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Posts In 2022

Nov 18 A Superficial Introduction to Japanese Traffic Signage for Bicyclists

Posts In 2021

Nov 17 Photos Appearing in 2021

Nov 17 Photos Appearing in 2020

Nov 17 Photos Appearing in 2019

Nov 17 My First Visit to the Suzuka Circuit Enduro Races

Jul 15 Demolishing an Almost-New Building, Because Why Not?

Jun 16 Konpira: Checking Out One of the Most Difficult Climbs in Japan

May 24 A Very Unintended Gravel Ride

Mar 12 Serendipitous Surprise: Running Into My Own Photography in Kyoto Station

Posts In 2020

Sep 1 New Lightroom Feature to Compare Photo Edits

Mar 12 My Second-Longest Ride: Double-Century Ride to Ise City

Posts In 2019

Dec 1 The Quiet, Lovely Kotokuji Temple in Shiga

Nov 28 New Lightroom Plugin: Collection Mechanic

Oct 29 A Few Autumn Photos From Last Year

May 28 My Second-Longest Ride: 304km Adventure with Gorm

Apr 19 Commemorative Saké for the Rugby World Cup in Japan

Mar 24 Final Construction, Japanese Style

Feb 23 GPS-Settings Info for Bryton Rider 450 Cycling-Computer Users

Jan 27 Temple Overlooking a Frosty Kyoto

Posts In 2018

Dec 17 Native Languages

Dec 17 Photos Appearing in 2018

Dec 12 Wigglegram of a Tea House at the Shugakuin Imperial Villa in Kyoto

Dec 9 Another Visit to the Shugakuin Imperial Villa in Northeastern Kyoto

Dec 2 Abstract Art from the Archive

Nov 30 Valerie Wigglegram at the Eigenji Temple

Nov 22 A Peek at Not-Yet-Peak Autumn Colors in Japan, To Pique Your Interest

Nov 15 Kyoto's 2018 Fall Foliage Season is Upon Us

Sep 20 Surveying Supertyphoon Jebi’s Damage North of Kyoto, Part 2

Sep 10 Surveying Supertyphoon Jebi's Damage North of Kyoto, Part 1

Sep 7 SUPER FUN!! Cycling in Supertyphoon Jebi (2018 Typhoon #21)

Sep 3 Discovering and Cycling Japan's Biggest Climb

Aug 4 Josée Houle's Milk Ninja

Jul 31 Cycling Mt. Fuji

Jul 14 Climbing Mt. Fuji at Night

Jul 8 A Minor Warning About WhatsApp: The PC Version Doesn't Work If Your Phone Breaks

Jun 7 Announcing my Upload-to-Google-Photos Plugin for Lightroom: Prepare to be Disappointed

May 31 Finally Back on The Road, Exploring Roads Near Hiyoshi Dam

Apr 27 Nghia and Minh in Kyoto, Part 3

Apr 25 The Miniature-Life work of Tatsuya Tanaka

Apr 20 Personalizing Lightroom's Amazing New "Auto Tone" Feature

Apr 6 Cherry-Blossom Portraits with Monet and May

Apr 6 Short but Lovely Hike on Mt. Daimonji

Apr 3 Okinawa Ride Day 1

Mar 29 Cherry Blossoms are Quite Early in Kyoto This Year

Mar 10 R.I.P. My Beloved 2½-year-old Rose X-Lite

Mar 6 Perfect Itineracy Gets Dorked by Delta, Sort of Fixed; Keeping Fingers Crossed

Mar 2 Riding in Okinawa

Feb 28 My "Ride" to Okinawa

Feb 23 Test Ride to Osaka Airport

Feb 10 Delta Airlines: Gauging the Quality of Your Customer-Service Representatives, Done Right.

Feb 9 Jason and Yukikaze at the Kyoto Cyclocross Race

Feb 5 Jason and Joey in Kyoto

Jan 24 A Compliment or an Insult? One of the Costs of Apple Ownership....

Jan 22 Kafe Kosen: Quite the Unique (and Delicious) Coffee Experience in Kyoto

Posts In 2017

Dec 24 Announcing a New Plugin for Adobe Lightroom: Smart-Collection Sync to Adobe's Lightroom CC Cloud

Dec 24 Photos Appearing in 2017

Dec 19 Impromptu Portraits at Horseshoe Bend

Dec 8 Curiosities and Discoveries While Searching for the Eisho-in Temple

Nov 30 What I'm Sure Won't Be My Last Wigglegram from the Eisho-in Temple

Nov 28 Lovely View from the Konkaikomyou-ji Temple's Cemetary

Nov 25 On Government's Use of Force, and Net Neutrality

Nov 23 A Few Views of Kyoto's Spectacular Eisho-in Temple, and More

Nov 22 My First Ride to Kyoto's Deep-Mountain Soren-ji Temple

Nov 18 First Taste of Kyoto's Fall-Foliage Season, 2017 Edition

Nov 5 Because It's There: a 400km Ride Around and Around Lake Biwa

Oct 28 2017's Typhoon #21 (Lan) was Quite the Doozy for Kyoto

Oct 17 An Enkoji-Temple Fall-Foliage Preview

Oct 7 Minh and Nghia Wigglegram at the Murin'an Garden

Oct 6 Finally Venturing Inside Northern Kyoto's Kurama Temple

Sep 26 Joshua's Eclectic Birthday Ride

Sep 23 Nghia and Minh in Kyoto, Part 2

Sep 23 Fun Exercise to Try at Home: Suicide by Squats

Sep 9 Alexis's Tour de Kyoto

Sep 6 Minh and Nghia Photoshoot Preview

Sep 4 Exploring the Nooks and Cranies of Ohara on a Fine Summer Day

Aug 27 My Cycling is All "Fasted" Recently, and I Don't Know Why (But I'm Not Complaining)

