Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/4.5, ISO 220 — map & image data — nearby photos
Flying with Grace

Yesterday's drive in the mountains left us wanting more, so today we took off in the opposite direction for another drive. It was a very hazy, overcast day, but relatively warm and much less crowded where we ended up.

We ended up in the same little rice-farming village in Shiga prefecture with tiered rice paddies that we visited last year (where Anthony and a friend playing among the rice paddies and in another post, I documented the rice harvest). I had remembered a small park where we'd stopped last time, and so stopped again this time.

Fumie and Anthony hit the swings...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — ¹/400 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Two Ships Passing in the Night
( the photo doesn't show it, but they were traveling in opposite directions at a pretty fast clip. )

Of course, I took the opportunity to stick the camera in Anthony's way...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/8, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos

I tend to do this.... I've done it before: here · here · here · here.

Fumie took the opportunity to teach Anthony how to jump off a swing. Here's his first tentative attempt...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 38 mm — ¹/200 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
First Ever Jump off a Moving Swing

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 38 mm — ¹/160 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Didn't Get Far
but he did it, and was proud of himself

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 34 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Mommy Demonstrating Pro Technique

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 62 mm — ¹/160 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Sticks the Landing!
on his second-ever jump

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 48 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/4.5, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Synchronized Jumping

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 58 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/4.5, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Serious Air
we now have a stick to mark his best result

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/4.5, ISO 220 — map & image data — nearby photos
Mommy Going for the Gold

You can see in the shot above the white stick in front of Anthony showing his best to that point. In the next shot, he bettered that mark by more than a foot...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 32 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/4.5, ISO 320 — map & image data — nearby photos
New World Record

We also knocked around a wadded up piece of newspaper (which we found easier to control than the little birdie that came with the paddles)...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 35 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/4, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos

And there was much climbing of (and jumping from) rocks..

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — ¹/200 sec, f/3.5, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos

A fun day.