文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'Pretty Photos' CategoryPosts including photos that I think are particularly pretty, usually about nature. We went for a short drive up to Kibune yesterday, a little area of restaurants and inns nestled in a long, narrow river valley that's been populated for at least 1,300 years. Although I bothered learning the name only yesterday, we've been up that way a number of times lately, with the first few pictures from this blossom & buds post from that area, also passing through on the trip with Kyoto's bridge to nowhere, and not even a month ago, snow and funky icicles. The snow's all gone, of course, and soon their cherry blossoms will be as well, [...] 
View full post » When a digital camera produces a standard JPG image file, it does so after internally processing its sensor's raw data. This processing includes the mathematical application of various settings for exposure, white balance, sharpness, color saturation, and other algorithms that massage the image data in an attempt to achieve a particular look. Many cameras offer "scene" settings that can impact how this processing is done. For example, a "portrait" setting may reduce the amount of sharpening applied. Raw When shooting in a raw format, this processing is taken out of the camera, and left to your image-processing software. I [...] 
View full post » During our trip to Ise (pictures here, here, and here) a few months ago, we found ourselves at a beach around sunset. There was a little trickle of a stream running off from the mountains, down onto the beach. There wasn't much water at the time, but where the flow finally decided to dive into the sand, it left behind a deposit of the sand it was carrying. Over the course of a second or two, this sand would build up enough that it would become a little wall, diverting the water to one side or another. The result was [...] 
View full post » My blog has been filled with nothing but cherry blossoms for the past week or so, because for the last week or so most cherry trees around here have been hitting their blossom peak. The timing of blooming, though, is certainly not coordinated among Japan's cherry trees. According to Julia's Kitakami Photoblog, the blossoms aren't even close to making their appearance there. Kitakami is a town about 415 miles north-east of Kyoto, and can be quite a bit colder than here. Even locally, the cherry-blossom season varies considerably. The other day we drove a bit north into the mountains, and [...] 
View full post » Yesterday evening, we had a mini picnic on the grounds of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, under the cherry blossoms that overlook the Kyoto Biwako Canal. Fumie prepared a snack and Anthony brought the BBQ play set he got from his Uncle Marty and Aunt Marci (which I could swear I blogged about when he received it, but I can't find it, so must not have.... [UPDATE: I have now] The picture above was taken around sundown, with the help of a tripod and a timer, but during the short noontime stroll I took when taking pictures of [...] 
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