Aug 20 An Unforgettable Dinner at AIC Akitsushima Kyoto

Aug 16 Taran and Kate at the Heian Shrine, Part 3

Aug 13 The Silliness of Japanese Medicine-Dosage Rules

Aug 11 Taran and Kate at the Heian Shrine, Part 2

Aug 9 Taran and Kate at the Heian Shrine

Aug 5 Revisiting That Mountain Roller Slide From Years Ago

Jul 17 Pleasant Boat Ride on a Pleasant Arashiyama Evening

Jul 5 The Sagan/Cavendish Crash Aftermath: Irresponsible Journalism

Jul 4 Quick Test Photoshoot at Kyoto Tea Ceremony Camellia GARDEN

Jul 2 Disgusted with Apple's Deceptive Marketing for Their "Beats" Headphones

Jun 24 Looking for Cycling Wear With a Little Protection Built In

Jun 17 Kyoto's "Happy Bicycle" Craft Shop

Jun 11 March's Higashiyama Hanatoro Lightup, 2017 Edition

May 31 Pulling Out Your Own Hair, and Other Joys Of Cell-Phone Contracts

May 23 Volunteering at the Tour of Japan Pro Cycling Race

May 20 Century of Wazuka Climbs, Part 2

May 15 Fall-Foliage Wigglegram from Kyoto's Flower Temple

May 13 A FIT-to-GPX Converter that Understands FIT Version 2

May 11 Lovely Century Ride Into Hyogo

May 4 Nigel's Birthday Craziness: Ascending Hanase Pass on a Mamachari

Apr 30 Century of Wazuka Climbs, Part 1

Apr 24 Wild Cherry Blossoms and Fun Fast Descents

Apr 21 ROTOR Valiantly Succeeds in Avoiding my Money

Apr 10 Cycling From Kyoto to Amanohashidate and Back

Apr 7 Putzing Around Kyoto on a Fine Spring Day

Apr 3 Moriyama Criterium: The Category-4 Races

Apr 1 Some Gritty Drizzly-Dusk Shots in Kyoto

Mar 31 Youth Races at the Moriyama Criterium

Mar 31 Visiting That Temple I Saw From The Bullet Train Last Week

Mar 27 Meeting Ram and Krish Kulkarni in Tokyo

Mar 24 My Most Brutal Ride: Round Trip to Mt. Rokko

Mar 21 First Bigish Group Ride in a Long While

Mar 20 Watching My First Cycling Road Race

Mar 12 Behind Suntory's Yamazaki Whisky Distillery

Mar 3 Exploring the Steep Nooks and Crannies Near the Suntory Yamazaki Whisky Distillery

Feb 28 Suntory Yamazaki Whisky Distillery Tour (2017) Preview

Feb 28 Plum Blossoms and Some Mountain Climbs

Feb 25 Kyoto Marathon 2017

Feb 23 Insanity!? Shopping Trip to Costco by Bicycle

Feb 19 Winning the Kyoto Marathon 2017 (Papa Division)

Feb 16 Enjoying Delicious Nankotsu at Torikizoku

Feb 12 Snowy Cycleversary Mountain-Ride Challenge, Part 2

Feb 10 Snowy Cycleversary Mountain-Ride Challenge, Part 1

Feb 3 Heian Shrine Setsubun Burn, 2017: Lackluster Photos of a Visually-Exciting Event

Feb 2 Snowy Ride With Lots of New-Expressway Construction

Jan 23 Discovering a New Cycling Route from Kyoto to Osaka

Jan 20 Revisiting Kyoto's Big Snow from Early 2015

Jan 18 Rest in Peace, Rob Cole

Jan 12 Cycling Through Bamboo Groves and Up Steep Mountain Slopes

Jan 3 Reflections on my 2016 Cycling Year

Posts In 2016

Dec 28 Updating Maps for Cycling, Including Japan's Pseudo One-Way Roads

Dec 28 Photos Appearing in 2016

Dec 25 Jolly Hat

Dec 16 Reports of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Dec 11 Meeting my Match on a Long Iga-Nara-Osaka Cycling Adventure

Dec 6 A Deeply-Red "Wisdom King" at the Ushio Kannon Temple

Nov 29 Benefits of Cycling #27: Freeing Yourself from the Coffin of Electronics Our Modern Lives Have Become

Nov 28 Rear Courtyard at the Eigenji Temple

Nov 26 Victoria Bampton's Lightroom-Misunderstandings Article

Nov 25 The Back Entrance to Shiga's Eigenji Temple

Nov 24 Group Hanase Climb, and Full Carpet at the Ochiba Shrine

Nov 23 Anatomy of a Selfie

Nov 22 More on Friday's Fall-Foliage Outing to the Ochiba Shrine

Nov 18 Checking On the Carpet of Yellow at the Ochiba Shrine

Nov 16 Ninth Anniversary of my Lightroom Plugin Work

Nov 8 Update on my Bike-Mount Failure: K-EDGE Comes Through

Nov 7 Approaching Onyu Pass

Nov 5 200km Fast Sprint to Onyu Pass + Obama + Gonami

Nov 1 A Solo Version of The Recent Social Ride to Onyu Pass

Oct 29 Bad Experience with Amazon Fire TV, and Unhelpful Amazon Response

Oct 26 Pleasant Social Ride to Onyu Pass

Oct 23 Congratulations to Tetsuo for his Restaurant's Michelin Star

Oct 17 A Visit (or Four) to Kyoto's Ushio Kannon Temple

Oct 15 Social Ride to the Quaint Mountain Village of Miyama, With a Twist

Oct 13 Some Solo Exploration Beyond Mt. Atago

Oct 9 Sort of Silly Cycling: Covering the Full Length National Routes 367 and 162 Just for the Sake of It

Oct 2 What an Adventure: a Slow but (Mentally) Grueling Century Ride

Sep 25 Feeling Good: Leg Healing Well, and Good Deeds Done

Sep 20 Looking Ahead To Fall with a few Shots from Last Season

Sep 19 Last January's Chilly Ride To the Middle-of-Nowhere Sokushoji Temple

Sep 17 More Exploring Uji by Bicycle, and Exploring my Cycling Psychology

Sep 15 Adding Your Own Custom Photo-Metadata Fields to Lightroom

Sep 15 Out of Action For a While with a Ripped Calf Muscle )-:

