple Glowing Flower
Nov	14	A Few "Autumn in Kyoto" Mood Shots
Nov	14	A Fall-Foliage Visit to the Hakuryuuen Gardens (sort of)
Nov	13	Anthony's Birthday Presents
Nov	12	FYI: 2010 Calendar Photoshop Files
Nov	11	Tokyo Disneyland: Riding the Roller Coaster By Himself (sort of)
Nov	10	Windows Woes on my Mac
Nov	9	Anthony Is Starting To Read English
Nov	9	Visit to Tokyo Disneyland: the Second Day
Nov	8	Visit to Tokyo Disneyland: the First Night
Nov	7	Off on a Short Trip (a week ago)
Nov	6	Web-Browsing Sluggishes on Mac: Disable DNS IPv6 in Firefox
Nov	3	My New Mac: Behold the Awesomeness!
Nov	1	Interactive Map of My Blog Photos
October 2009
Oct	28	Starting to See Splashes of Fall Colors in Kyoto
Oct	28	Ditching the Ball and Chain and Escaping From the Windows™
Oct	26	Kyoto Jidai Matsuri Photos by Stéphane Barbery
Oct	25	Anthony Turns 7: Birthday Cake
Oct	22	Plate Full of Autumn
Oct	22	Adobe Lightroom 3: Beta Plugin Info
Oct	21	Anthony Turns 7 (a couple of days early)
Oct	19	Anthony's Shichi-go-san Event: Family Portrait
Oct	18	Laundry Day
Oct	17	Anthony's Shichi-go-san Event: First Steps
Oct	17	Yet Another New Lightroom Plugin: Extended Search
Oct	16	New Lightroom Plugin: Focal-length Plot
Oct	15	Getting Ready For Anthony's Shichi-go-san Event
Oct	13	Anthony Gesture in B&W at the Heian Shrine
Oct	12	Anthony's Shichi-Go-San Hakama Portrait
Oct	11	Sukiyaki at Kyoto's Moritaya Restaurant
Oct	10	Busy Photo Day: Stairs, Duds, Sabers, and Cheers!
Oct	9	Anthony Coming Home From the Bus Stop
Oct	7	Anthony Rowing the Boat... Sort Of
Oct	5	Anthony's First Grade-School Sports Festival
September 2009
Sep	28	Two Sides of the Same Photo
Sep	28	More Discoveries with Nils: Mountain Roads and Spooky Forests
Sep	24	Anthony's Diary: Praise for Teacher
Sep	23	Nils Ferry, and Japanese Wedding Ceremonies
Sep	22	Delighting in a Chasm Between Artistic Senses
Sep	21	Eclectic Photo Geeks at the Eclectic Music Concert
Sep	20	An Evening of Eclectic Music Fusion
Sep	17	A Bit of Paragliding in Kyoto's Northern Mountains
Sep	16	The Hakuryuuen Gardens (Sort of)
Sep	15	Well, That Wasn't Fun
Sep	11	A Visit to Rengeji Temple with Nils Ferry
Sep	10	Final Images from the Toganojaya Restaurant
Sep	9	Toganojaya Restaurant, Part 2
Sep	8	Toganojaya Restaurant, Kyoto Japan
Sep	7	Table with a View
Sep	5	Three Blades of Grass, and Friends
Sep	2	Quicky Passport-Photo Photo Session
Sep	1	Back in Kyoto, 2009 Edition
August 2009
Aug	29	Anthony and His Tree, 2009
Aug	29	Jogging with Grandpa, 2009 Edition
Aug	28	Disappointed with Bill Bryson
Aug	28	Santa-Clause Wishes, and Photography Practice
Aug	27	Grace and Luke's Turn in the Boat
Aug	27	Boat Ride for Anthony and Josh
Aug	26	Hosing Down a Dirty Boat
Aug	25	Final Approach into Tokyo Narita
Aug	24	Katie's Birthday Party: Curls 'n Bowling
Aug	23	Geese in Final Approach
Aug	22	Painting T-Shirts with Aunt Natalie
Aug	21	Letter to Mommy
Aug	16	Four Siblings Easier than Six Cousins
Aug	15	Six Cousins: Thoughts on Kid Group Photos
Aug	12	Wide-Angle Summer Fun
Aug	11	Rockets Away: Two Model-Rocket Launches
Aug	11	Cousins Driving Each Other (Crazy)
Aug	10	Aunt Chickee and the 6½th Cousin
Aug	9	Can't Get Any Work Done With Birds on my Laptop
Aug	9	Big-Boy Anthony: Sans One Tooth
Aug	8	Luke's Eyes
Aug	8	Pretty (and Mysterious?) Water "Shadows"
Aug	8	Kiddy Pool
Aug	8	Life without the Internet: Living in the Stone Age
Aug	6	Basics of Life: A Bit of Real Appreciation
Aug	6	Loose Tooth
Aug	5	Other World Computing On-The-Go Pro External Disk Housing
Aug	3	Tractor Ride
Aug	2	Throwin' Rocks
Aug	1	Joe Cool Anthony and a Toad House
Aug	1	More Cousins 'n Such, #2
July 2009
Jul	31	Conflagration of Cousins
Jul	31	Visiting with Cousin Felicity
Jul	29	Baseball With Uncle Alan
Jul	29	Keeping the Geese in Line
Jul	28	A Bit of Water-Hose Play
Jul	28	In Ohio for the Summer
Jul	28	More Corrupt Memory-Card Woes
Jul	24	Ishigaki Day 3: Coral Beds Near Taketomi Island
Jul	23	KidZania Wrapup: Graphic Design and a Pizza Dinner
Jul	22	Today's Total Solar Eclipse, and a Rant about Japanese Culture
Jul	21	New Lightroom Plugin: Export-to-Photobucket
Jul	21	Kidzania Flight School
Jul	20	River Play and Kana-chan's First Bike Ride
Jul	18	Ishigaki Day 3: A Coral Wall's Plants
Jul	17	New Lightroom Plugin: Export to Expono
Jul	15	Ishigaki Day 3: Floral Quiz on Taketomi Island
Jul	12	Ishigaki Day 2: Through Anthony's Eyes
Jul	11	Investigative Reporting, KidZania Style
Jul	11	Curious George's New Passport
Jul	10	Serenity: a New Old Desktop Background
Jul	8	Driver's License for a Six-Year Old
Jul	6	Playing in the Rain
Jul	3	Anthony's KidZania Job #2: Construction Work
Jul	1	Getting a Little Banking Done at KidZania
Jul	1	Anthony's First "Job" at KidZania
June 2009
Jun	29	They Grow Up So Quickly (but are still a bit green)
Jun	28	The Wonder of "KidZania"
Jun	26	Anthony's Sunflowers
Jun	25	Small Glimpse into Japanese Elementary School
Jun	24	Ishigaki Day 2: A Lively Dinner
Jun	22	New Lightroom Plugin: Video-Asset Management
Jun	19	Ishigaki Day 2: Winding Down with a Sunset Swim
Jun	18	Ishigaki Day 2: Mild Sunset
Jun	16	Ishigaki Day 2: Dynamic Weather at the Hirakubo Lighthouse
Jun	16	Anthony's First Test
Jun	15	Saturday Play in the Park with Monet and Gen
Jun	14	The Fruits of Saving: Spending Your Allowance
Jun	13	Tree With Really Thick, Crackly Bark
Jun	10	Anthony At "Bunny Island" With His Grandparents
Jun	7	A Bazillion Offering Statuettes at the Sanzen-in Temple
Jun	5	Secluded Beach on Ishigaki Island, Part II
Jun	4	Milk Drops
Jun	3	More Geekdome: Twitter OAuth Authentication Routines for Lightroom Plugins
Jun	2	A Better Center-Crosshair Target for Google Earth
Jun	2	Programming in the Stone Age: SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA1 in Pure Lua
Jun	1	Serenity at the Sanzen-in Temple
May 2009
May	31	Pleasant Sunday: Family Bike Ride in Kyoto
May	29	Shocking! IE8 Is Just a Rebranded Version of Firefox
May	28	Insights from a 6yr old: Youth is Wasted on the Young
May	27	A Visit to Kyoto's Sanzen-in Temple, Part II
May	25	Desktop Backgrounds from Kyoto's Sanzen-in Temple
May	25	A Visit to Kyoto's Sanzen-in Temple
May	22	A Wii Bit of Trouble as the Swine Flu Engulfs Kyoto
May	21	Secluded Beach on Ishigaki Island, Part I
May	18	Ishigaki Day 2, Morning: Pineapples and the Tamatorisaki Lookout
May	17	Life is Tenacious: Tiny Ocean Flowers
May	16	Pitch-Black Photography: Moon over the East China Sea
May	15	First Dinner on Ishigaki: Ishigaki Steak Over Hot Coals
May	12	Rough Teas Ahead: Answer to the Linguistic Quiz
May	11	Big Ferns on Ishigaki Island
May	10	Ishigaki: Sunset from the Oganzaki Lighthouse
May	8	Linguistic Quiz: Japanese-to-English Translation Gone Bad
May	7	On The Road to Ishigakijima
May	4	Anthony's "Adventures of Craneman", #1
May	4	Back from Ishigaki
April 2009
Apr	29	Heading South for a Few Days...
