Continuing from my earlier posts about my brother-in-law's wedding on Saturday, after the hors d'oeuvre reception, there was the full-on banquet reception.

Update: the crop above was suggested by reader Parv, and indeed it's better of the FOB. I'd also wanted to share a sense of the room, but perhaps there's not much sense gained (so to speak) by avoiding the crop, so I'll use it. For reference, the original version I posted, sans crop, follows...

I was seated at the back end of the front-left table, so again I was happy to be at the edge out of everyone's [...]

Picking up from yesterday's post about my brother-in-law Shogo getting married, after the "chapel wedding" and outside photo ops, we moved inside for a short hors d'oeuvre reception before the main banquet reception.

Soon the couple was whisked away for some backstage preparations or other, and the guests were left to fend for themselves with an open bar and a wide variety of apparently-delicious hors d'oeuvres that I didn't get around to enjoying myself because I preferred to enjoy the camera.

However, the room made it really challenging, with direct sunlight streaming in on one side, over to dark and [...]

Fumie's brother (my brother-in-law), Shogo, got married yesterday, to Namiko Shimoya, in Nagoya Japan.

I was there as a guest, but of course I had my camera, so took a few snapshots (about 1,200). I hold out hope that at least a few came out.

The day's events started with a short ceremony in a Western-esque chapel, then a short hors d'oeuvre reception, then the full-on wedding reception party. I've only glanced at the photos from the first part so far, so that's what I'll present in today's post.

I've written before about Japanese chapel weddings here, though this time [...]

We're back in Kyoto for a month now, but it seems I've forgotten to post this summer's picture of Anthony in front of the tree he planted at 1 year old at my folks' place in Ohio. I try to get a photo with him each year, such as at six years old, four years old, and three years old).

His tree is the evergreen, which though it's hard to see, almost reaches the top of the frame.

The other tree's broad leaves had some beads of water that I'd not quite seen before...

I had my Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 [...]

A mokugyou (literally "Wooden Fish") is a hollow musical instrument carved out of a single piece of wood. They can range in size from fairly small walnuts, to the size seen in the photo above, the largest mokugyou in the world. The sound is appreciably deep.

A mokugyou is often used in Buddhist rites, such as seen in this photo from one of the funeral rites of Fumie's grandmother, two and a half years ago. The photos on this page are at the Youkouji Temple (永興寺), taken after the follow-on funeral rite seen in Kotsuiri -- "Placing of the Bones", [...]