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I found the flytrap has a cavity, haha.
I had a chance to visit a botanical garden in Kasai, Hyogo pref. with a Doctor of Agriculture. He gave me detailed explanations about many plants in the garden, just like a self guide for me. Thanks him!
I love electric poles, wires and somewhat old things. Hanaten is one of the best downtown in Osaka to take such pictures. All the photos were taken with my Ricoh GR Digital2 in B&W (TE) mode, ISO80.
I thought I'd get a bit of experience using RAW with After Effects. Also haven't done any night shooting before, so I spent a couple of nights down at Sydney's Vivid light Walk capturing raw stills for time lapse.
I took these on my Ricoh GX100 using interval shooting and saving as DNG. Most of the frames were one second exposures, taken every ten seconds. The poor old GX was pushing pretty hard to get the DNG's saved in time to trigger a new exposure.
I pulled the frames into After Effects using the RAW loader.
Really nice having so much control over the individual frames, but processing the files maxed out the PC, big time.
The Light walk is part of the Vivid winter festival, and a series of 'light sculpture instillation's' were placed around Circular Quay.
Great stuff though I feel that if this festival is organized again, it needs more moving light displays as I found the pieces a bit more dynamic.
As did other spectators who were ohhhhing and ahhhhhing just like crowds do at a fireworks display.
Also be nice if there was more playing around with shadow and reflection.
My partner cooked very nice clam dishes for us. I enjoyed clams steamed with Japanese sake with Japanese sake. Yummy :) It was so rare case for me to drink Japanese sake at home, but it was yummy as well, hehe :) We also enjoyed paella next day. I should have bought and enjoyed Spanish wine at that time!
It's one of my most favorite style that landscapes in B&W is. I usually take photos of city view in B&W, especially electric wires and poles. Wandering Osaka city with Ricoh GRD2 is so interesting for me. So I selected two Osaka photos in three for the Photo Quest.
On Sunday morning, I went to Matoba seashore with my family and friends for digging clams. We got one pail of clams and divided them into three for three families. We, of course, enjoyed dishes of the clams after we got home :)
I prefer B&W photos taken itself to one taken in color then editing with a software later.
Creating B&W from color photo feels a little lack of contrast for me.
I had a chance to go to Tokyo several weeks ago. I used to visit there once a month, but I can't so often now. Anyway I'm so excited to visit anywhere outside Osaka with my camera. Different people, buildings, nature, landscapes and so on, all the things are very fresh, especially in viewing through my lenses.
@ Shinbashi station, you can see Shinkansen, super-express, 300 series.
@Tokyo Big sight, exhibition halls and conference rooms.
After getting off a ropeway, I and my family were surrounded by trees and green leaves at Mt. Katsuragi. We walked a small path for several minutes, then, suddenly, we found a number of pink azalea flowers there! What we were able to say in front of the pink carpet was just "Wow..." It was somewhat strange but fantastic view.
I'm back to VOX! Heavy works and attending my foreign customers prevented me from posting to vox.
Having foreign customers is exciting for me because we can exchange different cultures. Fortunately, my customers and I had many opportunities to talk outside our business at restaurants and inside trains and a car. I'm looking forward to seeing them, my friends, in the near future.
As I didn't go to my office on two days, I found a piles of documents on my desk, hehe.
Anyway, I was back to vox. I post some photos I took recently. I went to Mt. Katsuragi with my family before I received my customers. It was rainy but we enjoyed beautiful landscape and flowers there!
All the photos in this post were taken with my PENTAX K200D with TAMRON 272E.
