Continuing from yesterday's post, Japan's Coming of Age Day Holiday Spectacle, here are some portrait-type shots I was able to get. Let me reiterate, though, that I was scrambling to get anything, having gotten there and hour and a half after the ceremonies had ended, and didn't have time to scout locations that would give me both a good background and steady stream of photographic fodder. So, I got what I could, where I could, when I could.

I had noticed a sliver of light from the setting sun make its way between buildings, and saw this girl approaching, so [...]

I accepted an invite the other day from my friend Shimada-san to visit the Nanzen'in temple/gardens located in a sequestered back corner of the large Nanzenji temple complex. It was my first visit to that sub-temple, and I'll post more about it later, but suffice to say that it was spectacular. I took a bazillion pictures, which I found totally missing when I got home and tried to load them onto my PC. The card was corrupt and Windows hung trying to read it. Yikes!

It's the first time I've had a problem like this in the 10+ years I've [...]

Two weeks ago I posted about stopping by the grounds of Kyoto's old imperial palace to check out its fall foliage, which at the time was still pretty minimal. While there, I noticed something interesting about the little entrance gate that I happened to have used (perhaps the smallest of the nine that dot the perimeter of the park)....

It's a tiny, insignificant gate that one doesn't even really notice, but I happened to have parked my scooter next to it, and while getting ready to depart, I noticed what appears to be a repair in one of the large [...]

You might remember my post two months ago showing a Nikon D3 shutter release in super-slow motion, using original images ingeniously created by Marianne Oelund. With them, I created an interactive movie where you can scrub the mouse side to side, back and forth, progress the movie in either direction at any speed you like. I also described how she made the frames, along with some stats about the shutter timing and speed.

If you're at all into photography, it's fairly interesting, and it's been by far my most popular post, and two months later, it still gets thousands of [...]
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The screenshot above shows how I geoencoded the images in yesterday's post about a train and boat ride.

Introduction

Today I'm releasing a beta version of a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, "Jeffrey's GPS Support", that adds support for Geoencoding photos from within Lightroom. There are more features yet to add, but it's already polished enough for daily use, offering even the ability to geoencode speed and bearing.

Sadly, Lightroom does not allow for a plugin to easily update the "real" per-image GPS information in the Lightroom database, but this plugin takes an approach that should allow geoencoding to [...]