文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for January, 2007It is with a mix of fondness and sadness that I greet today's one-year anniversary of having gotten my Nikon D200. The sadness is because it and all my lenses are in the shop again. )-: The problems started when I got my new Nikkor 70-200 zoom and found that it had focus issues. So, I brought it and all my kit to the Nikon Service Center in Osaka. ("kit" is geeky-photographer speak for "photography equipment" -- doesn't it make me sound like such a pro? :-)). They accepted the lens and the body for repair, sending it [...]
Here are a few random pictures from our end-of-year mini trip (related posts: Ryokan Food, and Anthony in a Yukata). I'll start with the first picture I took, from the driveway of the ryokan, just after we arrived (about 40 minutes after sunset). The wind off the ocean was really really REALLY strong -- I had to struggle to close the car door against it -- and cold. It was facing into this wind that I snapped this shot before heading in. (If you squint, you can see the next landfall, Indonesia, about 2,500 miles away.) During an outing on [...] 
View full post » Kodak just announced a new product, to be available in March, that has the potential to be really interesting. They announced new Wifi enabled digital picture frames that can apparently auto-update from an online source. This means that once you set it up for someone who is perhaps "techno-challenged," you can update the pictures from afar. For the only somewhat-challenged, they can perhaps pick and choose from among images in the online gallery themselves, but you can still add to the list of images from afar. I can imagine my folks having one of these, and my [...]
Anthony drew this whilesitting on the floor behind my chair this morning, while I worked on the computer. Thoughtful as before, he included the requisite biology to support pooping and peeing. They don't have hair this time, but at least they have fingers. He said that he drew it for Grandma, so we'll be sending the original to her. I'm not sure why he chose to put a mailbox in there, but it's a pretty good rendition of a Japanese postbox. 
View full post » The Japanese word boke (ぼけ) in Japanese photography refers to the out-of-focusness of some objects in a scene, such as the foreground and background leaves of the image above. Although the word's rominization as "boke" makes it look like a one-syllable word like the English "poke", it's a two syllable word that sounds similar to "bouquet" (i.e., like "bow-keh"). When this word is used by English-speaking photographers, it's often written as "bokeh" so as to make its pronunciation more apparent to, well, other English-speaking photographers. When used in English, the meaning changes a bit as well..... While in Japanese [...] 
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