Sep 9 Visiting and Abandoned Thatched-Roof Restaurant

Aug 31 Getting Garmin Software (VIRB Edit, etc.) to Work with Your GPX Files

Aug 29 Lovely Bicycle Ride Revisiting Uji Countryside Photographed Five Years Ago

Aug 22 Returning to Kyoto, to Hot Summer Cycling and Destroying my iPhone

Aug 15 Strava Segment Tutorial: Removing Suckage and Promoting Quality

Aug 13 A Couple of Autumn Wigglegrams for My Niece Jena

Aug 8 More Summer Fun

Aug 6 Toolin' Around on a Mini Baja

Jul 27 Kyoto to Ohio, Summer 2016 Edition

Jul 14 Monday's Norikura Big Loop Ride

Jul 13 Norikura: Cycling Japan's Highest Road (Three Times)

Jul 6 Rainy Tiring Fun-Descent 213km Round Trip To Obama with Gorm

Jul 4 Tea Tour with Manseki and Gorm

Jun 29 Making Shimano SPD-SL Cleat Covers Not Suck

Jun 27 Grueling "Rooftop of Kyoto" Ridge Road Gravel Grind

Jun 24 Unintended Gravel Adventure with Gorm

Jun 20 Cycling to Nagoya for Coffee

Jun 12 A Visit to Kyoto's Northern Mountains, This Time By Car

Jun 9 Half-Hearted Welcome For Gorm's Return to Kyoto

Jun 4 My First Climb up Kobe's Mt. Rokko

May 31 My Day of Many Flats

May 30 NORU Group Ride and a Visit to Hiyoshi Dam

May 29 Revisiting Last Year's Young-Adult Archery Ceremony

May 23 My Better-than-Standard Cycling-Toward-Osaka Route out of Kyoto

May 20 Getting Back in the Saddle with a Challenging Ride

May 14 Back In Japan After Three Months Away

Apr 15 Yahoo! Requires a Dancing Pony to Open a New Account, but I Don't Have a Dancing Pony

Apr 9 Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Apr 4 Poking Around Miyajima Island and its Daisho-in Temple

Mar 17 Looking for a US-Based Phone Number for my Japanese iPhone

Mar 14 30 Pounds of Microsoft Office

Mar 4 Feeding the Bluebirds

Feb 24 The Frustrating Fallacy of "Next Day Air"

Feb 24 Snowy Ohio Morning, Take 2 (Part 2)

Feb 22 The Fix for Missing Apps After an iPhone Restore from Backup

Feb 22 A Fix for Apple Watch Apps Not Showing Up

Feb 21 Snowy Ohio Morning, Take 2

Feb 17 A Warmer Version of That "Warm" House Photo

Feb 16 Kyoto Cyclocross Bicycle Race: Final Roundup

Feb 14 Snowy Frigid Ohio Morning

Feb 7 Falling in the Mud: A Cyclocratic Medaphore for Life

Feb 5 Muddy Kyoto Cylocross: The First Two Races

Feb 2 Cyclocross Races: Practice at the Mud Bath

Feb 1 New Lightroom Plugin: "Bag-o-Goodies" Collection of Tools

Jan 31 Watching My First Cyclocross Bike Race

Jan 19 More Details on the Insidious iOS Snap-to-Road "Feature"

Jan 10 Great Excitement in Small Pleasures: A Starbucks Opens Nearby

Jan 5 Lightroom Resource Utilization: On Setting Up a Machine for Lightroom Usage

Jan 4 Lazy New-Year Break and Reflections on Last Year's Cycling

Posts In 2015

Dec 26 Cycling with Kentaro Kataoka on His First "Real" Ride

Dec 26 Photos Appearing in 2015

Dec 22 Surprises With New Caledonia Traffic Signs

Dec 20 Superficial Thoughts on New Caledonia After a Week's Visit

Dec 17 A Hint For the Bicycle-Sign "What am I?" Quiz

Dec 15 A New Caledonia No-Bikes-Allowed "What am I?" Quiz

Dec 12 A Bit of Cycling in Nouméa, New Caledonia

Dec 12 Returning from Lunch, New-Caledonia Style

Dec 10 Deep Into New Caledonia's South Province

Dec 9 Visiting New Caledonia

Dec 4 Revisiting Fall Colors: Kyoto Mountain Cycling Two Weeks Ago

Dec 3 The Scourge (or Beauty) of "Snap To Road" with iPhone Location-Tracking Apps

Nov 29 Bicycle Ride to Osaka with Paul Barr

Nov 28 A Past-Its-Prime Visit to Kyoto's Ochiba Shrine

Nov 27 Confused Kyoto Cherry Trees Bloom Five Months Early

Nov 26 Cycling to Kyoto's Ochiba Shrine Amid the Fall Colors

Nov 25 Flat, Windless Trip to Osaka; Blustery, Hilly Trip Back

Nov 18 Wigglegram of a Pleasant Couple Among the Fall Colors at Kyoto's Enkoji Temple

Nov 17 Paul Barr in Kyoto Day 1: the Tenjuan Temple (Fall Colors and a Wigglegram)

Nov 15 Mini Review: Skilhunt H02R Head Mounted Flashlight, For Cycling after Dark

Nov 13 Great Day in Kyoto's Colorful Northern Mountains, and at Strava's Kyoto Office

Nov 8 Social Ride Among Kyoto's Fall Colors

Nov 6 A Heatmap of All My Cycling In and Around Kyoto

Oct 28 Bridget and Sarah's Tour-de-Kyoto, Stage 2

Oct 20 The New Bike Is Fast; I'm Just Going Along For The Ride

Oct 18 Last Month’s Particularly Epic Cycling Adventure, Part 2

Oct 16 Last Month's Particularly Epic Cycling Adventure, Part 1

Oct 15 A Visit With Rick and Lily Hancock

Oct 10 My "Metadata Wrangler" Plugin for Lightroom Can Now Add/Overwrite Metadata