Apr	27	Discovering Kyoto's Mt. Yoshida
Apr	26	Query Current Location from Google Earth?
Apr	24	School Prep, and Another Bento
Apr	23	Simple Bamboo Fence
Apr	21	Cherry Blossoms in the Rain at the Heian Shrine, Part 2
Apr	19	Cherry Blossoms in the Rain at the Heian Shrine
Apr	18	Geometric "What am I?" Quiz
Apr	18	Very Green Ferris Wheel
Apr	17	"What am I?" Quiz, Monochromatic Edition
Apr	15	Ram Kulkarni at Kyoto's Shogunzuka Overlook
Apr	14	More From the Awaji Flower Review
Apr	14	Growing Up Quickly: Off To First Grade On His Own
Apr	13	I'm Not Really Sure What To Say...
Apr	12	Little Tamaki-chan in a Field of Violets
Apr	12	A Visit to Western Kyoto's Konzou Temple
Apr	10	A Pleasant Cherry-Blossom Morning in Kyoto
Apr	9	Anthony Starts First Grade
Apr	8	Strange Image Effect that I Don't Understand... Any Ideas?
Apr	8	A Few Flowers in Awaji
Apr	7	A Few Blossoms, A Few Friends
Apr	5	Evening Cherry Blossoms, and some White-Balance Gymnastics
Apr	5	Wet and Gloomy Cherry-Blossom Lightup in Kyoto
Apr	4	Fir Cones (Whatever Those Are)
Apr	3	"What am I?" Quiz: Nature Version
Apr	1	Cherry-Blossom "Snow", and Some So-So Desktop Backgrounds
March 2009
Mar	30	Sneak Peek: New Lightroom Plugin
Mar	29	All Dressed Up in Kinosaki
Mar	27	Baking Birthday Cookies for Mommy
Mar	25	Ice Skating, Shopping, and an Important Bus Ride
Mar	23	Raising Crane in Otsu
Mar	22	Solid Steel "What am I?" Quiz
Mar	20	A Pleasant Day on Yabasekihantou, Part II
Mar	19	A Pleasant Day on Yabasekihantou, Part I
Mar	18	"Looks Like a Bunch of Bars" What-am-I? Quiz
Mar	16	Anthony's Kindergarten Graduation
Mar	15	Bigger than the Biggest Grapefruit You've Ever Seen
Mar	13	Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview, 2009
Mar	10	“Untitled, 2009”
Mar	8	Katz Eye Focus Screen Now Available for the D700!
Mar	7	Happy Birth Day, Felicity Jane Friedl
Mar	4	Kyoto's "I Fall" Tower
Mar	3	What am I? — Industrial Version
Mar	2	Takashima's Shirohige Shrine (sort of)
February 2009
Feb	28	Overexposure and Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof
Feb	25	Okinawa's Atta Terrace Hotel
Feb	23	Curious George All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go
Feb	22	More Thin-Depth-of-Field Fun
Feb	20	Another Milestone on the Road to Growing Up
Feb	19	Anthony's Mad Soccer Skillz
Feb	15	Lightroom Plugin Development: Now With Added Encouragement
Feb	14	Anthony's First Solo Outing
Feb	14	Scenes from the Slopes
Feb	12	Main Gate of the Shirohige Shrine
Feb	11	It's Coming: Time on a Roll
Feb	10	Answer to the Previous "What am I?" Quiz
Feb	10	Anthony's First Ski Experience
Feb	8	Today's (Second) Quiz: What am I?
Feb	8	Spot-Metering Quiz
Feb	8	Spot On: Camera Metering Basics
Feb	6	Another Shogunzuka Sunset over Kyoto
Feb	4	More Bamboo
Feb	3	Lightroom Plugin Development: What To Do When a Hobby Becomes Work
Feb	2	Western-Kyoto Mountain Drive: Bamboo, Nostalgia, and More
Feb	1	Google's "My Maps" : Hidden Trove of Useful Treasures
January 2009
Jan	31	Setsubun Mamemaki: Throwing of the Beans
Jan	31	A Visit to Okinawa's Kouri Island
Jan	29	Where Has the Basic Sense of Right and Wrong Gone?
Jan	29	Hello Kitty Restaurateur
Jan	28	Kyoto Plum-Blossom Status Report: Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
Jan	27	Cold, Wet, and Slippery in Kinosaki
Jan	27	Lightroom Plugin: Run-Any-Command Export Filter
Jan	26	Lightroom Plugin: Catalog Preview-Image Extraction Tool
Jan	25	Quiz: What am I?
Jan	24	Wall-E, a Spoon, a Bear, and a Kid
Jan	21	Coming of Age Day : Final Roundup
Jan	19	Lots of Crows at Kyoto's Shogunzuka Overlook
Jan	16	Late-Afternoon Sun from Kouri Island
Jan	15	Pushing Lowlight-Photography Limits: The Atta Terrace Hotel at Night
Jan	13	Coming of Age Day : Portraits
Jan	12	Japan's Coming of Age Day Holiday Spectacle
Jan	11	2009 Kyoto City Fire Department New-Year Parade (sort of)
Jan	10	In the Ballpark of Hope: Okinawan Grave In the Dark
Jan	9	Japanese Attention to Presentation
Jan	8	Thanks, Sony
Jan	8	Lonely Island in Okinawa (Desktop Background Bonus)
Jan	6	Japan's 2009 Cherry-Blossom Season Off to an Early Start
Jan	3	Common Sense: Blinded by Math
Jan	3	Grab-n-Go Meal

December 2008
Dec	31	Kyoto's Haunted Hua Huan Museum
Dec	31	Photos Appearing in 2008
Dec	29	A Few Kyoto Entrances
Dec	28	Life and Death of a Small Wooden Tower
Dec	27	New Year's Tangerines on Cars, and More....
Dec	23	Kyoto Winter Preview, Part II
Dec	21	Snowy Quiz: What am I?
Dec	20	Trace of Fall Colors Still Remains in Kyoto
Dec	18	Kyoto Winter Preview (Sort Of)
Dec	16	LensAlign Focus-Calibration System
Dec	15	The Wonder of Japan's Open-Air Urinals
Dec	13	Japanese Shirts and Nonsensical English
Dec	12	No Motorcycles Allowed..... Sometimes... Sort of
Dec	11	Today's Photogenic Adventures in Kyoto
Dec	11	Autumn Colors Winding Down
Dec	9	Heavy Lifting: Supporting the Longest Suspension Bridge in the World
Dec	9	Today's Quiz: What am I (besides colorful hexagons)?
Dec	7	Burning Relief: The Outside Walls of Kyoto's Murin'an Garden
Dec	6	A Rant about "Free Photography" Rants
Dec	4	More From the Real Shogunzuka
Dec	3	Recovering Photos from a Corrupt Memory Card with PhotoRec
Dec	2	Thoughts on Japan from a First-Time Visitor
November 2008
Nov	29	A Rocket, Periscope, and other Presents from Grandma and Grandpa
Nov	29	The Real Shougunzuka Kyoto Overlook
Nov	27	Abandoned House Returning To Nature
Nov	27	On The Path To Daimonji: Where the City Ends
Nov	25	Large Wooden Gate Repair
Nov	24	Playing at BørneLund with Gen
Nov	23	Mountain Drive to Hiyoshi Dam (with Desktop-Background Bonuses)
Nov	22	Visiting the Shrine in Kibune with Thomas
Nov	21	The Neighbor's Tree
Nov	19	Eizan Train Line's "Fall-Foliage Tunnel" Lightup
Nov	19	Kyoto's Annual Neutering of the Trees
Nov	18	Not Quite Giving Up on Sunsets..... Yet
Nov	18	Thanks Dmitry, The Post is Visible Now!
