in the sun, in full bloom
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
9 April 2005
the colour of the cherry
the colour of the cherry
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
digital-zoomed and not good quality, but this captures the colour.
in full bloom
in full bloom
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
This street is lined with many cherry trees for a few hundred meters. When I was looking at several trees with my camera in my hand, a stranger talked to me. This was another extra communication , this time from an amateur photographer.
"The problem with cherries is, they look very boring when photographed," I said.
"True," he replied, "you often fail to embrace the subtle colour. They look almost black and white. So the best way to avoid it is to take pictures of other kind of flowers!"
He was like fifty years old, and said he had been a camera-lover since he was five. He showed me some of his pics on his camera phone, and they were beautiful.
I showed some of my pics, too, and this one is one of them.
reaching
reaching
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
somehow, this reminded me of a very famous work of art. ;-)
no nukes in our city
no nukes in our city
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
hirty-year-old sign of "no nukes declaration." large letters were possibly hand-written, in a very beautiful authentic style.
"no nukes declaration" can be seen in a lot of cities around Japan, because Japan is the first country that was nuke-bombed (in 1945).
peace. :-)
I said no parking!
I said no parking!
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
one of the strongest "NO" sign I've ever seen.
the characters appears here is "駐禁 (chu-kin)" which is shortened form of "駐車禁止é§è»Šç¦æ¢(chu-sha-kin-shi)".
actually in our daily informal conversations, we often say "chu-kin" instead of "chu-sha-kin-shi," but but we seldom write "chu-kin".
no parking
no parking
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
repeating the same message three times in such a small space - an amazing effort.
the english part looks a bit naive... it's as if you made it with MS Word.
no (car-park)
no
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
"NO AUTHORISED PARKING" sign by a private car-park owner.
hand-written. looks pretty old.
no trespassing
no trespassing
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
I'm trying to figure out how many "no" signs (in Japanese, "禁止") I find in my everyday life.
cherry (a new one today)
cherry
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
this one hadn't come out when I saw yesterday.
taken on 03 April 2005.
today's cherry
today's cherry
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
the same one as this one i took yesterday, i think.
taken on 03 April 2005.
there goes a granny
there goes a granny
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
taking pitures of an obvious photogenic subject (or object), such as spring flowers, gives you a chance of extra communication.
during shooting this morning, I was spoken to by two strangers, one older than my father, the other as old as he is.
it's all small talks we had, like "the spring has come, at last!" or "beautiful flowers, aren't they?"
one recited his own haiku to me. he said he got a prize for the haiku recently. that was about spring flowers, though i cannot put it into english...
the other man smiled at me when i was looking at this big cherry tree, saying "they are coming out!"
"it's warm, isn't it? I think that's why" i replied with a friendly smile.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah" said the man, "tomorrow there will be more flowers." then he went.
i think i still had a smile on my face when i took this position and held my camera. then, here comes this granny. i pressed the shutter botton.
when i saw this picture full-size, on my computer, i was a bit disappointed to find out she was looking at me as if at a spy or something.
that's partly why i made this black and white.
taken on 03 April 2005.
magnolia kobus - zoom test
magnolia kobus - zoom test
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
unlike yesterday, there's a lot of sunshine today, and the blossoms look nicer.
taken on 03 April 2005.
magnolia kobus - zoom test again
magnolia kobus - zoom test
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
they are so high up on the tree that I never looked at the centre of the petals.
taken on 03 April 2005
magnolia kobus
magnolia kobus
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
unlike yesterday, there's a lot of sunshine today, and the blossoms look nicer.
taken on 03 April 2005.
3 April 2005
stone-and-concrete wall
stone-and-concrete wall
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
this style of wall used to be very common - when I was 6 years old or so - but rapidly disappearing.
somewhere in Tokyo, Japan.
new wave of zen garden
new wave of zen garden
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
... actually not.
they are stone-and-concrete wall and some accidental weeds.
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