Wall-E, a Spoon, a Bear, and a Kid
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Half-Built Wall-E, and a Spoon Photo by Anthony M. Friedl -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Anthony M. Friedl -- Anthony M. Friedl
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1/60 sec, f/8, ISO 6400 — full exif
Half-Built Wall-E, and a Spoon
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Anthony has taken to playing with my camera (the huge combo of Nikon D700, usually with an MB-D10 vertical grip and a Nikkor 24-70 f/2.8 attached), which is fine with me so long as he doesn't drop it.

I found the picture above on the memory card. He took it the other day when I wasn't around, of random stuff on the dining table, including a half-built paper Wall-E and a lacquered spoon.

Here's a shot he took the previous evening while we were working on the paper Wall-E...

Photo by Anthony M. Friedl -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Anthony M. Friedl -- Anthony M. Friedl
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1/200 sec, f/9, ISO 3600 — full exif
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Later that day, he wanted to take my picture while I was sitting on the sofa, so to make it fun I put a fuzzy bear-shaped pillow in front of my face, and he took the shot. I'm the yellow blob in the background...

Photo by Anthony M. Friedl -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Anthony M. Friedl -- Anthony M. Friedl
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1/100 sec, f/6.3, ISO 6400 — full exif
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Which leads us to this shot of Anthony today that Fumie took with her cell phone....

Photo by Fumie M. Friedl -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Fumie M. Friedl -- Fumie M. Friedl
Photo by Fumie M. Friedl

I've spent most of the last week either suffering from a mild cold, or working on a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, so I've not had much time to post. Hopefully I'll get back in the groove soon.


All 4 comments so far, oldest first...

I’ve often wished you would put your photo back on your blog’s title bar. Too bad the photo Anthony took of you wasn’t a bit closer – you could have used that one 🙂

— comment by Marcina on January 24th, 2009 at 11:46pm JST (15 years, 11 months ago) comment permalink

Great pictures as usual – someday I need to find a way to get to see snow in Japan…maybe when my wife and I take our dream two-month-long retirement trip to Kyoto in 20 years or so…

— comment by Brian on January 28th, 2009 at 2:39am JST (15 years, 10 months ago) comment permalink

Welp… it’s the money you could be saving with Geico.

(this probably wont be funny if you dont get USA commercials over there)

— comment by Jon Van Dalen on January 28th, 2009 at 1:38pm JST (15 years, 10 months ago) comment permalink

With the first photo there, your son seems to have inherited your photographic talent.

— comment by Eric Mesa on May 20th, 2009 at 10:27pm JST (15 years, 7 months ago) comment permalink
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