Nov	17	Anthony's Birthday Helicopter And Some Creativity
Nov	16	More From the Eikando Temple Foliage Lightup
Nov	15	How I Spent My Saturday in Kyoto
Nov	14	More Kids in Kimono: Still Cute
Nov	13	Amazing Technology of Old: Large Wooden Gear
Nov	13	Jerks At Gizmodo: Way Uncool
Nov	12	Kids in Kimono: Cute Enough to Eat
Nov	12	Today's Sunset in Kyoto: Ho-Hum & Yawn
Nov	11	Still Waiting for Fall Colors in Kyoto
Nov	11	Anthony's Interesting Style Choice
Nov	11	Today's Sunset: the Deepest, Truest Orange I Have Ever Seen
Nov	11	Soft-Focus Flower Arrangement
Nov	9	Ordination of Sister Yukari Saikawa
Nov	8	Visiting Kibune with Thomas
Nov	7	Thomas Hertel in Kyoto: Taste of Fall at Dusk
Nov	3	Mommy Teaches Anthony to Jump from a Swing
Nov	2	Seeking Fall Colors in the Mountains
Nov	1	Fish That Looks Like an Apple Pie
October 2008
Oct	29	Finally, Geoencoding in Lightroom! Announcing my GPS-Support Plugin
Oct	27	Anthony's English Homework
Oct	26	Anthony's Birthday Helicopter
Oct	23	Anthony Turns Six
Oct	21	Serendipitous Fun with Adobe Lightroom
Oct	21	PuriPuri-chan: Swallowtail Butterfly From Start to Finish
Oct	21	iFail: iPhone Photo Viewer is Mostly Worthless
Oct	18	Lightroom "GPS Proximity Search" Plugin
Oct	18	Note to Mommy II
Oct	16	Kyoto 2008 Fall Foliage Preview, Part III
Oct	15	Anthony's First All-by-Himself Letter
Oct	14	Anthony's Helicopter Ride
Oct	12	Kid Play: "Tractor Treader" Blow Up Rolly Thing
Oct	11	Perfect Weather for a Snooze on a Park Bench
Oct	10	Kyoto 2008 Fall Foliage Preview, Part II
Oct	9	Pop Dancer
Oct	8	Waterfall Wall
Oct	6	Backing Up My Photos With Lightroom and Zenfolio
Oct	6	New Server Hardware
Oct	4	Random Pictures from Around Japan
Oct	3	Modern Woodworking, Circa 1830
Oct	1	Updates on My PayPal and Apple Woes
September 2008
Sep	30	Slippery Green Slidy Day of Fun
Sep	28	Magic and Go Carts at Shiga's "Blume-no-Oka"
Sep	27	Car and a Nice Sunset
Sep	26	Apple Customer Care: Making Strides in Automated Cluelessness
Sep	25	Kyoto Fall Foliage Preview
Sep	24	D700 at Dusk: Bike Ride, Etc.
Sep	24	The Image of Cute Kids, Japanese Style
Sep	22	Memory Lane: My First Macro Attempts
Sep	20	Camera Tutorial: How to Ruin Your Shots (Before You Even Take Them!)
Sep	20	Lightroom 2.1 (Release Candidate)
Sep	19	A Few More D700 f/1.2 Night Shots
Sep	18	Visiting Joan in Vancouver
Sep	17	Movie Shoot
Sep	17	"Flash Sync Speed" and Other Mysteries Explained
Sep	16	Power-Ranger Anthony
Sep	15	Impossible Photography: No Light, No Tripod, No Hope. D700 and a 50mm f/1.2
Sep	13	Welcome Baby Jena
Sep	13	I Now Love my iPhone
Sep	12	More Playground Fun
Sep	11	I Got an iPhone, but...
Sep	10	View from the Window Seat
Sep	9	Back in Kyoto (2008 Edition)
Sep	6	One Intersection, Two Starbucks
Sep	5	Congrats! My Sister is Expecting a Baby
Sep	4	Surreal (and exceedingly unpleasant) PayPal Experience
Sep	4	Nikon D3 Shutter Release in Super Slow Motion
Sep	2	A Short, Wet Trip Up Whistler Mountain
Sep	1	The Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver
August 2008
Aug	31	Old Farm
Aug	29	Cattail and Clouds
Aug	28	Kid Play in Whistler: Bungee Trampoline
Aug	28	The Four Seasons Resort, Whistler
Aug	26	What am I?
Aug	24	"Lost Lake" Bike Ride in Whistler
Aug	23	"Deluxe Executive Suite" at the Four Seasons, Whistler
Aug	21	Vancouver Aquarium
Aug	20	Visiting Vancouver
Aug	18	Jogging with Grandpa, Again
Aug	18	Leaves Stripped Clean
Aug	17	Sharp-Dressed (Five-year-old) Man
Aug	16	Life and Death of a Sand Castle, Part III: Destruction
Aug	15	Life and Death of a Sand Castle, Part II: Expansion
Aug	13	Life and Death of a Sand Castle: Part I
Aug	12	Feeding the Birds
Aug	11	More Dynamic Clouds, and a Small Rainbow
Aug	10	Pretty Clouds, and the Frustration of Trying to Photograph Them
Aug	9	Boston Globe's The Big Picture, and the Photography Olympics
Aug	8	Coloring With Grandma
Aug	7	Jogging with Grandpa
Aug	6	Why Does "Brightness" Wash Colors to White?
Aug	6	"Don't Confuse Me With The Facts": Image Linking and Distribution
Aug	5	Brilliant Flower, Not-so-Brilliant Processing
Aug	4	A Merry-go-Round, Fill Flash, and Too Fast a Shutter
Aug	3	Midlife Chryslers in Concert
Aug	1	Funky Joy With Adobe Lightroom
July 2008
Jul	31	Not Really Singing in the Rain
Jul	30	More Cousin Play: Big Playground in Stow
Jul	30	Bubble Play with Aunt Natalie
Jul	29	Lots of New Toys with Lightroom 2.0
Jul	28	Darn, Forgot to Bring My Camera
Jul	27	More Play with Cousin Josh
Jul	26	In Ohio for the Summer
Jul	24	Heading to The States...
Jul	23	Making a Difference, One Day at a Time
Jul	23	Tomato Harvest 2008
Jul	22	River Play with Greg
Jul	21	Hot and Lazy Summer Day in Kyoto
Jul	20	Hyperaccessorized Car
Jul	20	Yoko-chan's Singing Event
Jul	19	Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Jul	19	Pretty Pictures: Announcing My Photostreams
Jul	17	The Mystery of Japanese Road Repair
Jul	16	Camping with Anthony: Final Wrapup
Jul	14	Nine-Dollar Cup of Coffee
Jul	13	Origami Water Lily
Jul	12	The Beauty of a Weathered Shrine Roof
Jul	10	Pretty Flowers, A Fly, and Some Onions
Jul	10	Jeffrey's Lightroom Goodies (Plugins and Tools)
Jul	8	"Temporarily Closed"
Jul	7	Anthony's New Sparkling Gleaming Shoes
Jul	7	Water Play From Bygone Summers
Jul	6	Water Play at Gen's House
Jul	5	Noritake China's "N4" Series
Jul	4	Today's Quiz: What am I?
Jul	3	My Visit to a Japanese High School
Jul	2	Stroll By the Canal
Jul	1	Nikon D700 Announced
Jul	1	Egregious Waste In The Name Of.... well, I'm not quite sure
June 2008
Jun	30	A Few Polarization-Filter Examples
Jun	28	The Kamo no Shirabe Cafe in Takashima
Jun	28	Kyoto, From Shogunzuka, at Night
Jun	26	Zippy Fast Bamboo
Jun	26	Little Snail Friends at the Giouji Temple
Jun	25	Watching a Helicopter Take Off
Jun	23	Fire vs. Building: Fire Wins
Jun	22	Kids Are Much Smarter Than You Think
Jun	22	Life Stages of a Dandelion
Jun	21	City of Kusatsu's "Water Forest"
Jun	20	Water Lily
Jun	19	Fushimi Inari Shrine: Generations
Jun	18	"HDR", and Why I Don't Do It
Jun	16	Folding Fans
Jun	15	Higashiyama Hike: Kiyomizu Temple
Jun	13	Geometric Richness in Kanazawa Station
Jun	13	Kanazawa Station: Modern Interpretation of Traditional Japan
Jun	12	Playing with Gen
Jun	11	Hiking Close to Home: Higashiyama
Jun	10	Kotsuiri — "Placing of the Bones"
Jun	9	Today's Quiz: What am I?
