{"id":1106,"date":"2009-01-11T23:12:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T14:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-01-11\/1106"},"modified":"2009-01-11T23:12:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T14:12:40","slug":"2009-kyoto-city-fire-department-new-year-parade-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-01-11\/1106","title":{"rendered":"2009 Kyoto City Fire Department New-Year Parade (sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 40 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/10, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a><\/span>\nWater Off a Duck's<\/span> Back<\/span>\nor something like that\n<\/div>\n\n

Today was the annual Kyoto City Fire Department New-Year Parade, held\nout in the street near my place. According to the press\nrelease<\/a>, it involved about 3,000 people, 56 fire trucks\/vehicles, and\ntwo fire-department helicopters. The same event<\/span> three years ago,\nwhich was\nmy first outing with a dSLR<\/span><\/a>,\nwas overcast and gloomy, but today it was bright and sunny.<\/p>\n\n

Unfortunately, I missed<\/span> it.<\/p>\n\n

I'd forgotten about it, and was reminded only by the thunderous rumble\nof the helicopters flying very low, immediately overhead, taking part in\nthe finale. (The press release said that only two would take part, but it\nsounded like half a dozen,<\/span> as took part three years ago.)<\/p>\n\n

Anthony would want to see it, of course, so we ran out and caught things\njust as they were shutting down. The street<\/span> was filled with all manner of\nfire truck, from cute little support vehicles to huge ladder trucks with\ntheir ladders extended 10+ stories up. I know from<\/span> past experience that the\nfinale involves a lot<\/span> of water sprayed from these trucks, and the evidence\nof it this year was clear on the back of a Kyoto<\/span> Prefectural policeman's\nformal jacket, which was positively sparkling with a covering<\/span> of water\ndroplets. I asked<\/span> him whether I could<\/span> take a shot<\/span> of it, which is why he's\nsmiling in the photo above (I think<\/span> he thought I was<\/span> somewhat of a nut<\/span>). In the photo<\/span>, water droplets came out all flat – what made them amazing\nin person was that the were by far the brightest thing around except the\nsun itself, something totally lost in the photo.<\/p>\n\n

As the fire crews were shutting down, parents moved in to pose their kids and take snapshots....<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>80 sec, f<\/span>\/22, ISO 450 —\nmap & image data<\/a><\/span>\nPhoto Op<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Anthony particularly liked watching how the ladder trucks packed\nthemselves up. This involved the huge ladder collapsing into itself and\nswinging around over the cab, the basket folding up, and the widely-extended\nsupport legs lifting up and then recessing into the vehicle. This interest\nwas sparked by a Christmas<\/span> present from Grandma and Grandpa of some very cool\nhydraulic constructions sets<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 28 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/14, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a><\/span>\nLadder Truck Departing<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2000 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a><\/span>\nTruck and Snowy Mountain<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

I liked how the frosty mountain in the background was framed by the\ntrees, and the ladder. It's not that<\/span> I have<\/span> such low standards, but we get so little\nsnow here that it's always exciting to see it.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/14, ISO 280 —\nmap & image data<\/a><\/span>\nTraffic Control<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 44 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/14, ISO 1400 —\nmap & image data<\/a><\/span>\nMore Packing Up<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

These little fire trucks were parked directly next to the playground.\nAnthony's attention wandered to the swings, and with that our\nfire-department outing was over as quickly as it started...<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was the annual Kyoto City Fire Department New-Year Parade, held out in the street near my place. According to the press release, it involved about 3,000 people, 56 fire trucks\/vehicles, and two fire-department helicopters. The same event three years ago, which was my first outing with a dSLR, was overcast and gloomy, but today it was bright and sunny.<\/p>

Unfortunately, I missed it.<\/p>

I'd forgotten about it, and was reminded only by the thunderous rumble of the helicopters flying very low, immediately overhead, taking part in the finale. (The press release said that only two would take part, but [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}