Oct 9 Yuba Lunch in Kyoto with Jim Breen

Oct 8 Touring the Countryside of Otsu City with its Mayor

Oct 4 So, I Finally Bought a Road Bike

Sep 24 Bridget and Sarah’s Tour-de-Kyoto, Part 3

Sep 21 Comfy British Cycling Shirts in Japan at NORU

Sep 21 Fumie's "Swanilda" Tutu

Sep 20 Update On My Fear and Trepidation of Cycling Clipped In: It's Mostly Gone

Sep 19 Photoshop Calendar Templates for 2016 (through 2020)

Sep 17 Bridget and Sarah's Tour-de-Kyoto, Part 2

Sep 16 Epic Preview of an Epic Cycling Adventure with Andy and Nigel

Sep 15 Cycling with Manu and Manseki to Osaka Castle and Back

Sep 14 Mini Review: Axgio Bluetooth Wireless Sports Headphones

Sep 13 Bridget and Sarah's Tour-de-Kyoto, Part 1

Sep 9 Visiting Horseshoe Bend in Arizona

Sep 8 Scoping Out Portraiture Locations with Eric and Gigi at the Kiyomizu Temple

Sep 3 Riding Clipped In: Baptism By Fire, But Feeling Well Satisfied

Sep 1 Gave The Cycling Shoes a Try; Wasn't So Bad

Aug 31 Trepidation and Anticipation: Moving Up to Cycling Shoes

Aug 26 Heading Into Antelope Canyon

Aug 24 Ping Pong Rematch Against Vernon!

Aug 22 I Played Ping Pong with a 91-Year-Old, and Almost Didn't Lose

Aug 19 A Hazy Visit to Onyu Pass with Arthur and Neil

Aug 17 Delight and Dismay at the Apple Store

Aug 10 Bike-Fitting Session at Vincent Flanagan's PedalForth Fitting in Kyoto

Aug 3 Morning Calm at Kyoto's Hirosawa Lake

Jul 30 The Solemn Uniqueness of Kyoto's Kuginuki Jizo Temple

Jul 25 Obama Hosts My First Bicycle Visit to the Sea

Jul 17 My First Ascent of The Most-Heinous Momoi Pass East

Jul 11 Riding Kyoto's "Heart Loop" With Friends

Jul 6 Bicycle Ride Around Japan’s Largest Lake, Part 2

Jul 4 That Kyoto Temple With the Many Whimsical Statues

Jun 29 Many Lessons Learned on Yesterday's Group Ride

Jun 26 Cycling Along the River from Kyoto To Osaka Castle

Jun 25 Manseki on the Attack: Serendipitous Camera Mistake

Jun 19 Cycling to Miyama with Gorm

Jun 18 Fixing a Fuzzy Viewfinder on a Panasonic LX100

Jun 16 Informal Camera Comparison: Panasonic LX100 vs. Nikon D4

Jun 14 Bicycle Ride Around Japan's Largest Lake, Part 1

Jun 5 Conquering Kyoto's Seryo Pass with Manu Mohan

Jun 4 Miyama Cycling Tour with Joshua and Manseki, Part 2

Jun 1 Miyama Cycling Tour with Joshua and Manseki, Part 1

May 30 Happy Birthday To Me: Reviews of Some Toys I've Recently Gotten

May 28 A Day of Vertical-Climb Cycling Torture in Western Kyoto

May 25 Kyoto's Nasty 21% City-Bike Hill Climb

May 22 Photo-Development Challenge Results #2: Statues

May 20 Discovering Kyoto's Wonderful Toji-in Temple on a Tour with NORU

May 20 Looking for Modern Bifocal Sunglasses....

May 19 Little Surprises on a 500-Yen Coin

May 18 Architectural Details at the Kyoto Imperial Palace

May 16 Shocking Discovery at the Top of a Kyoto Mountain

May 15 More GPS Cycling Tests: Things are Pretty Bad and There's Little Hope

May 13 Visiting Kyoto's Fushimi Inari Shrine with Matt Campagna and a Super-Wide-Angle Lens

May 12 Gray View of Kyoto from Mt. Otowayama

May 9 The Voodoo of Elevation Gain and Strava (and How I Get Around It)

May 2 Awesome Cycle Outing: Revisiting My First Real Mountain Ride

Apr 30 Automatic Face Tagging Now Supported in my Upload-to-Facebook Plugin for Lightroom

Apr 29 Coffee at Cowbell: Short but Intense Bike Ride in Northern Kyoto

Apr 26 Potential Privacy Issue with Lightroom CC/6 and People Keywords

Apr 26 Pleasant 105km Bike Ride From Kyoto, Along Lake Biwa, to Takashima's Shirohige Shrine

Apr 23 Matt Campagna Wigglegrams Kyoto

Apr 22 My Thoughts on Lightroom 6

Apr 19 Highly-Visible Cycle Ride Though the Mountains of Northern Kyoto

Apr 19 A "Flowers Among the Flowers" Wigglegram at Kyoto's Haradanien Garden

Apr 17 Lunch in a Small Mountain Farming Hamlet in Japan

Apr 12 Making Tofu in Japan with an 80-Year-Old Farmer's Wife

Apr 12 Photoshoot with Ting Ting at the Murin'an Gardens

Apr 10 A Soft Not-Foam-Filling "What am I?" Quiz

Apr 9 Photoshoot at the Peak of the Haradanien Garden's Awesomeness

Apr 5 Soggy Blossoms in Kyoto

Apr 1 Happy 10th Anniversary to My Blog

Apr 1 Back in Kyoto (Spring 2015 Edition)

Mar 29 Ohio Amish Farm

Mar 25 Vacation Update: Crossing the Rockies

Mar 23 Vacation Update: Bryce Canyon Hike

Mar 22 Vacation Update: Bryce Canyon National Park

Mar 21 Vacation Update: Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend

Mar 20 Vacation Update: Grand Canyon

Mar 19 Vacation Update: Vegas to Williams

Mar 17 Vacation Going Well... Just No Time to Write...

