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 December, 2007A year ago we took a short trip to the Ise Peninsula, an area of Japan famous for its seafood in a country that has great seafood everywhere. In a previous post, I wrote at length about the food at our ryokan during that trip. While on a drive around the area, we were in the middle of nowhere well off the beaten path when we came upon a huge mountain range of oyster shells. I chatted with the lady dropping off a load of shells. She said that the these piles represented about three month's worth of production, and [...] 
View full post » Kyoto had some wonderful sunsets last month. The picture above is a crop from a shot I took from the top (fifth) floor of my building just after sunset. It doesn't look much different than the original frame, except for the size of the birds. Here's the uncropped frame... I'd used my 200mm zoom to try to isolate the orange, and just got lucky with the birds. A couple of minutes prior, I was using my wide-angle lens and got some of the blah cityscape in there, as well as an airplane far above.... It's interesting to compare the colors [...] 
View full post » A couple of months ago I posted about basics of reverse-lens Macro photography, where I showed some items photographed with some magnification that is considered fairly extreme by macro-photography standards. I threw around "true but misleading" big numbers like "45,000 ×" in jest, but in the normal nomenclature of macro photography where magnification is represented by the relative size of the object to its projection on the film or digital sensor, the photographs in that post were just a bit less than 3 × magnification. Pretty strong stuff. I later posted an example at 5 × magnification, making the edge [...] 
View full post » While Fumie was cooking dinner the other day, the proportions of a Chinese cabbage (hakusai – 白菜) in the kitchen caught my eye. I thought it was beautiful, so wanted to try my hand at photographing it. The difficulty in many aspects of photography – as in life – is knowing first what you want to accomplish, and then how to go about it. Unlike my earlier water-glass shots where I just copied someone else's setup, in this case, I had an immediate gut instinct about what I wanted to do, and, especially after having read Light -- Science and [...] 
View full post » Elf Yourself is a cute little holiday thing kindly made available by OfficeMax, where you upload a picture of yourself, mark where in the picture your face is, and then you see yourself as an elf doing a silly dance to some Christmas music. For example, here's a link to my brother and his family (pictured above) dancing like drunken elves. It's all quite silly, and it's really nice of OfficeMax to have made it. But their "Terms of Use", which were egregiously ridiculous last year, have crossed into.... well... I'm simply left speechless. "Absurd" doesn't even begin to cover [...] 
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