Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Wisteria muncher
I wonder what he or she will be when they grow up.
Evening:

Morning:

Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Not a flower
I expect there are more flowers to blog, but then I saw this car outside Motomachi Starbucks (of course). Perhaps the reader will tell me if it is fundamentally a special car, or just a specially decorated normal car.

Perhaps the reason for all the funny cars in that part of Yokohama is that, in the city, cars are pretty useless if used only for transport. Here is something far more useful - the "one touch picnica".

(*It is a slightly tight fit, so I sewed some ribbon to the outside of the case which enables it to be eased over the lens. Will just have to wait and see if the tightness/friction causes the case to wear out too fast.) Read more...
Friday, July 20, 2012
Aliens
While we're on purpley theme, here is a photo from December that I seem to have forgotten to blog...

Thursday, July 19, 2012
Employment Opportunity!!!

Agapanthus
I used to call these plants "those oniony things", but now I can never forget their real name, since my mother-in-law corrected me. These days I bewilder poor James by squealing "agapanthus" from the back of the tandem every few minutes (they are very common flowers).

Friday, July 13, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Mango Passion Tea Frappuccino with Mango Pudding

Friday, July 6, 2012
Lichen 'n' stuff
Nature Geoscience said last week that lichen 'n' stuff is really important (see here). Up until now I have kept lichenish shots hidden away, as I didn't think anyone else would be interested. But now you are *supposed* to be interested!


Thursday, July 5, 2012
Flowers...

Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Party
The party after Saturday's meeting was not actually at Standing Sushi (the establishment in the middle of this photo), but next door...at Lion, on the left as you look at the picture...

After a couple of beers things were, however, getting quite blurry.

Monday, July 2, 2012
Market Research

Still in little-camera quandary after giving sister in law my Canon S100. As no one will recall (cos hopefully you do not care, and only look at the pictures on this blog), I was going to buy the new Sony RX100. Then James was jealous, but finally he decided to wait for the rumored (sic) Pansonic LX7 to replace his LX5. This somehow left me with my Sony TX10, which has a firmware issue that makes me want to smash it to the ground and stomp on it, only I don't bother since being a "robust" camera that might not kill it. Picked up my Sony TX5 again, which is nice, and worked for a week (see recent posts on this blog for examples!) before its image stabilisation fault resurfaced.
So what to do? I thought I'd interrogate the man and woman on the street...

Left to right, top to to bottom: "getting the shot" DSLR style, NEX+adapter+Canon manual focus super-geek style (woot!), pinky P&S style, colour coordinated phone camera style, "does he realise he's photographing me?" style, backseat driver shooting style, shoot without looking style, and his 'n' hers shooting style x2.
But then I found image making enlightenment...
