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Fun with Tilt-Shift Photography

I found this fun tutorial about tilt-shift photography and thought I’d try it out. What is “tilt-shift photography”, you ask? Basically it makes everyday photos look like miniature scenes. I figured among the hundreds of Japan photo’s I’ve taken, some would make decent “Tilt-shift” photos. Here are some of my more successful attempts. (tutorial is [...]

Fuji-san

It’s about that time of year where the cold in starting to settle in again and I wake up to a house where the thermostat says “L” as in “too Low to measure.” The only advantage to the cold and wind is this:

Usually in winter I can only see Mt. Fuji in the morning before [...]

Random Japan-ness

Good lord, I’m a procrastinator. I have months of pictures that I want to upload and posts I want to write, but for some reason other things seem to take presidence, like organizing my music, or recently discovering southparkstudios.com and deciding I should watch it from the beginning!

Anyway, here’s a picture from back in May when [...]

Sakura

If anyone were asked to name “Japanese things” the first thing they would say would be “cherry blossoms.” Okay, maybe the first thing they would say would be “sushi”, then “Mt. Fuji”, then “anime and manga”, “Nintendo”, “karate”, “kamikaze”, “sake”, “kimono”. . . Still, cherry blossoms are easily in the Top Ten things you think [...]