Archive for the 'Japan' CategoryPosts relating to Japan and things Japanese So, this is the next evolution of my attempt at what Wikipedia calls "wiggle stereoscopy", but I hereby dub "Wigglegram". (Update: I now have a wigglegram category on my blog to collect related posts.) My first rough attempt was posted the other day as a two-frame animate GIF. This time I've brought the animation control to the user: just sweep your mouse from side to side over the image to animate, as slowly or quickly as you like. I did something like this years ago for my "Cherry Blossom Timelapse: Fleeting Floral Fireworks" post. The scene is from the garden [...] View full post » My Friday was almost an exact repeat of my Thursday: a slow morning, a nice lunch, an afternoon of photography with Paul Barr among Kyoto's lovely fall foliage, a few hours of family time, then drinks and snacks and some Lightroom photo processing at the surprisingly-tasty hole-in-the-wall A's Bar near Shijo Kawaramachi. The only real difference was the location of the photography, this time at the gardens of the Shouzan Resort, which visited two years ago. First looking at the day's photos with Paul at the bar, we jumped around and picked sort of randomly ones that seemed to be [...] View full post » Having become interested in upping my skill in taking portraits, I cornered Paul Barr to pose for some while we were at the Shisendo Temple (詩仙堂) yesterday (a wonderful place Damien Douxchamps introduced me to in a visit last week, a few photos from which made it to this post). I brought my laptop with these photos to A's Bar, a hole-in-the-wall restaurant/bar with really excellent food (try the udon and avocado/salmon salads), and processed them with Paul. The limitless artistic directions that Lightroom affords meant we went round and round with each photo, but in the end is seems [...] View full post » I mentioned in my previous post that I'm not generally a fan of the wide-angle lens, so I find the photo above somewhat annoying, but also somewhat attractive. I can't decide. The next two items likely fall into the same category for many folks.... two-frame animated GIFs that give a "3D viewer" feeling, like those old image-pair glasses we had as kids... I've long noticed that when flipping among images in Lightroom, sometimes I get a momentary 3D stereo feeling when adjacent images are almost identical except for a slight horizontal displacement (like our two eyes' horizontal displacement), and [...] View full post » Paul Barr arrived in Kyoto last night for the fall-foliage season, and so today for our first outing we made a return trip to the aptly-named Ochiba Jinja (落葉神社), meaning "fallen-leaf shrine". This is my (our) second trip, the first having been documented two years ago in "Carpet of Yellow Deep in the Mountains of North-West Kyoto". The first trip had been on a Dec 2, two weeks later in the season than our trip today, so most of the leaves that time had already fallen; this time most were still on the trees, and the color hadn't even fully [...] View full post » |