Posts In 2012
Posts In 2011 | 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 Shingoji 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 Kyoto's CHEZ LUC and 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 |
Posts In 2010 | 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 |
Posts In 2009 | 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 |
Posts In 2008 | 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 | Lotus |
| 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 Templates 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 |
Posts In 2007 | 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 | 18 | Shrine to Anpanman |
| 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 |
| Apr | 1 | "Word Power": Words from the American Heritage Science Dictionary |
| 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 |
Posts In 2006 | 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 | 23 | Blogs I Read |
| 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 | 21 | “Word Power”: Jon Stewart and The Daily Show |
| 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 | 8 | “Word Power” -- Summer (sort of) |
| 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 | 4 | “Word Power”: FOOD! |
| 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 |
Posts In 2005 | 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 | 27 | “Word Power”: Financial Parlance |
| Oct | 25 | Two Coffee-at-Home-in-Japan Recommendations |
| Oct | 22 | How To Raise a Bilingual Child |
| Oct | 17 | "Word Power": SAT words |
| 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 | 25 | 360-degree Panoramic Photography |
| 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 | 13 | How To Speak Like A President |
| 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 |
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