This post follows parts one and two, of some pseudo street photography with the Nikkor 300mm f/2 lens. I used a monopod for these photos, taken in and around Kyoto Station.

I really like the architecture of Kyoto Station, and it likely lends itself to being exploited by a 300mm f/2 lens, but I didn't do it justice and all these photos are fairly boring. But this is a "story" blog, not a "photo" blog, so I'll continue the story of my first day with this lens...

I had hopes that the effect would be interesting, of focusing on someone [...]

This is a continuation of "Street Photography (Sort of) In Roppongi Hills", about some random street photography I did with a 300mm f/2 lens.

It's a huge lens, but not because it has such a great amount of "zoom". The Sigma "Bigma" goes to 500mm (and with a 2× TC, to 1,000mm), but because it's "fast"... it has a huge front element that just drinks in huge amounts of light. It makes the Bigma, which I thought was big, look like a cute little infant.

Because of its size, it's a conspicuous lens that attracts copious amounts of attention, though [...]

I took this photo today of a chunk of wood about the size of a footstool, but not a footstool. It has a very specific use. Unlike many of my "What am I?" quizzes, the image Exif data will likely be of no use for this one. What is it?

Most "street photography" photos I see make me wonder how they survived the cutting room floor, much less were actually chosen for presentation, so it's an understatement to say that I don't really care for it. But, today I found myself in the Roppongi area of Tokyo, and so I spent a while wandering around with the camera taking pictures in isolation, without any connecting story, so I guess today's post is my version of "street photography".

Like I said, the whole "street photography" thing doesn't really do it for me, so I found myself gravitating to a small park [...]

We tried a bit of grass skiing the other day, at a mostly-deserted ski resort in northern Hyogo Prefecture, about three hours away by car. It was a bit of déjà vu for me because like the last time I tried to go skiing in Japan (with a former girlfriend 20 years ago), we found that even if I cut off my toes my feet were way too big for the rental boots, so I couldn't do it. That time, I spent the day in the lodge while others skied, but the next day we did an activity that I [...]