I've been asked for the last month when I'm going to post fall-foliage pictures of Kyoto. Well, for the last month, I've been wondering when the fall foliage season will start!

Some of the leaves are finally starting to turn. I took a short stroll today and snapped a few pictures. (They are all geoencoded, so you can use something like my image-data viewer to see a map of where they were taken.)

The picture above was taken from the middle of Nijo Street, facing east. Some of the trees have started to turn, but none are really brilliant, and [...]

This past summer, we all traveled to Ohio for my brother's wedding. I'm finally starting to get around to properly processing the 3,000 pictures from the trip, and have started with those taken at my folks' place.

It's really hard to pick ones to show, because almost all of them fulfill at least one of the litmus tests for a photo to appear on my blog: be a generally pleasing image, assist in telling a story, or show Anthony being cute.

I have an informal 10-pics-per-post limit, so what follows are the 10 I picked. At least I've got them [...]

They say that the quality of the photographer is much more important than the quality of the camera, and while I'm sure that's true, I felt very limited by the quality of the camera I had with me at Fumie's friend's wedding on Saturday. (Fumie's friend, Machiko or Ma-chan for short, is featured in my previous post.)

Because the wedding was for Fumie's friend, and she'd have various tasks throughout the day, I was on Anthony duty, so I left my semi-pro SLR at home. Still, I couldn't resist bringing something, so I pocketed a small Canon point-n-shoot. [...]

Last February, Fumie's friend Ma-chan (at left, above) came to Kyoto for the wedding reception of one of her coworkers. The wedding itself was held in the Heian Shrine, and likely limited to only the most immediate family -- it's the reception later on that Ma-chan and other friends would attend.

So, while her friend was at the private ceremony, Ma-chan walked around the public areas of the shrine with Fumie and Anthony, with me and my still-new D200 trailing behind. I posted this picture of the lanterns that evening, but it wasn't until today, 10 months [...]