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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — ¹/250 sec, f/7.1, ISO 2200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Sports Day
“beanbags in the basket” competition

I'm really swamped with Lightroom plugin stuff this week, so I just don't have the energy to address all the photos from our recently-completed short snowy New Year's trip, so I'll dip into the photo archives for some low-hanging fruit.

I attended an event at Anthony's school in November, and noticed his drawing on the wall, of his favorite event from his school Sports Day the previous month: tamaire (玉入れ). Teams stand in an area littered with beanbags and try to get as many into a basket held high up on a pole before time runs out. This event had the kids and dads paired up, 30 pairs to a team, so the bean bags were really flying.

Elsewhere on a wall were stacks of display papers the kids use to practice good penmanship, the most recent being “スポーツ” (“sports”). With f/1.4 at 85mm, it was easy to isolate just Anthony's effort....

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — ¹/160 sec, f/1.6, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Anthony's Penmanship Practice

The event was a Christmas-Tree lighting ceremony, held at dusk, in an internal courtyard of the school.

Nikon D700 + Sigma 30mm f/1.4 — ¹/80 sec, f/4, ISO 2500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Early Preparations

The vignette here is a natural one due to the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 (a DX lens) being used on a full-frame body. You'd normally crop it out, but even though it's pretty rough and abrupt, it's still sort of interesting, so I left it.