91 Days

A lady and her dogs, out for a ride in the countryside.

Waiting for the train at Shibuya Station in Central Tokyo.

I've seen a horse fly, and I've seen a dragon fly, but I ain't never seen no elephant fly!

Getting things done here at home.

Still having lots of connectivity problems. Still shooting with the phonecam. Hope to have all this stuff resolved soon. Please just keep bearing with me.

We have, as of this morning, an internet connection at the house now, but it may only be temporary.

I'm using what time I do have to completely re-do several of the posts. I had debated doing this, but I've been unhappy with the small resolution and inability to specify landscape or portrait orientation with photos that I've posted by phone. So, in addition to correcting the orientation errors, and replacing the small size with full size I've also done some basic digital darkroom work on a few of the photos.

Digital darkroom work, to me, means that anything I could do with a negative in a lab, I can do in the computer and still call it a photo. As long as it's not blatently manipulated (orange skies and the like), it's still a photo. So, I'm taking the liberty of doing some cropping and changing the brightness of the photos but not much else.

I've learned a few lessons over the past couple of weeks, namely that this project may have been a little too ambitious; maybe I should have started with a month or something, but I'll keep on plugging along. A second, and more valuable lesson has been that I need to re-familiarize myself with different lens lengths and their properties. I found that when I suddenly switched from a full SLR with a good set of lenses to a small resolution point and shoot that I was having a lot of trouble getting the shots that I wanted.

Anyway, look for these changes to be happening over the remainder of this week; hopefully today will be the last cell phone camera post for a while and I'll be able to get some better shots in soon.

The hamburger having a fried egg and bacon on top of the patty doesn't quite make it a ten doller burger, does it?

A nice spot to relax at the 2005 World's Fair in Aichi, Japan.

Sweets on display at the bridal fair.

Shoes, kinda. (Sorry about the delays in posting. I've been having cell phone issues.)

Construction.

Superman never showed.

Driving to work.

Just a small puncture.

All the latest fashions in tuxedos at the bridal store.

A crane pattern on a wedding kimono.

Cigarettes are far too cheap in this country.

I was unable to post yesterday due to a severe electrical storm. My apologies. This is a fence near my house.

One of two ceiling fans we've installed in the new place.

Just a small yellow toy.

These Soba sets are the best deal in town come lunchtime.

It looks like I'll be posting phonecam pics for a while yet.

This was hanging above our heads while we ate a 7 course meal in one of the best restaurants in town.

We pulled up alongside a utility truck and decided to steal the orange cones butchanged our minds when he turned and we kept going straight.

Fishing in Kinugawa.

The waiting, so they say, is the hardest part.

The longest days are over but the hottest ones are still to come.

Just look at them sitting there. Like they haven't got anywhere better to be. Hmph.

Just look at them sitting there. Like they haven't got anywhere better to be. Hmph.

The lights made the house look like it was on fire. Luckily, it was raining.

I'm not sure if he caught anything or not, but he was very intent on what he was doing.

Saturday morning at the driving range. Life is good.

The public pools openend for the first time this summer at nine o'clock this morning.

It started raining at 9:30.