Jun	7	Camping with Anthony, Day 6: Amanohashidate
Jun	4	Finally Getting Our Money's Worth Out Of This Kid
Jun	3	More from the Parrington Nuptials
Jun	2	Kevin and Yoko Parrington
May 2008
May	31	Fushimi Inari Shrine: Foxes, Treasure, and More....
May	30	More from the Fushimi Inari Shrine
May	28	Kyoto's Dazzling Fushimi Inari Shrine
May	26	Camping with Anthony: Day 5 (Sort of)
May	24	Pink Puffy Flower Puffs
May	23	New Captioning for my Lightroom Plugins
May	22	Camping with Anthony, Day 4
May	20	Panning a Timelapse with Lightroom and Perl
May	19	Noh Theater, and Missed Opportunities
May	17	Camping with Anthony, Day 3
May	16	10th-Anniversary Fish Pie (Really)
May	14	Impromptu River Play with Akiko-chan
May	13	Camping with Anthony, Day 2: Sunset with New Friends
May	11	Camping with Anthony, Day 2: Getting Wet
May	10	Camping with Anthony, Day 2: Early-Morning Walk
May	9	Hanging Wisteria at the Sandai Shrine, Kusatsu-City, Japan
May	9	Thank You For Finding My Phone
May	8	Something Fishy About This Bird
May	8	Camping with Anthony: Day 1
May	6	Back From Five Days of Camping
May	1	Going Camping for a Few Days
April 2008
Apr	30	One Year Ago: Furano (Hokkaido, Japan)
Apr	27	Tasty Keihan
Apr	27	Kine Imai: 1924 - 2008
Apr	24	Intelligence: Your Best Training Way of Defeating Everything
Apr	23	Heavy Wooden Entrance To Kyoto's Nijo Castle
Apr	22	Pleasant Day at the Imperial Palace
Apr	22	Preset Template Tokens in My Lightroom Plugins
Apr	21	A Pleasant Day Along the Kamo River
Apr	20	Toushoumen: a Different Style of Noodle
Apr	18	Fun Spooky-Tree Swing on Amami
Apr	17	Renewing Anthony's Passport
Apr	15	Fluffy Pink, a Big Gray Bird, and Excellent Mexican Food
Apr	11	The Hanami was Nice, But...
Apr	11	Sigh, Lost My Cellphone
Apr	11	Lightroom 1.4.1 Released
Apr	10	Ugly in Pink: Not All Blossoms Are Created Equal
Apr	9	Gorgeous Cherry Blossoms at Kyoto's Old Imperial Palace
Apr	7	Just Like That, Kyoto's Cherry-Blossom Season Ends
Apr	6	Cherry-Blossom Joie de Vivre in Kyoto
Apr	6	Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Lightup, 2008
Apr	5	Cherry-Blossom Full Bloom Hits Kyoto
Apr	5	On the Beach at the Bashayama-mura Resort, Amami Ooshima
Apr	3	Sakura from my Kitchen Window
Apr	3	Venting About My (sort of) Cursed Vacation
Apr	2	Lightroom 2.0 beta Released
March 2008
Mar	29	Pink Sakura, Green Fuzzies, some Brass, and a Motorcycle Cop
Mar	27	Amami Tour Guide: Hirozou Yasuda
Mar	25	It Has Begun: Cherry Blossoms in Kyoto
Mar	24	Kitano Tenmangu Shrine Part II
Mar	24	Late to the Party: Plum Blossoms at the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
Mar	23	Spooky Tree on Amami's Kakeroma-jima Island
Mar	22	Playing in the River with Gen
Mar	21	Kyoto Higashiyama "Hanatoro" Lightup Event, Part II
Mar	21	Hinamatsuri Display Made by a Five Year Old
Mar	20	Ropes of Origami Cranes
Mar	18	Kyoto Higashiyama "Hanatoro" Lightup Event
Mar	18	Overwhelmed: an Embarrassment of Riches
Mar	15	Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview: Live From the Imperial Palace
Mar	14	Cherry Blossom Timelapse: Fleeting Floral Fireworks
Mar	14	Lightroom 1.4: Minor Update
Mar	13	Kyoto Station, Part II
Mar	12	Homemade Kinako: Soybeans, a Mortar, Pestle, and a Five Year Old
Mar	10	Out of Season: Kenrokuen Gardens of Kanazawa
Mar	9	Anthony Riding a Horse, Bike, and More....
Mar	8	Newlyweds, Etc. in Kanazawa
Mar	6	Kyoto Plum-Blossom Preview
Mar	4	Desktop Backgrounds: Bamboo, Stones, and Coral
Mar	2	Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview
Mar	1	Selective Focus
February 2008
Feb	29	Snowy Gardens of the Heian Shrine, Part III
Feb	28	City of Otsu's "Yumekko" Play Land
Feb	27	Snowy Gardens of the Heian Shrine, Part II
Feb	25	Snowy Gardens of the Heian Shrine, Part I
Feb	24	Snowy Round Trip to the Heian Shrine (with Desktop-Background Bonus)
Feb	23	Snowy Bridge in Kyoto
Feb	22	Anthony and George
Feb	20	Second-Tier Photos from June 3, 2007
Feb	19	On Photography and Rights
Feb	18	Amazing Snow at the Heian Shrine
Feb	18	Crow and Snowy Trees: Is This Photo Interesting?
Feb	17	My Tryout For the United States Secret Service
Feb	17	Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 Zoom Now Available
Feb	16	My Photo and Blog-Writing Workflow
Feb	15	Amami's Mangroves
Feb	14	More Snow in Kyoto: Pretty Pictures This Time
Feb	13	More Snow, but Less Drama
Feb	12	A Few More Pics From Yesterday
Feb	12	D200 "Black Frame Syndrome" Solved
Feb	11	Anthony Can Ride a Bike
Feb	10	Heavy Snow in Kyoto
Feb	10	"We Interrupt This Program...."
Feb	7	Some Old Posts From When We Moved to Japan
Feb	6	Intense Burn: Shinto Rite at the Heian Shrine
Feb	5	Artsy-Fartsy in Kyoto, at f/1.2
Feb	4	Old Coral Walls of Amami
Feb	4	Hot Stuff
Feb	3	Setsubun and Mamemaki: Driving out the Demons
Feb	2	Dynamic Skies in Amami
Feb	2	Multiple-Monitor Goodness: My New Eizo Monitor
January 2008
Jan	31	Pretty Flowers
Jan	30	Inside the Bullet Train
Jan	29	Odd Bridge Loopy Road Thing
Jan	27	Roppongi Hills Dog Boutique, Etc.