Mar 11 A Crazy Couple of Days in Silicon Valley

Mar 7 Anthony Graduates from Elementary School

Mar 7 Photo-Development Challenge Results #1: Hillside Temple Buildings

Mar 5 Another Nice (Tough!) Bicycle Ride in the Mountains Around Kyoto

Mar 3 A Bicycle Ride to the Kuuya-taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto with Manseki Kanemitsu

Feb 27 Performing Minor Surgery on a Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 Zoom Lens

Feb 26 Thoughts on the Venus/Laowa 60mm f/2.8 Super-Macro Lens

Feb 24 An Otherworldly "What am I?" Quiz

Feb 22 Photo-Development Challenge: Inspire Me and Others With Your Artistic Interpretation

Feb 21 Filming a TV Segment about Mochi and Shiga

Feb 19 Facebook Engineering Opens a Satellite Office in Kyoto (For a Few Hours)

Feb 15 2015 Kyoto Marathon

Feb 14 A Dark, Striated "What am I?" Quiz

Feb 13 Fantastic Video for Photographers: Get Inspired From Stu Maschwitz's Artistic/Lightroom Agility

Feb 11 Attempting a 100km Bike Ride in the Mountains of Kyoto, Part 2: The Last 70km

Feb 9 Attempting a 100km Bike Ride in the Mountains of Kyoto, Part 1: Hanase Pass

Feb 3 Shopping in Kyoto: Gigi and Eric Buy a Kimono

Jan 30 Unexpectedly Snowy Photoshoot at the Joshokoji Temple

Jan 26 New Lightroom Plugin: People Support

Jan 25 Exploring The Mountains of Northern Kyoto by Bicycle

Jan 18 The 2015 Young-Adult Archery Event at the Sanjusangendo Temple

Jan 17 Inside the "New" Temple Building at Shogunzuka Overlooking Kyoto

Jan 12 Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow, Part 3

Jan 6 Advice for an Across-the-USA RV Trip?

Jan 3 Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow, Part 2

Jan 3 Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow

Jan 2 More From That Big New-Year's-Day Snow in Kyoto

Jan 2 Kyoto's Biggest Snow in 58 Years

Jan 1 Silly Family Photoshoot for the New Year

Posts In 2014

Dec 31 Andrei Zmievski Wigglegrams Kyoto

Dec 31 Photos Appearing in 2014

Dec 28 New Views of Kyoto from Shogunzuka's New Observation Deck

Dec 24 Quality Time Among the Fall Colors

Dec 19 The Building at the Main Garden of the Kongorinji Temple

Dec 15 The Art and Science (and Complex Frustrations) of Creating my Wigglegrams

Dec 12 Slightly Queasy Wigglegram

Dec 11 A Deep, Dark "What am I?" Quiz

Dec 8 Inside The Shodensanso Villa, Part 1

Dec 3 A Quick Peek at Kyoto's Hanadera Temple

Dec 1 Smooshed Glasses as a Psychological Indicator

Nov 29 Photographer Introspection Amidst the Serenity at Kyoto's Rurikoin Temple

Nov 27 Catching a Selfie Among the Fall Colors

Nov 26 Approaching the Shodensanso Villa

Nov 23 Oppressive Crowds at the Shodensanso Villa in South-Eastern Kyoto

Nov 22 An Among-the-Fall-Colors "What am I?" Quiz

Nov 19 Autumn 2014 Trip to Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Shrine, Part 2

Nov 19 Learning Japanese Slang For Ridiculously Large Portions, at Restaurant Kasuga in South-Western Kyoto

Nov 18 The Whole Gamut of My Blog In One Spectacular Visit to the Yoshiminedera Temple

Nov 15 Boat at Kyoto's Shugakuin Imperial Palace

Nov 12 My First Fall-Foliage Outing for 2014: Temples in the Takao Area of Kyoto

Nov 10 A Few Photos From The Start of a Visit to the Kyoto Imperial Palace

Nov 6 Huge Main Gate at Kyoto's Chion'in Temple Now Shrouded in Scaffolding

Nov 6 A Wigglegram of Three Lovely Ladies in Kimono at the Kyoto Imperial Palace

Nov 4 How To Keep a Japanese Washing Machine Clean

Oct 31 Rediscovering the Chion'in Temple, Part 2

Oct 30 Rediscovering Kyoto's Chion'in Temple via a Short Mountain Hike

Oct 25 Oodles of Cheerful Little Men at the Sekisanzen-in Temple in North-East Kyoto

Oct 24 Entrance to Kyoto's Jojuji Temple at its Fall Best

Oct 20 Teppanyaki Lunch at The Garden Okazaki in Eastern Kyoto

Oct 20 Fixing Lightroom Problems Caused by the POODLE Security Vulnerability

Oct 16 Odd Things in Western Kyoto

Oct 15 Finding a Rainy 25-Year-Old Memory on Miyajima Island

Oct 13 Colorful Precipitation Radar Five Hours Before the Typhoon

Oct 13 Bland Pre-Typhoon Views of the Sky from Kyoto to Hiroshima, at 300kph

Oct 12 Pre-Typhoon Low-Tide View of the Itsukushima Shrine Gate at Sunset

Oct 9 A Black-on-Black "What am I?" Quiz

Oct 6 Populating The Drive Bays of a Synology NAS Unit: Lessons Learned

Oct 2 A Really Gross Discovery On The Way Into an Otherwise Beautiful Temple

Oct 1 What I Learned on My Personal-Best Mt. Hiei Climb #6 (just how stupid I am)

Sep 28 That Imperial Bridge, Funkified in Lightroom

Sep 27 Back in the Saddle With Another Mt. Hiei Climb (and Thoughts on Under Armour Clothes and Stock)

Sep 24 Revisiting a Graveyard of Abandoned Temple Monuments in the Mountains of Kyoto

