Bamboo forest in Arashiyama, Japan. Incredibly tall and wide bamboo, some over a foot across and a hundred feet tall. When the wind blows, the forest rattles quite gently.
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Photo Of The Day - January 2022
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Ouse Valley Viaduct, Sussex, UK. Taken on my 13 pro.
Had a bit of fun editing this bit of alpen-glo
Lumix ZS100
Lumix ZS100
'Tiers of shapes & colours' -- Harrison Hot Springs, BC, near the entrance way to the Resort -- windy, cool day (15 Sept/21). Camera on iPad Mini 4.
taken with 12pro new year’s eve 2021
One of San Francisco's finest. Impromptu street portrait.
I took this photo, sometime ago. It was a private Tea ceremony in Kyoto at the Sokenin temple, sub temple of the Daitokuji school.
We were the only two non Japanese : on the Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto we met a very nice older Japanese woman. At first we thought she wanted to sell some tour at the temples: we were so wrong.
I guess she liked us and graciously invited us to this special ceremony that was meant to remember an ancient warrior Nobunaga Oda, who wanted to unify Japan around 1560. But he was ambushed and forced to do seppuku (Hara-Kiri). She explained she was related to him as the others, but not speaking the language and with her basic English, we thought she meant that .
At the ceremony we had to kneel and move on the knees till the sacre room, you can see with the doors open on the right.
My husband cannot kneel because he has knee problems. They were gracious enough to let him stand instead: 41 people on their knees plus one, standing....
Then the monks served the tea in another room with nice little pastries, broth and other food: all the ingredients were grown and cooked at the temple by the monks.
After we all went to see the grave of Nobunaga Oda in the cemetery of the temple.
I'm thinking of this story because a week ago I received a little tea cup from Japan, very similar to the little ones we used there.
It was so strange: it was in front of our door in a little wooden box , no letter, just the cup with japanese user instruction.
I don't know the meaning of that. I was able to translate the instructions using Google translate. I don't know any other Japanese person who could have done that. At the time we exchanged some regular mail in English.
It could have been left by someone who knows her but with the covid restriction I doubt it or sent by her or some relative, mystery .
I will post the photo of the little cup next time.
Canon EOS 70D, Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM, ISO 800, 1/125 @ f2
Darn it, I thought that was going to be my next tube headphone amp.
Such a unique experience, and the follow up experience
I was pretty puzzled when I found the little box: I asked two asian friends if they could translate the sheet included, but of course no one of them read or speak Japanese and told me that probably it was Japanese. Then I put two and two together and the whole story came back to me.
Odd how you can look at a picture and think that appears local to me, and I assume as your in Scotland it is
the view from yesterday
nikon z6 + lensbaby velvet 85 + extension tubes | iso 1000 | f/4 | 1/160
Couple having coffee
F/5.6 30.0mm 1/250s ISO-100
F/5.6 30.0mm 1/250s ISO-100
For the first fraction of a second my brain identified this as a closed eye...
True. Edinburgh. Distinctive architecture.Odd how you can look at a picture and think that appears local to me, and I assume as your in Scotland it is
from this morning
iPhone 12 mini, slightly cropped
iPhone 12 mini, slightly cropped