Part six of posts about my brother-in-law's wedding last week picks up from the previous post, about the reception at the point when the couple had stepped out to prepare for another phase of the reception. With the couple out of the room, the mingling among the guests took up in earnest...

As I mentioned in Reception, Part I, it honors someone to pour a drink for them, and Shogo's parents made the rounds to the tables bearing smiles and beer.

Namiko's parents were also making the rounds to mingle with the guests, bringing smiles and beer, in the picture [...]

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Today, 10-10-10 (Oct 10, 2010) is Fumie's folks 36th wedding anniversary, so we took them for lunch to a pizza place a short stroll down the street, Pizzeria Napoletana Da Yuki. Their pizza oven and cook's experience were both brought over from Naples. There's not much to the interior design... it's all in the pizza and other dishes (of which we had way too much... Mmmmm....).

But the food is first class all the way... it was a most-excellent meal. Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad.

As we were leaving, at the fire station next door we noticed a fireman in [...]

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Continuing with my series on my brother-in-law's wedding a week ago, the previous post, "Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part II", many drinks and photo ops gave way to the cutting-of-the cake ceremony, after which the couple were to step out to prepare for the next phase of the event. Part of this "stepping out" involved the bride and groom each being individually escorted out.

Namiko's escort was her mother's mother, and above was when she had gone to collect her granddaughter.

I did a good job with the photo above achieving what I was attempting at the time, which [...]

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At the end of "Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part 1", about my brother-in-law's wedding last weekend, guests were swarming the couple to pour them drinks, and this soon turned into a seemingly-unending turn of photo ops.

My hope as a photographer at this wedding was not to document the events (there were more than enough cameras there to handle that), but to get shots that somehow uniquely added to the memory, beyond just a straightforward documentation. I could do this, I hoped, by using my better-than-average equipment and skill to turn a bland shot into something special, and by [...]

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Having my time at the computer limited by some nagging arm pain, I've been able to enjoy more of what has always been a guilty pleasure: reading for pleasure. And to my great surprise, reading on the iPad has really enhanced the experience.

Overall, I've found that eReaders like those on the iPad (and Kindle and Nook, I would assume) have some clear pluses and minuses:

General eReader Cons Needs electricity Subject to eBook availability Difficulty to see screen in some situations Size: reader may be larger/heaver than the physical book Loanability: can't necessarily loan books to others Style factor: [...]
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