The outing that produced the Bonanza of Fall-Foliage Desktop Backgrounds and the Touch of Color from the Nanzen Temple posts was an outing to an event at a local preschool, which we attended with the family of one of Anthony's classmates, Monet (who was featured in the latter half of this post).

The preschool had fun stuff for kids, of course, so it was a hit with all...

Lots of events and activities were prepared for the kids. Here, Anthony puts on the eyes of an animal face he's making....

At some point the kids got ahold of those party [...]

I really hate where I live. Not only Kyoto in general, but in particular, the specific area of Kyoto where I live.

This morning I walked to the nearby convenience store for some bread, and I was assaulted by beautiful scenes of inner-city fall foliage. Not only did they positively scream at me, they punched me in the face, demanding that I photograph them. Geez, all I wanted was some bread, and I get this!? I don't have time for this. What a crappy place to live.

Jingu-Michi ("Shrine Street", which dead-ends at the front entrance to the Heian Shrine) [...]

I seem to be buried under a photographic avalanche of my own making. I thought that today I'd get started with the bonanza of interesting and/or pretty pictures that I hinted at yesterday, but instead, today I took two more shots that I want to share.

While waiting for the fall colors to come into full swing, there are the occasional early flashes of color that entertain. My office window affords a nice view of the neighbor's front garden, with one such "early flash of color" tree. It was overcast and rainy today, with occasional short bursts of sun sprinkled [...]

Besides a lot of rock at Osaka Castle Park, one is also prone to find a lot of people taking pictures. For reasons I can't explain, I often find myself taking pictures of people taking pictures, although I've only posted the results a few times (here, here, and here).

I'll add to that list today....

Even though Nao is not looking at my camera, he still seems to have that "presence" I mentioned on the impromptu portraits post.

I have the same Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 he seems to be using, but my Nikon D200 is dwarfed by what looks to be [...]

As I posted the other day, I met some friends in Osaka Castle Park with my camera in tow. The combined kids (ages 2, 6, 8, and 10) had no shortage of fun, including a brief spell with paper airplanes that started out innocently enough, but eventually turned dangerous.

Here, they start out making the planes....

Kana-chan (10 years old, in blue) had also made an elaborate origami target. It's lying on the ground well in front of my camera position, and is what they're aiming at....

However, Daddy #2 gets the bright idea to place the [...]