I have an update on the nasty publish/selection bug that been plaguing some Lightroom users of late, in the selection shown in the grid is sometimes wrong.

It seems that the bug exists only when Lightroom is started with a section in the Publish Segmented Grid ("Modified Photos to Re-Publish", etc.) is closed. So, if you ensure that all segments are open, then restart Lightroom and maintain them open, your grid-selection experience should be bug free.

The opened/closed state of each grid section is globally shared among all collections, so opening all four possible sections (New, Modified, Deleted, and Published) [...]

I popped up this morning to the bamboo grove in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto (嵐山竹やぶ) for a little project with Aeron. I hadn't been there since last December, for the dramatic lightup event they have every year.

After we were done, I took advantage of having a wide angle lens with me so lay down on the street for some skyward shots. Here's another view looking up from the ground, without Aeron's head...

I'm still overwhelmingly steeped in Lightroom plugin development of late, but did get out with the camera a few times over the weekend. On Friday I met some friends visiting Kyoto, and in the shot above one is taking a photo of a stuffed bunny at the Heian Shrine (平安神 宮), as part of a project for a friend's daughter, showing the bunny in various situations around Japan.

Over Saturday and Sunday, I took a family trip to Iwakuni in western Japan to visit some relatives, and as part of the trip stopped by Miyajima Island (宮島) and its famous [...]

Sensationalist headlines are always a problem in American media, but now I'm seeing it in Japan as well. As I write this, Kyoto has partly cloudy skies and chirping birds, but Tokyo 400km to my east is getting absolutely shellacked by powerful Typhoon #26 of the season.

Yet, it was with surprise that I saw this headline on the Japan Times (major English daily in Japan) web site:

This "largest in a decade" surprised me, so I immediately switched to back to current data about the typhoon, screen captured here for posterity:

The [...]

I paid a visit today to the Shouren'in Temple (青蓮院) in Eastern Kyoto for a repeat of the Ikebana (生花; flower-arranging) event that last year produced all these posts:

Today's visit won't produce so much, but this post is a first run at some of the shots I took...

The light was really harsh today; somehow, it was better last year.