Jan	26	Anthony is Thankful
Jan	26	Monet and her Mommy
Jan	24	Speedy MacBook Repair
Jan	24	Perspectives on Ultimate Frisbee
Jan	22	Lightroom Plugin Updates, and a New Piglet
Jan	22	Lightroom 1 "Run Any Command" Piglet
Jan	21	Screwed: My Story of Laptop Self-Repair
Jan	20	Cooking Play
Jan	19	Remote-Island Bed-and-Breakfast: "Horizon Club"
Jan	19	Amazingly Large Drifts of Snow
Jan	17	Snugglies for Trees, and More
Jan	17	Anthony's Recent Bentos
Jan	16	Aburi-Mochi: Grilled Mochi on Skewers
Jan	15	"Piglets", Lightroom Plugin Extensions
Jan	15	Lightroom 1 Export Plugin Plugins: "Piglets"
Jan	15	Extremely Blue Light Display
Jan	13	Another Look at Anthony Serving
Jan	13	Cultural Awareness
Jan	12	Colorful Plants on the Amami Islands
Jan	12	Making Udon Noodles from Scratch
Jan	10	Old Japanese Lock
Jan	9	Ninja
Jan	9	Really, Really Windy Days in Amami
Jan	7	Anthony's PlayRail Train Set
Jan	6	Anthony Serves At Mass
Jan	6	Amami Islands, Southern Japan
Jan	5	Lightroom Plugin "FormatMessageW failed" Error: Possible Solution from Alexander Kiel
Jan	4	New Look for my Blog
Jan	3	Our 2008 New Year's Card

December 2007
Dec	29	Winter in Kyoto: Lotsa Red Berries
Dec	29	Photos Appearing in 2007
Dec	29	Camera Sensor Dust Reference Page
Dec	29	Our Christmas Present to Ourselves
Dec	27	More Presents, More Cheers, and a Helicopter
Dec	26	Anatomy of a Present Unwrapping
Dec	25	Our Christmas Tree; Our Christmas
Dec	24	Christmas Eve, 2007
Dec	22	Efficient Use of Land
Dec	22	Accessing Yahoo! Maps from Adobe Lightroom
Dec	22	Old House of Bamboo and Mud
Dec	20	Anthony Writes His Name
Dec	19	FotoSharp 16" Camera RainCoat
Dec	17	Just Released: Picasa Web Export Plugin for Lightroom
Dec	17	Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Picasa Web
Dec	17	Anthony's Drawings Move to the Next Level
Dec	15	Sunrise in Takamastu, Japan
Dec	14	Mountain of Shells
Dec	12	Orange Sunset in Kyoto
Dec	11	Stupid Macro Tricks: Photography at 35-Times Magnification
Dec	10	The Most Difficult Aspect of Photographic Lighting
Dec	9	The "Elf Yourself" School of Fine Print
Dec	8	The 38-Story "Otsu Mary"
Dec	6	Anthony Playing Among the Fall Colors
Dec	5	Nikon D200 "Black Frame Syndrome" (with a desktop-background bonus)
Dec	3	Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style
Dec	1	Making the Best of Bright Light in Fall-Color Photography
November 2007
Nov	30	Ram Kulkarni
Nov	28	A Kinki Drive: The No. 2 Keihan Expressway
Nov	27	Hamamoto Bonesetting Clinic
Nov	25	Wall of "Unrolled" Bamboo (with Desktop Backgrounds)
Nov	24	Anthony and Friends Among the Colors
Nov	21	Touch of Color from the Nanzen Temple
Nov	21	SmugMug/Zenfolio/Flickr Export-to-Lightroom Plugins Released
Nov	20	Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Flickr
Nov	20	Lightroom Export Plugin For Flickr (sort of)
Nov	18	Bonanza of Fall-Foliage Desktop Backgrounds
Nov	17	How to Install an Export Plugin in Lightroom 1
Nov	16	Lightroom 1.3 & Export Plugins for SmugMug and Zenfolio
Nov	16	Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for SmugMug
Nov	16	Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Zenfolio
Nov	15	The Most-Excellent Architecture of Kyoto Station
Nov	14	Rare Shinto Shrine-Closing Ceremony
Nov	13	Photo Essay: Why I Hate Living in Kyoto
Nov	12	Fiery Momiji & Kousuke Fukui
Nov	11	Two Japan-Related Desktop Backgrounds
Nov	9	Cameras in the Park
Nov	8	Lots of Rock at Osaka Castle Park
Nov	7	Paper Airplanes in the Park
Nov	7	Today's Quiz: What am I?
Nov	6	Chestnut on a Bed of Moss (with desktop-background bonus)
Nov	5	Impromptu Portraits in the Park
Nov	5	Cinderella on the Train
Nov	4	Another Outing at Dusk
Nov	3	First Taste of Kyoto's Autumn
Nov	1	Itsukushima Shrine at Low Tide
October 2007
Oct	31	Calendar-Template-Building Script, Version 3
Oct	31	Light — Science and Magic
Oct	29	Hello-Kitty Van
Oct	28	Miyajima at Low Tide
Oct	26	Anthony Turns Five, Part II
Oct	23	Anthony Turns Five
Oct	22	Cute Origami Puppies
Oct	21	Today's Quiz: What am I?
Oct	20	Boxed In: New House and Parking Lot
Oct	17	Five-Storied Pagoda on Miyajima
Oct	16	Macro Photograhpy and Reverse-Lens Basics
Oct	15	Pesky Burrs and Extreme Macro Photography
Oct	14	If It's Not in Frame, It Doesn't Exist
Oct	12	Ikebana, Part II
Oct	11	Miyajima: Approach, Path, and Gates
Oct	11	Kyoto Fall-Color Preview, Part III
Oct	11	Trying My Hand at Product Photography
Oct	9	Preschooler Ikebana (Flower Arranging)
Oct	8	Why I Shoot Raw: Recovering From Disasters
Oct	6	Main Gate of the Itsukushima Shrine, at Night
Oct	5	Preschool Car Repair
Oct	4	Miyajima's Mt. Misen
Oct	3	Bench in Miyajima
Oct	3	Kousuke Atari in Concert, Itsukushima Shrine, Miyajima Japan
Oct	1	Back from Miyajima
September 2007
Sep	29	Kyoto Fall-Color Preview, Part II
Sep	28	My Visit with a Nikon D3
Sep	26	Calendar-Template-Building Script, Version 3b1
Sep	26	High Performance Web Sites
Sep	26	Discovering Photoshop Internal Font Names
Sep	24	Kids' Colorful Tea Bottles
Sep	23	Another View of the Rice Terraces
Sep	22	D200 "Dead Battery Syndrome" )-:
Sep	21	Tripod Stability Tests, Part III
Sep	20	Tripod Stability Tests: on Shutter Speed
Sep	19	Kyoto Fall-Color Preview
Sep	18	Tripod Stability Tests, Part II
Sep	17	Tripod Stability Tests, Part I
Sep	17	Considerations for Building and Using a Tripod
Sep	16	The Rice Harvest, Old-School
Sep	15	Singing in the Rain
Sep	14	History Written in Brick
Sep	14	Lightroom 1.2 Released
Sep	13	Andrei Zmievski's Photoblog
Sep	12	Perfect Focus, and a Surprise
Sep	12	The Rice Harvest
Sep	11	Colorful Patterns Under the Curtains
Sep	10	The Japanese Beer Market
Sep	8	Tiered Rice Paddies
Sep	7	Playing Among the Rice Paddies
Sep	7	Zak Braverman's Blog
Sep	6	Amazing Rainbow in Kyoto Tonight
Sep	1	"Painting" with Painter Essentials 3, and Photoshop
August 2007
Aug	31	Present from Maho-kun
Aug	30	Unbridled Excitement with a Pop-up Pirate
Aug	28	Back in Kyoto
Aug	26	Josh and Anthony
Aug	25	Toys Sandblasted by Heavy Rain
Aug	24	My New Monopod
Aug	23	Kids Love Trains
Aug	23	Nikon D300 / D3 Announcements
Aug	22	How To Gross Out Your Sister
Aug	22	Katz Eye Focusing Screen for a Nikon D200
Aug	20	Scenes From a Fallen Tree, Part II
Aug	19	Blanket of Trees
Aug	17	Tripod, by Gitzo and Really Right Stuff
Aug	16	Kid in the Country: Gardening
Aug	14	Ah, Shucks! Anthony's First Fresh Sweet Corn
Aug	13	Anthony's First Model-Rocket Launch
Aug	11	Clearing Away a Tree Blown Down by a Storm
Aug	11	Kids Say the Most Amazing Things
Aug	11	Really Wet And Scruffy Birds on the Veranda
Aug	10	Welcome, Luke Friedl (My New Nephew)
Aug	9	New GPS Unit: Garmin eTrex Legend HCx
Aug	8	Scruffy Birds on the Veranda
Aug	7	Kid in the Country: Binking with Grandpa
Aug	7	Magnesium Citrate
Aug	2	Spending Time With Grandma and Grandpa
July 2007
Jul	30	"Trust Me"
Jul	29	Anthony Discovers Fireflies
Jul	26	A Different Wall at Kyoto's Giouji Temple
Jul	25	New Toy, Old Sweater
Jul	25	Anthony Says "Hi" to Mommy on a Sit n' Spin™
Jul	24	Kid in the Country: Golf
Jul	23	Kid in the Country: Farm
Jul	23	Hardworking Kid with a Toy Backhoe
Jul	22	Our Flight from Kyoto to Ohio
Jul	20	Blog Table of Contents: List of Posts
Jul	17	Anthony Inspects a Butterfly
Jul	16	Views of Kyoto From Shougun-zuka
Jul	15	A Tasty Melon
Jul	14	Feasting Like Indulgent Royalty on Matsutake Mushrooms
Jul	13	Kyoto's Miyagawa-Cho District
Jul	13	Daimonji Fire Pits, Part 2
Jul	12	Daimonji's Hidoko Fire Pits
Jul	11	Great Wet Heron
Jul	9	Big Burgeoning Mushrooms, Boys, and Bugs
Jul	8	Anthony's Friend's New Sister
Jul	7	A Few Unremarkable Fern Pictures
Jul	6	More From the Giouji Temple
Jul	5	Kyoto's Okazaki Area, From Mt. Daimonji
Jul	3	Silly Mountaintop Lunch With Kana-Chan
Jul	3	New Tricks with the MacBook Mouse
Jul	1	Mt. Daimonji Hike
Jul	1	Cooling Off with Pastel Cherry-Blossom Desktop Backgrounds
June 2007
Jun	28	Vine and Bamboo, Green Edition (With Desktop Backgrounds)
Jun	28	Freaky "Artsy" Sharpening with Lightroom 1.1
Jun	27	Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder (for Lightroom 1.1+)
Jun	27	Lightroom 1.1 Released
Jun	27	Rivers of Noodles in Kibune
Jun	26	Lunch Over the River in Kibune
Jun	25	Yet More from Picturesque Biei (Hokkaido, Japan)
Jun	23	An Introduction to Kyoto's Hougon'in Temple
Jun	23	Rainy Day in Arashiyama
Jun	21	Lawrence Solum, and Random Pics from Arashiyama
Jun	21	Mosses at the Giouji Temple, Kyoto Japan
Jun	19	Anthony the Valet
Jun	17	Leaf on a Wall: Giouji Temple Desktop Background
Jun	16	Giouji Temple Part 2: Gate and Walls
Jun	16	An Introduction to Kyoto's Giouji Temple
Jun	14	Tiniest Train Station
Jun	14	On the Way to the Nanzen Temple....