Sep 22 An Autumn Visit to the Sento Imperial Palace in Kyoto

Sep 20 Filling the Time Between Imperial Villas

Sep 17 Revisiting Kyoto’s Fall Colors: Shugakuin Imperial Villa Last November (Part 2)

Sep 15 My Best (and Last) Score in the 2048 Game: 76,936

Sep 13 Celebrating the End of My Cold With Some Pretty Photos From 2008

Sep 6 Gargoyle-Tile Workshop Visit Part 2: Crafting the Clay

Sep 5 Gargoyle-Tile Workshop Visit Part 1: Factory Tour

Sep 1 A Fork-Like "What am I?" Quiz

Aug 31 Tasty Yakiniku Near Kyoto: Hieidaira's Nanzan

Aug 29 A Day with Sergey Kolychev in Kyoto

Aug 24 Sand Sculptures at Kyoto's Silver Pavilion Temple

Aug 22 Testing a Couple of Watches: Stührling and Citizen

Aug 19 Sigh, Lost All Email For the Last Day

Aug 18 Back in Kyoto (with some Cousin-Play Pics from Ohio)

Aug 11 Ohio-Trip Roundup: Misc Fun Photos

Aug 10 More Summer-Trip Fun: Zipline in the Backyard

Aug 10 Boatride in Ohio: Two Photos of Each Kid, and One of each Pair

Aug 9 Visit to Milwaukee, Day 2

Aug 8 Visit To Milwaukee, Day 1

Aug 5 A Pointy "What am I?" Quiz

Jul 30 Trampoline Dodgeball

Jul 26 Too Good To Be True: a United Airlines Flight That Almost Went Smoothly

Jul 20 Rich Wood Views Inside Kyoto's Zuishin Temple

Jul 10 Invicta Watches: Lowering the Average I.Q. of Humanity One Watch at a Time

Jul 7 Photo Shoot with Alice Gordenker in Kyoto

Jun 27 A Few More Off-Season Spring Blossoms

Jun 26 Lightroom Catalog Maintenance: Clearing Out Edit History For Potential Performance Gains

Jun 23 Revisiting Kyoto's Fall Colors: Shugakuin Imperial Villa Last November

Jun 19 Milestones: Twenty Five Years Since First Coming to Japan, and More

Jun 16 Unearthly Steak in Japan at Awaji Island's "Beefland Prince"

Jun 13 Okay Views From Kyoto's Shogunzua's Overlook Today

Jun 12 Screw It, I Did My Next Annual Mt. Hiei Hike 51 Weeks Early

Jun 8 My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2014, Part 2

Jun 1 My Brother Just Finished a 55-mile UltraMarathon!

Jun 1 My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2014, Part 1

May 29 The Mountain Claims a Sign, But Doesn't Claim Me

May 28 Lunch Report: Exquisite Teppanyaki Steak at the Kyoto Brighton Hotel

May 23 The Lazy Photographer: Exposing for Single-Shot HDR (Sort Of)

May 22 Heian Shrine Gate From a New Perspective

May 19 Kendo Masters Tournament in Kyoto, Part 2

May 18 My First Look at Kendo: Masters Tournament in Kyoto

May 14 Obeisance To Tradition

May 8 Mini Rant: Disappointed in Netflix Video Streaming

May 7 The Thrill of Japan's Biggest Waterwheel

May 5 In Case You Weren't Fully Aware of Just How Stupid I Am...

May 2 Dark, Brooding Camellia

Apr 26 Not Recommended: Best Western Newcity Hirosaki (Hirosaki, Japan)

Apr 25 Just a Lighting Test Shot, but it Looks like an Advertisement

Apr 24 Shirahama Trip Day 2: Adventure World

Apr 20 Weekend in Shirahama, Japan: Day 1

Apr 17 Quick Update: Visit To Shirahama, a Minor Heart Arrhythmia, and the End of Lent

Apr 8 A Few Cold/Blustery/Rainy Cherry-Blossom Pics from Southern Kyoto

Apr 4 Controlling Exercise Sweat in a Hot Climate: Under Armour HeatGear Sonic Compression Long-Sleeve

Mar 31 Photoshoot with Ikuko Among the Plum Blossoms, Part 2

Mar 30 Modern Progress: Japan's First Utility Wires Coming Down After 120 Years

Mar 28 Photoshoot with Ikuko Among the Plum Blossoms, Part 1

Mar 27 One From Yesterday's Portraiture Session

Mar 20 Finally Inside the House at the Seifuso Villa in Kyoto

Mar 17 Scenes from the 2014 Kyoto Higashiyama Lightup

Mar 16 A Few from the Plum Blossom Orchard at the Kyoto Imperial Palace Park

Mar 15 A Red, Squiggly, Fairly Blotchy "What am I?" Quiz

Mar 13 "Photographer-World Problems": Renewing a Passport

Mar 10 Inside the Roof of Kyoto's Chion’in Temple

Mar 7 Heading Up To See The Naked Roof of Kyoto's Chion'in Temple

Mar 4 Plum Blossoms are Coming in in Kyoto

Feb 28 A Few Desktop Backgrounds from the Delightfully Whimsical Otaginenbutsuji Temple in Northwestern Kyoto

Feb 23 The Many Lanterns and Overwhelming Sumptuousness of the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine

Feb 22 Kyoto Plum-Blossom Preview: Scenes From a Year Ago Today

Feb 20 Congrats to Jan and Brian: From Zero to 19ドル Billion in Five Years

Feb 19 Huge Main Gate of Kyoto's Chion'in Temple

Feb 18 From the Garden to the House at the Seifuso Villa

Feb 12 It's All About the Big Lens: Garnering Attention at the Kyoto City Marathon

Feb 9 An Apprentice-Geisha Photoshoot Quite Unlike Any Other

Feb 8 Making the Best of Lackluster Snow in Kyoto by Heading North

Feb 4 Ugh! Recovering From the Accidental Deletion of an Important iPhone App

Feb 4 Environmental Portraits in the Gion Entertainment District of Kyoto

Jan 31 On the Approach to the Todaiji Temple in Nara

Jan 30 A Couple of Mini Bluetooth Reviews: Braven 710 Speaker and Mpow Sport Headphones

