{"id":777,"date":"2008-03-27T22:54:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T13:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-03-27\/777"},"modified":"2008-03-27T23:04:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T14:04:32","slug":"amami-tour-guide-hirozou-yasuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-03-27\/777","title":{"rendered":"Amami Tour Guide: Hirozou Yasuda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nHirozou Yasuda<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

As I mentioned on my recent Overwhelmed: an Embarrassment\nof Riches<\/a> post, I've been meaning to write about Hirozou Yasuda<\/a>\n(\u5b89\u7530<\/span>\u3072\u308d\u305e\u3046, or just “Hirozou-san”), the guide we had for a day<\/span> on Kakeromajima, one of the\nsmall southern-Japanese Amami islands in the East China Sea.<\/p>\n\n

We're getting ready for another trip to Amami this weekend, having visited the first time<\/a>\nover the New-Year's holidays. I don't<\/span> know that we'll run into Hirozou-san,\nbut Fumie has been exchanging emails, so I hope<\/span> so. We really<\/span> enjoyed the\nday we spent together.<\/p>\n\n

I tended to take pictures of Anthony, so most pictures I have<\/span> of\nHirozou-san are him interacting with Anthony, which he was excellent at. He was always<\/span> teaching, although Anthony never realized it.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 22 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nPeek<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 17 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>90 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nSure, He Can Climb<\/span>!<\/span>\nwhich is just as well, 'cause he's already started....\n<\/div>\n\n

We spent a lot of time at the Spooky Tree<\/a>, which we'd\nnever have found without him. He was always<\/span> offering little tidbits of\ninformation about what we were looking at, or the surroundings, or things\nwe passed. He knows everything<\/i>, but tempers that with a very<\/span> good\n“you'll find this entertaining or interesting” filter.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nHow About If I do<\/span> This<\/i>!?<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 55 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nHamming It Up For Anthony<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

He doesn't speak English fluently, but guides a fair<\/span> number of\nEnglish-speaking clients, mostly botanists and bird watchers who come from\nall corners of the world to visit the unique species of these islands.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>180 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nA Serious<\/span> Discussion...<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

... that turns out to be setup to....<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n...Doing Something With a Seed<\/span> (??)<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>640 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nAh, The Old “Seed On the Nose” Trick<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

(I didn't hear the conversation so I don't<\/span> know what the seed on the\nnose was about, but it was a hit<\/span> with Anthony.)<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 55 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nExplaining Shells and Sea Creatures<\/span>\npicked up on the beach\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nEnjoying Life<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

He grew up and still lives on Amami Ooshima (the largest of the islands\nin the group), and you can tell that he loves every moment.<\/p>\n\n

Hirozou-san's sites (in Japanese):   blog<\/a>  ·  business<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned on my recent Overwhelmed: an Embarrassment of Riches post, I've been meaning to write about Hirozou Yasuda (\u5b89\u7530\u3072\u308d\u305e\u3046, or just \"Hirozou-san\"), the guide we had for a day on Kakeromajima, one of the small southern-Japanese Amami islands in the East China Sea.<\/p>

We're getting ready for another trip to Amami this weekend, having visited the first time over the New-Year's holidays. I don't know that we'll run into Hirozou-san, but Fumie has been exchanging emails, so I hope so. We really enjoyed the day we spent together.<\/p>

I tended to take pictures of Anthony, so most pictures [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}