Jun	12	More From Nanzenji (with desktop background bonuses)
Jun	11	Medical Science Confirms: I am Full of Hot Air
Jun	10	Family Moments at the Nanzen Temple
Jun	10	Furano Wine House Park
Jun	8	More From the Kiyomizu Temple
Jun	7	Master Kyoto Sweet Maker Ji'ichiro Kunieta
Jun	6	Kibune Shrine (Sort Of)
Jun	5	Aunt Jeannette Still in Kyoto
Jun	4	KFC and Verena in Kyoto
Jun	3	Aunt Jeannette In Kyoto
Jun	2	Old Wood-Veneer Siding (Desktop Background)
Jun	1	More Biei Countryside
May 2007
May	30	Yoko-chan's Daddy, Unplugged
May	29	Actual Cherries, and Long (Daytime) Exposures
May	29	A Randomly Photographed Stroll in Kyoto
May	28	Twisted English in the News
May	27	Preparing a Paddy for Rice Seedlings
May	26	Purple Irises in the Mountains
May	25	Berries, Tree, Goat, River, and a Road Sign
May	25	Update on Color Spaces: Windows is Color Stupid
May	24	Lightroom is to Photographers what Photoshop is to Photographs
May	24	Pink Flower and Green Canal
May	23	Lunch with a Great Blue Heron
May	22	More Snow in May
May	22	Noisy Frogs in the Rice Field
May	21	Buncha' Flowers in a Pot
May	20	Ouch!, Excellent Multilingual Wordplay
May	19	Still Forsaken: Kyoto University's Kumano Dorm
May	18	Revisiting Kyoto Temples in Autumn
May	18	New Furano Prince Hotel, Furano Hokkaido Japan
May	16	Deeply Rich Colors at the Kyoto Botanical Gardens
May	15	Little Toy Cars and Big Toy Hype
May	15	More "Other Colors of Spring"
May	14	Solid Copper Rain Gutter
May	13	Abandoned Houses in Hokkaido
May	12	A Few More Blossom Pictures From Yodogawa Kasen Park
May	11	Heian Shrine from Afar
May	11	Good Photographers, Bad Writers
May	10	Feast Fit for a Monkey
May	10	Sunset From The Ferry
May	10	Car Ferry to Hokkaido: Our Trip on the Suisen
May	9	The Kyoto Keage Water-Treatment Plant
May	8	Azaleas at the Keage Water-Treatment Plant
May	7	Stinky Feet
May	6	Pretty Fields in Biei, Hokkaido, and the Price of Photography
May	6	Freaky View of London via Google Maps
May	5	Koinobori in Biei, Hokkaido
May	2	Snow in May: Visiting Hokkaido
April 2007
Apr	27	Kids Love Bubbles
Apr	26	Feasting Assassin Bug
Apr	26	Koinobori Bento
Apr	25	"A Buncha' Stones" Desktop Background
Apr	25	10 Gallons of Blossoms on a 5-Gallon Branch
Apr	24	Renewing my Visa with Bill Bryson
Apr	24	Computer for a Four-Year-Old
Apr	23	Year #2: It's Still About the Bento
Apr	23	Doubling Up on Grammar Checks
Apr	22	Getting Ready for Summer, in Kibune
Apr	21	Heavy Industries on the Kitchen Table
Apr	20	Freaky Raw Processing: From Sunset to Moonrise with Adobe Lightroom
Apr	20	Unavoidable Decisions with Yahoo! Messenger
Apr	18	A Sunset, and Funky Water-Written Patterns in the Sand
Apr	17	Getting Kanji Working in Emacs: Mule-UCS Startup Hook
Apr	16	Brandy & Orange Kit-Kat Candy Bar
Apr	15	"Entrance" means "Not Out", and a freaky plant (sort of)
Apr	14	Anthony Gets a BBQ Set
Apr	13	Chocolate Cake and Milk
Apr	12	Lots of Blossoms, but still Lots of Buds
Apr	12	Enjoying the Cherry Blossoms
Apr	11	Sakura and the Main Gate of the Heian Shrine (With Desktop Background)
Apr	10	Two Anthony Projects: Security Gate & Impromptu Airplane
Apr	9	Amazing Cherry Blossoms in North-East Kyoto
Apr	8	Easter Cherry Blossoms in Kyoto
Apr	6	Other Colors of Spring
Apr	5	Night Long-Exposure Gion Cherry Blossoms
Apr	4	Nighttime Long-Exposure Cherry Blossoms
Apr	3	Renewing my Visa to Remain in Japan
Apr	3	Cherry Blossoms in the Middle of Three Rivers
March 2007
Mar	31	Pictures of People Taking Cherry-Blossom Pictures
Mar	30	Night Cherry Blossoms in the Gion area of Kyoto
Mar	29	Two-year old using chopsticks
Mar	28	Tasty Squid Pizza, and other Culinary Delights
Mar	28	More Cherry Blossoms from Daigo Temple
Mar	26	Sleepyhead
Mar	25	Kyoto's Road to Nowhere
Mar	24	Getting Started With Cherry-Blossom Pictures (with a Desktop Background Bonus)
Mar	24	Top 10 Worst Major Releases of Microsoft® Windows®
Mar	23	Golden Poo: Feces of Financial Fortune
Mar	23	Funky Icicles and Snowy Mountains
Mar	18	Anthony at the Park with my Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8
Mar	17	Anthony as a Delivery Man
Mar	13	Jeffrey's Lightroom Configuration Manager
Mar	11	Slighly Odd Weather in Kyoto Today
Mar	11	Kyoto City Half Marathon
Mar	9	Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 Zoom
Mar	2	Gymnastics, Preschool Style
Mar	2	More on the Difficulties of Photographing Volleyball
February 2007
Feb	28	Volleyball Is a Difficult Sport to Photograph
Feb	26	Japan can be so behind the times
Feb	23	Two "Appeals to me for some reason" Shots
Feb	20	Adobe Lightroom: Custom Metadata-Viewer Presets
Feb	19	Lightroom 1.0 is out; is it done enough for you?