Jan 28 Sipping Sake and Seeing Silly Signs: Visiting Kyoto's Sake-Brewing Area

Jan 25 A Woven(ish) "What am I?" Quiz

Jan 23 Continuing with the Seifuso Villa: Between the Tea House and the Garden

Jan 20 A Few Close-Ups of a Wasp's Nest

Jan 15 Finally Back in Kyoto, January 2014 Edition

Jan 14 Halfway Home: Overnighting in San Francisco

Jan 12 A Textured, Layered "What am I?" Quiz

Jan 12 To No One's Surprise, United Blames My Non-Weather Cancellations on Weather

Jan 11 More Frost Patterns from Arctic Ohio

Jan 11 Continuing Saga of My Return to Japan: Flight Canceled Again

Jan 10 Frozen Lake Play from Last Year

Jan 9 Pretty Frost Pattern on a Window

Jan 8 Finally Got My Return Flight Rescheduled

Jan 7 Freezing Bird Movement with a Fast Shutter (and Arctic Temperatures)

Jan 6 Doh! Got to the Airport a Day Early to Find my Flight Delayed Four Days.

Jan 6 Bunch of Goldfinches, Google "Auto Awesome" Version

Jan 5 Anthony Catching Air on a Snow Sled

Jan 5 A Day Of Snow Play for Cousin Felicity

Jan 3 Fun Day of Snow Play, Snowflake Photography, and Birds

Jan 2 Flight from Kyoto to Ohio, Winter 2013 Edition

Jan 2 Goldfinches in a Light Snow

Posts In 2013

Dec 28 Photos of Farming in Japan for Captain Bill

Dec 28 Photos Appearing in 2013

Dec 26 Recovering from an OSX Format of your Garmin Device

Dec 25 Holy Cow, iOS 7 Has Some Really Horrible Design

Dec 23 Recommended: Osaka Airterminal Hotel

Dec 18 Thank You Skype for Not Sucking, and For Saving my Afternoon

Dec 9 Geometric Views from the Miho Museum

Dec 6 Visiting the Miho Museum an Hour out of Kyoto

Dec 4 My Forgetfulness is Getting Worse: Forgot the Whole Camera This Time

Nov 29 Not a Good Day for Photography in the Friedl Household

Nov 28 Approaching the Tea House at Kyoto's Seifuso Villa

Nov 25 A Temple with Extra Restrictions on Photography is Now My Favorite Kyoto Temple

Nov 24 Fall Foliage at Kyoto Arashiyama's Hokyo-in Temple (with a wigglegram)

Nov 23 This Season's First Fall-Foliage Outing in Kyoto: Northern Arahiyama

Nov 22 Entrance Foyer to the Seifuso Villa in Kyoto

Nov 21 A Simple "What am I?" Quiz with a "Why am I?" Addendum

Nov 16 The Photogenic Kintai Bridge in Iwakuni Japan

Nov 13 The Most Important Rule to Follow When Giving a Presentation or Teaching a Workshop

Nov 13 iPad Photography: This Guy is Doing it Right

Nov 11 Why Does Photography with an iPad Look so Silly?

Nov 10 Well, At Least There Were Crows

Nov 9 Lr5.3RC Fixes That Ugly Publish Bug (I think)

Nov 8 The Hope Imbued in a Dull Sunset

Nov 5 Hand-Picked (Hand-Grilled) Mushrooms in Japan, and a Tarzan Rope

Nov 3 Sliding Down a Mountain Slide, In Style

Oct 30 Setting a Custom Search Engine in Firefox

Oct 28 The Richness of Miyajima's Itsukushima Shrine at Dusk

Oct 25 Possible Workaround for that Nasty Lightroom Publish/Selection Bug

Oct 22 Canopy of Bamboo

Oct 22 Getting Back Out with the Camera a Bit

Oct 16 Worst Typhoon Since Godzilla About To Strike Into The Heart of Tokyo!!

Oct 14 Flower-Arranging Show at the Shouren'in Temple, 2013

Oct 11 The Joy of a Fast Photo Proximity Search in Lightroom

Oct 3 Random Shots from a Kyoto Countryside Tour

Sep 23 Lightroom Plugin Update #2,800

Sep 22 Pretty Little Pink Flowers

Sep 16 A Bit More Rain in Kyoto Than Normal

Sep 11 Thanks To Apple, Those Hard Times are Behind Us Now

Sep 11 New Lightroom Plugin: Smart-Preview Support

Sep 9 Revisiting the Ryouanji Temple's Cherry-Blossom Garden

Sep 5 Another Festival of Läkerol Licorice Goodness

Sep 4 A Visit to the Jikkouin Temple in Rural Kyoto

Sep 3 Another "Tea and Sweets in Front of a Temple Garden" Shot (or 10)

Aug 28 The Effect of a Polarization Filter on Wet Rocks, Etc.

Aug 25 Views at the Honen'in Temple in Eastern Kyoto

Aug 24 Entrance Path to Kyoto's Honen'in Temple

Aug 21 A Bunch of Old Men Hitting Baseballs With a Little-Kid Bat

Aug 19 Back in Kyoto Following an Uneventful Flight

Aug 12 Don't Use "Guest" WiFi Hotspots for Local Multiplayer Minecraft

Aug 11 Kicking Around a Soccer Ball with Anthony and his Cousin Josh

Aug 11 More Airline Fun: the Impressive Price for Checking In Just a Bit Too Slowly

Aug 4 Tasty: 14 Hands Cabernet Sauvignon

Aug 3 Slice of Americana: Anthony's Cousin is Bat Boy at a Local Baseball Game

Aug 2 Oops, I Was Wrong: Lr5.2 Beta Does NOT Fix That Nasty Publish Bug )-:

