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Katsuko Nakamoto
Back in December, I had a photo assignment to take pictures of the same subject using a wide angle, regular, and telephoto lens. I chose to take photos of the white traffic markings on our street. (Don’t ask me why. That’s a whole other story for another day.) In order to get a…
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Nikon Lenses
About a week ago I purchased a new little gizmo for my camera called a 2X extender. When you attach it to a lens it gives you twice as much focal length as your original lens. It is not a perfect replacement for buying a longer lens, because you need a lot more light…
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Sushi for Dinner Tonight
I went to the Tokyo Fish Market today with my friend Mary. We had loads of fun with all the fish, all of the fishermen and buying a little sushi for dinner tonight. Here’s a photo of Mary negotiating (with Japanese cheat sheet in hand) just how she wants her salmon filleted.
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Swarming Bees
I was walking through the Aoyama Cemetery this morning looking for good bugs, when I saw in the distance a whole bunch of something swarming around a tree trunk. As I got closer I saw it was a large swarm of honeybees. I got up close even though they were swarming all around me…
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I’ve Gone Buggy!
I remember when I was a little girl how much I loved bugs. I loved picking up rocks in my mother’s garden just to see what kind of creatures were hiding underneath. I captured quite a few of these little critters in glass jars and just loved to see how they were put together.…
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Portrait Class: Yumiko and Ken
Last night I begged Ken and Yumiko to pose for me for my portrait class. My homework is due tomorrow and I am still too shy to ask anybody to pose. Yumiko was happy to comply. Ken, on the other hand, was not as thrilled. Here’s what I got.
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Mother’s Day and Bee with a Drop of Water
It’s Mother’s Day and Yumiko and I just got back from seeing a formal dress rehearsal of the Matsuyama Ballet Company’s production of Cinderella. It was so unbelievably good. The ballet dancers are all professionals and probably (no bias here) the best in Japan. The woman who played the role of Cinderella was…
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Portrait in the Rain
It rained all day today. The weatherman says there is a typhoon brewing out in the Pacific Ocean. Although we could have taken the train, Yumiko and I braved the torrential rain and slogged our way to school. I veered off and took a million not-so-hot photographs in wet Arisugawa Park. Nothing great to…
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Boy’s Day at Sylvia and Norio San’s House
We took the train yesterday to the far western part of Tokyo to have lunch and spend a wonderful rainy day with Ken’s friends Norio and Sylvia Mihira. Ken went to Keio University with Norio 40 years ago and they’ve been good friends all these years. I’ve mentioned Sylvia before on this blog. She…
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