Feb	17	More on Digital Color Spaces: a Reply to Chris MacAskill
Feb	14	First Blossoms of 2007
Feb	9	Funky Flowers at the Kyoto Botanical Gardens
Feb	2	Women as "Child-Bearing Machines"
Feb	2	Petting Zoo Comes to School
January 2007
Jan	29	Adobe Lightroom 1.x Resources
Jan	29	Adobe Lightroom Version 1.0
Jan	29	Anthony's Vending Machine
Jan	28	More Photos by Katsunori Shimada
Jan	27	Anthony Made a Bento for Mommy
Jan	26	Bento Lunches, Served Fresh Daily
Jan	25	Kyoto's New Light Rail System.... Sort Of
Jan	25	Anthony Drawing: Family and Cats
Jan	24	A Map of Anthony's Day
Jan	23	Announcing My Autofocus Test Chart
Jan	23	Jeffrey's Autofocus Test Chart
Jan	22	Unplugged: Anthony's Acoustic Guitar
Jan	20	On the Special Nature of "Blogging"
Jan	19	My Lens Focus Issues Are Fixed, or "I Told You So"
Jan	18	My "Index of Photos" Pages
Jan	16	Wishing for an in-place REPLACE in MySQL
Jan	15	Forsaken: First Look at Kyoto University's Kumano Dorm
Jan	14	Vine and Bamboo Again (With Desktop Backgrounds)
Jan	12	Japanese Lawn Mower
Jan	11	Will the Real "iPhone" Please Stand Up
Jan	11	Thoughts on the iPhone and Phone Usability
Jan	10	Missing You, My Sweet, on Our Anniversary
Jan	9	Random Pics From Our Ise Trip
Jan	8	Wifi Digital Picture Frame
Jan	6	More Anthony Art: Grass is Growing
Jan	3	Funky Spectral Highlights in My Bokeh
Jan	2	American Food in Kyoto
Jan	1	More on Raising a Bilingual Child
Jan	1	Our 2007 New Year's Card

December 2006
Dec	31	Food at a Japanese Seaside Ryokan
Dec	31	Photos Appearing in 2006
Dec	31	Anthony in a Yukata
Dec	28	The Pure Joy of a Child
Dec	27	Flashing Lights in my Rear-View Mirror
Dec	26	My New Computer is Fast
Dec	25	Our Christmas Eve
Dec	22	Some Color To Counter Feeling the Blues
Dec	21	"Elf Yourself" and Contractual Fine Print
Dec	20	A Cold, and Keeping One's Word
Dec	16	Anthony The Star of His School Play
Dec	15	Calendar-Template-Building Script, Version 2
Dec	11	My Day: Poop and a Trip to Osaka
Dec	10	Yahoo! Photos Really Sucks
Dec	9	More Messy Faces, and a Crying Boy
Dec	9	Anthony and Tall Grass
Dec	8	NEF, Color Space Settings, and Embedded JPGs
Dec	7	More Anthony Art
Dec	6	Colorful Leaves and Colorful Kimono
Dec	5	Ordered a New Computer
Dec	5	Photoshop CS2 Calendar-Template-Building Script
Dec	3	Anthony's Attention to Biological Detail
Dec	3	The Most Ironic News Headline
Dec	2	Photoshop's "Darken" Blend Mode (and more fall-foliage desktops)
Dec	1	Kid + Chocolate Cake = Messy Face
November 2006
Nov	30	The Color of Kyoto — Desktop Background
Nov	29	Fostering a Dislike of Sweets
Nov	25	Relaxing Amid the Fall Colors
Nov	25	Fence and Vine
Nov	24	This Coffee Makes Me Sad
Nov	23	Outside the Konpukuji Temple
Nov	22	Kyoto Fall Foliage Desktops
Nov	22	Internet Explorer's Selective Understanding of CSS
Nov	21	Fall 2006 at Enkouji Temple
Nov	19	Digital Image Color Spaces
Nov	17	Kyoto Autumn Foliage (Sort Of)
Nov	16	Pictures from the Summer: Ohio
Nov	13	Anthony a "Ring Boy" at Fumie's Friend's Wedding
Nov	11	Weddings and the Heian Shrine
Nov	8	Focus Charts and Retesting my Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VR
Nov	6	Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VR Lens
October 2006
Oct	31	Sigma 30mm f/1.4 Prime Lens
Oct	29	Still *More* Presents for Anthony
Oct	24	More Birthday Presents for Anthony
Oct	23	Anthony Turns Four
Oct	21	A Dying Breed: Funny English on Japanese Signs
Oct	12	My Short Trip to America
Oct	10	Another Photo-Tech Writeup: NEF Compression
Oct	10	A Qualitative Analysis of NEF Compression
Oct	5	Maximum Aperture of the Nikon 18-200mm Throughout its Zoom Range
Oct	3	Creative Street-Sweeper Design
Oct	3	Digital-Image Color Spaces, Table of Contents
Oct	3	Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 1: Introduction
Oct	3	Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 2: Test Images
Oct	3	Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 3: History of Color Mis-Management
Oct	3	Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 4: Color Management
Oct	3	Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 5: Chromaticity Diagrams
Oct	3	Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 6: Design Tradeoffs
Oct	3	Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 7: Recommendations and Links
September 2006
Sep	29	How to Sell A House Quickly, and At a Profit
Sep	15	Back to the Future: On the Terms "NFA," "DFA," and "Regular Expression"
Sep	15	Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote
Sep	14	MRE3 Reviewed on Slashdot
Sep	13	Better Search-Engine Indexing of My Blog
Sep	13	“Found” Photos From Ages Past
Sep	11	First Bento of the New Semester
Sep	11	A 3.25 Billion-Dollar “Typo” (Luckly, not mine!)
Sep	9	Adding Borders to Photos
Sep	7	Looking Forward to Autumn in Kyoto
Sep	6	Shedding Light on Misleading Product Packaging
Sep	5	More Cherry-Blossom Desktops (with Widescreen Versions, too)
Sep	3	Why I'm Not Attending Doshisha University's Center for Japanese Language
Sep	1	Back in Kyoto
August 2006
Aug	28	A Perfect Ultimate-Frisbee Goal
Aug	27	A short writing about not having time to write
Aug	21	More Pics From Our Portland Trip
Aug	20	An 18mm Lens Makes Anthony Into a Giant
Aug	16	Andy Oram, Parker Ranney, Wade Lagrone, and Hill Ferguson
Aug	15	My Book Is Out; Visiting LinuxWorld Tomorrow
Aug	15	Fumie on Lost Lake; Mt. Hood in the Background
Aug	12	Advice on Changing a MacBook Hard Disk
Aug	10	Playing in the Sprinklers
Aug	10	Adding a 0.5TB Drive and Default DMA Settings
Aug	6	My Visit To Fry's
Aug	3	Anthony Seems To Be Allergic To Cats
July 2006
Jul	31	Review of the Sheraton Suites Hotel, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Jul	30	Fixed version of Yahoo::Search pushed
Jul	29	Accessing Lightroom's SQLite DB Directly
Jul	27	Upgrading my MacBook Disk Drive
Jul	23	hot Hot HOT!
Jul	21	Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition
Jul	20	Frustration with TracFone Prepaid Wireless
Jul	20	Yuck!
Jul	20	Looking for a Good Preschool Near Cupertino
Jul	18	House Cleaner Recommendation / Update On Travel
Jul	17	Another Day of Travel
Jul	15	Alan and Natalie Say “I Do”
Jul	13	The Mystery of Jet Lag
Jul	4	Bought a New MacBook
June 2006
Jun	28	Digital Camera “White Balance”
Jun	27	Anthony Riding a Motorcycle
Jun	25	Good Videos for a 3-Year Old?
Jun	23	Can You Tell What This Ad Is About?
Jun	20	Anthony got a Haircut
Jun	19	Volleyball and Sushi
Jun	15	Got Anthony A Helmet(!)
Jun	12	Anthony's First Bicycle
Jun	7	I was wrong, and other voting irregularities
Jun	5	California's “Proposition 82” and how to best raise taxes
May 2006
May	31	It's All About the Bento
May	30	Cool Method to Photograph Flying Insects
May	27	Anthony's First Field Trip
May	18	Kyoto's “Aoi Matsuri” Festival
May	18	Big Hubub About Photographing and Fingerprinting Foreigners
May	10	Followup -- He Was Right, Comments Were Broken
May	10	The Best Email I've Ever Gotten
May	9	The Sunrise is Too Early; Off to School for Anthony
May	7	A Cemetery, Cherry Blossoms, and a big Ramen Noodles Sign
May	6	You can not possibly imagine how bad I smell today
May	1	More iPod Gripes
April 2006
Apr	25	Cherry-Tree Desktop Background Photo
Apr	23	Life Stages of the Cherry Blosssom
Apr	21	A Child's Play is Always Rooted in Reality
Apr	20	Cherry Blossom Finale
Apr	18	Can YOU guess which hand the ball is in?
Apr	18	Long Night Exposures and Cherry Blossoms
Apr	16	Garmin Barometric Altimeter is, Indeed, Worthless
Apr	13	Having Started Preschool, Anthony is Now a "Big Boy"
Apr	11	Rain Puddle. Kid. Take a guess...
Apr	9	Heian Shrine in the Snow
Apr	8	Daigo Temple Cherry Blossoms (with a desktop-background bouns)
Apr	5	Still Waiting for Blosssoms, so Looking Back to Autumn
Apr	3	Sunrise, Malaysian Style
Apr	3	I Know San Francisco is Wonky, but this seems Implausable
March 2006
Mar	31	Anthony the Supermodel
Mar	30	Mother Nature can be a Fickle Mistress
Mar	30	Welcome, finally, to Baby Joshua!
