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This was in the paper, a jinja that I pretty much always cruise right by when out for a ride. So I stopped and had a look:

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Why was it in the paper? Are they trying to catch the culprit who keeps throwing ajisai into the Holy Water?

 

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The beginning of the first (and second) dahlia blooms:

 

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The same shot again, this time with the iPhone "tele".

 

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It'd be nice to see the two above and below (tried to copy the other in here, but didn't succeed).

I like that better. (tho I'd still probably play with some sliders a little)

 

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edit: besides tele--2x, and 3x if you've got it, also try regular 1x but backed off (not so close). Same for tele, try it with different distances to the subject, then crop as needed.

 

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Cosmos along the Tama (iPhone). I think the red variety is called "chocolate cosmos".

 

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quick test--same shot duplicated. both are cropped, the first a little, the second much more.

 

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an older one I was playing with:

 

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also a few days ago, maybe better than I thought at the time.

 

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Looking great! Those weren't smartphone shots I assume.

 

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Yeah, the white ones are the new body (camera), to see what some cropping would look like. Then looking thru some other recents (old camera).

 

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Today-a:

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Aaa natsukashii....

 

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Long session at my 自転車屋 today. My bottom bracket was split in half and he's struggling to remove the part that's lodged in the thread.

 

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First visit to Odaiba in twelve years.

Revisiting Odaiba

Initially, a few islets in Tokyo Bay that housed artillery batteries to defend Edo, Odaiba (お台場) is an artificial island shared by the Tōkyō wards of Kōtō, Minato, and Shinagawa. It was expanded in the 1990s and was devised as a seaport district with industrial facilities, residential and...

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Wow

 

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Today's lunch menu--I had the teishoku.

 

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Today's lunch menu--I had the teishoku.

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How much was it.

 

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Today's lunch menu--I had the teishoku.

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I guess it was the Nodoguro set. A nihonkai speciality, I was told.

 

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Uh, second item on that menu, Omicho-teishoku--¥2080. (think sashimi-teishoku)

Our daughter got this, I don't remember if it was one from that chalkboard menu or the bigger one at the table. I asked if it was chirashi, she said it was something else--sorry, I don't remember:

 

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Tedori gorge:



And we went to "the bug museum" (here), with one big multilevel room (hot) with butterflies--so these are not 'in the wild', but like at an arboretum (whatever that would be for bugs).:

 

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"Butterfly farm"?

Lovely shots. And that gorge is magnificent!

 

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This waterfall is the reverse angle on the downriver shot, above:



Then a few from shiramine-jinja:

 

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The Niomon of our neighbourhood temple, a little "dramatised" and aged.

 

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This morning:








And this was inadvertent, a mistake, but kind of cool:



edit: how about one more...

 

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Good old Bashō survived the pandemic, too.