Mar	29	Revisiting the Scandal of Executive Compensation
Mar	29	Server Logs and the Strange Way People Find My Pages
Mar	26	Plum Blossoms and Photographers
Mar	25	Thoughts on my Garmin GPSmap 60CS (GPS unit)
Mar	22	For the sake of irreplaceable persons
Mar	21	Motherhood Knows no Vacation
Mar	21	The Best Way to Lose Weight
Mar	18	Comments on Malaysia Airlines
Mar	16	Back from Malaysia
Mar	14	More Thoughts on Malaysia
Mar	7	First Thoughts of Malaysia
Mar	5	Off to Malaysia for Ten Days
Mar	4	You do not want to catch this bug
February 2006
Feb	24	It will be a traffic nightmare..... but I can't wait!!
Feb	21	Online Exif (Image Data) Viewer
Feb	20	Online Exif (Image Data) Viewer
Feb	18	Lanterns at the Heian Shrine
Feb	13	Working Out and Feeling Great
Feb	13	“Press 1 for incompetence....”
Feb	13	Shame on Volvo for egregious lack of safety
Feb	10	More hardware problems; Shame on Dell
Feb	8	Update on Transcend 4GB 120x compact-flash card
Feb	6	Sick again... third time this year!
Feb	4	Day of Fun with Camera Toys
Feb	2	The main gate of the Heian Shrine, from a different angle
January 2006
Jan	31	“What a wasted day” or “My third trip to the Kyoto DMV”
Jan	30	For disposing of that nagging spouse?
Jan	27	Giving Candy to a Baby, and other Faux Pas
Jan	24	Timing another Transcend card, a 120x card this time
Jan	20	Fire Department Parade, and my new D200 Camera
Jan	19	I'm *sick* of being sick
Jan	15	Shame on Audi for not having LATCH points
Jan	14	Timing a Transcend 80x 4GB Compact Flash card with a Nikon D200
Jan	13	Popular Cameras in Japan; Trip to Yodobashi Camera
Jan	10	Got my D200!
Jan	7	Lots of snow in Niigata, some snow in Kyoto
Jan	6	No one likes an "I told you so!"
Jan	5	My trip to see the Nikon D200
Jan	4	Why, Why, oh, will someone please tell me WHY?!!
Jan	4	I've Decided on a Camera
Jan	3	My Camera's Fit of Jealous Rage; Looking for a D-SLR
Jan	1	Our Christmas and New-Year Cards

December 2005
Dec	30	How to tell when you're Stinky
Dec	30	Photos Appearing in 2005
Dec	27	The Quintessential Anthony
Dec	25	Our Christmas Eve Tradition
Dec	25	The True Meaning of Christmas, Japanese Style
Dec	24	Two views (snowy and sunny) of the main gate of the Heian Shrine
Dec	23	Unix Ware is Made out of Cheap Plastic
Dec	22	Yet More Snow in Kyoto
Dec	21	More Snow in Kyoto
Dec	20	Rohm's Holiday "Illumination" in Kyoto
Dec	18	Anthony can play very well by himself
Dec	17	Yesterday's trip to the Japanese Post Office
Dec	16	Working on our Nengajou (Japanese New-Year Cards) and Christmas Cards
Dec	9	Photoshop and Japanese New-Year's Cards
Dec	6	First Snow in Kyoto
Dec	5	The Photography of Katsunori Shimada
Dec	2	Autumn Visit to the Ryouanji Temple
November 2005
Nov	30	Fall Colors at Ryouanji Temple
Nov	29	More Fall Foliage: Kyoto Incline, Mountains, Temples, and Nanzenji
Nov	26	Photoshop Filters
Nov	23	A Pleasant Sunday Outing with Anthony
Nov	18	Pretty Nature Photos
Nov	16	Presidential Visit means REALLY BIG hubbub
Nov	14	Presidential Visit means Big Hubbub
Nov	11	The International Symbol For.... Tasty Fish?
Nov	9	A Visit to Nanzen Temple (Kyoto, Japan)
Nov	9	If you need to be told, I don't think this sign will help.
Nov	8	It's Too Early for Christmas Music!
Nov	6	Nice Picture from Anthony's Birthday
October 2005
Oct	30	Version 1.03 of my File-Based Posts WordPress plugin
Oct	29	Update to my File-Based-Posts WordPress plugin
Oct	25	Two Coffee-at-Home-in-Japan Recommendations
Oct	22	How To Raise a Bilingual Child
Oct	15	The Inequities of North-American Baseball
Oct	14	The day had started off so well....
Oct	8	A Five-Dollar Tomato?
Oct	6	Family Portrait
Oct	6	Water Water Everywhere, My Kingdom for a Horse
September 2005
Sep	23	My Son is Now a Man
Sep	23	How to Waste a Lot of Time in Two Weeks (or More)
Sep	20	USB Mouse Hangup During Windows Install
Sep	16	Vacuum Recommendation: Mitsubishi Cordless Tascal
Sep	16	WordPress Plugin Allowing File-based Posts
Sep	15	WordPress “File-based Posts” Plugin (v1.04)
Sep	11	I Forgot the Date
Sep	10	New words, like "salivary gland" and "sparrow"
Sep	9	Late-Afternoon Storm, and the Mowing of Lawns
Sep	9	A Wasted Day Futzing With Networking
Sep	5	They're Popping Out Like Popcorn
Sep	2	The Price of Growing Up (and of Conformity)
August 2005
Aug	31	"Take control of the personal moments of your daily life."
Aug	25	The Price of Gas
Aug	19	Seth Godin
Aug	19	A Complete Analysis of the Situation
Aug	16	The Move
Aug	14	First look at the new place
Aug	11	"Carry You, Please"
Aug	2	A Visit to Ryouan Temple (Kyoto)
Aug	1	A Visit to Ryouan Temple (Kyoto, Japan)
Aug	1	Fixing troubles after upgrading to Firefox 1.0.6
July 2005
Jul	31	I know electrons travel at the speed of light, but still....
Jul	31	From the mouths of babes....
Jul	30	Finally got to look at the new condo!
Jul	27	Rising in the land of the rising sun
Jul	26	We're back in Japan
Jul	20	Memory Lane -- looking at code I wrote almost 20 years ago
Jul	11	So simple even a... er... grandpa can use it?
Jul	8	Masters of Trivia
June 2005
Jun	30	The iPod is nice, but...
Jun	25	My dad can kick your butt!
Jun	22	The (Coding) Commands According to Dr. Bergeron
Jun	16	I know what flipping the bird means, but....
Jun	10	I didn't kill myself!
Jun	7	What's the problem with Starbucks?
Jun	3	Fumie is a threat to homeland security???
Jun	2	Is my son Canadian?
May 2005
May	29	Anthony now has a cousin!
May	28	Getting your duckies all in a row
May	27	National Weather Service to be gagged?
May	26	Babies can certainly be surprising... to the uninitiated.
May	2	Late-April Snow in Ohio
May	2	Japan can be amusing sometimes
April 2005
Apr	23	Shame on you, Netgear
Apr	23	I Survived The Trip
Apr	19	I Really Don't Care to Fly
Apr	18	I've Moved My Blog
Apr	17	More Cherry-Blossom Pics
Apr	12	Poetry for the Season
Apr	11	Mango and Poison Ivy
Apr	8	Indeed, the blooms have bloomed in Kyoto.
Apr	8	The Ugliness of Japanese Cherry-Blossom Viewing
Apr	8	Full Bloom (Finally) Hits Kyoto
Apr	7	It's Tough Being a Cherry Blossom This Year
Apr	7	It's Not as Painful as it Looks
Apr	4	I Love my New Camera
Apr	1	The Fun of a Japanese Driver's License Test
Apr	1	Essentials for a First-Time Parent
Apr	1	Choosing a car to buy in Japan

April 2004
Apr	26	Getting Settled in Japan: A Day Off with Daycare
Apr	25	Getting Settled in Japan: Temples and Pink-Eye
Apr	24	Getting Settled in Japan: More Furniture Shopping
Apr	23	Getting Settled in Japan: Bike Ride and Furniture Shopping
Apr	20	Getting Settled in Japan: Nanzenji
Apr	19	Getting Settled in Japan: Air-Conditioner Install
Apr	18	Getting Settled in Japan: Lazy Day
Apr	17	Getting Settled in Japan: Random Errands
Apr	16	Getting Settled in Japan: Alien Registration, Bicycles, etc.
Apr	15	Getting Settled in Japan: Moving Day
Apr	14	Getting Settled in Japan: Washer/Dryer and Microwave Oven
Apr	13	Getting Settled in Japan: Cell Phones and Air Conditioners
Apr	12	Getting Settled in Japan: Buying a Fridge, etc.

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