Aug 1 Lightroom 5.2 (beta) Fixes That Nasty Publish Bug

Jul 31 Pleased with Online Shoe Retailer Zappos.com

Jul 26 A (Slightly) Better Aperture-Comparison Presentation

Jul 25 More Shots from Last Month's Visit to Kyoto's Heian Shrine

Jul 22 Giving Dropbox Competitor "Copy" a Try

Jul 21 The Effects of Aperture on a Subtle, Tranquil Cluster of Cherry Blossoms

Jul 21 New Lightroom Plugin: Export to ipernity

Jul 17 Subtle · Pastel · Tranquil

Jul 13 Hiking From Kyoto's Kuuya-Taki Waterfall to the Tsukinowa-Dera Temple

Jul 11 Photo Workflow: Lightroom Sometimes Deletes More Than You Ask, But This Plugin Can Help

Jul 7 The Effect of Shutter Speed on the Appearance of Flowing Water

Jul 5 A Drenched Visit to the Kuuya-Taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto

Jul 1 Hoverfly and Hydrangea

Jun 25 Photoshoot with Yuko at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, Part 4

Jun 23 Photoshoot with Yuko at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, Part 3

Jun 20 Photoshoot with Yuko at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, Part 2

Jun 18 Anatomy of a Photoshoot by Someone Who Has No Clue About Them: Yuko at the Fushimi Inari Shrine

Jun 15 Quick Portrait: Zak Braverman in a Coffee Shop

Jun 12 An Update on the Lightroom 5 Publish Grid Bug

Jun 12 Experimenting with Depth of Field: Interactive Scene of Towering Bamboo

Jun 10 Lightroom 5 has been Released, but it comes with an Important Warning

Jun 9 One Meal in Nagasaki: Shippoku Cuisine at Hamamatsu

Jun 6 Quick Trip to Nagasaki

May 30 Kyoto's Aoi Matsuri Festival, Part 3

May 29 My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2013, Part 3

May 27 My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2013, Part 2

May 26 My Mt. Hiei Climb Challenge 2013, Part 1

May 19 Kyoto's Aoi Matsuri Festival, Part 2

May 18 Quick Peek from Kyoto's Aoi Matsuri

May 12 Last Year's Kurama Fire Festival

May 7 Kyoto's Amazing Haradanien Garden, Part 4

May 6 Kyoto's Amazing Haradanien Garden, Part 3

May 2 Kyoto's Amazing Haradanien Garden, Part 2

Apr 30 "Hot Yoga"

Apr 26 Bento for a Big Boy

Apr 25 "Idiot for Noodles", Kyoto Ramen You Won't Forget

Apr 25 Dinner at Kyoto's "Kiev" Restaurant: Highly Recommended

Apr 20 Kyoto's Amazing Haradanien Garden, Part 1

Apr 19 Photo Shoot at Kyoto's Haradanien Garden: John and Ai

Apr 16 Lightroom 5 Public Beta

Apr 15 Subtle Pastel Blossoms at Kyoto's Haradanien Garden

Apr 14 A Wigglegram from Kyoto's Stunning Haradanien Forest Garden of Blossoms

Apr 9 Cherry Blossoms at Kyoto's Ryouanji Temple, Part 1

Apr 6 Weeping Cherry at Kyoto's Ryouanji Temple

Apr 2 More Dynamic Views of Kyoto From Shogunzuka

Apr 2 More Folks Enjoying Spring Blossoms, Via 300mm @ f/2

Apr 1 Temple Hopping with Katrin: Kiyomizu Temple and its Environs

Mar 31 Enjoying the Blossoms at the Kyoto Imperial Palace Park

Mar 29 Impromptu Kimono Photo Shoot Near the Kiyomizu Temple

Mar 27 New Lightroom Plugin: Exporter to Google Drive

Mar 27 Temple Hopping in Kyoto with Katrin Philippar

Mar 26 More Early Cherry Blossoms along the Kamo River

Mar 25 Early Cherry Blossoms along Kyoto's Kamogawa River

Mar 18 The Buds and Blossoms are Just Peachy at the Kyoto Imperial Palace

Mar 18 More Japanese-Garden Desktop Backgrounds from Kyoto's Enkoji Temple

Mar 13 Plum Blossoms in Full Bloom at Kyoto's Kitano Tenmangu Shrine

Mar 10 The Gorgeous Enkouji Temple of North-East Kyoto

Mar 7 Yet More Early Plum at Kyoto's Kitano Tenmangu Shrine

Mar 4 New-Year Trip Recap: East Finally Meets West

Mar 2 Priceless: Candy and Pottery in a Surprisingly Tasteful Display

Feb 28 Hosen-in Temple Roundup: To and Fro

Feb 27 Cute Snaps: Birds Lined Up

Feb 25 More Budding Plum From the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine

Feb 24 Plum Orchard at the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine: Not Quite Prime Time

Feb 22 Plum is Starting to Blossom in Kyoto

Feb 19 My First Visit To Kyoto's Shugakuin Imperial Villa

Feb 17 Elementary-School Water Polo

Feb 16 Kyoto's Housen-in Temple Part 3: Rock Garden Desktop Backgrounds

Feb 14 Candid Portrait of an Athlete

Feb 14 Kyoto's Housen-in Temple, Part 2

Feb 13 A Few Better Pics of Anthony

Feb 12 Slice of Kid Heaven: Pick-a-Brick at a LEGO Store

Feb 11 First Visit to Kyoto's Housen-in Temple

Feb 9 Nishimura Stone Carvers in a Light Snow

Feb 9 The Colossal Battle of Pageviews: xkcd vs. Reddit

Feb 8 Views of Kyoto From Shogunzuka Over The Years

Feb 7 Visiting My Photo Archives: Random Pretty Shots #1

Feb 5 Cherry Blossoms in November: Looking Back to Autumn To Get Ready For Spring

Feb 5 Disappointed in Fstoppers.com: Wholesale Copyright Infringement as a Business Model

Feb 3 Impossible Shot at Kyoto's Enkoji Temple: Garden *and* Garden-Viewing Room at the Height of Fall Colors, Devoid of People

Feb 2 More From November's Visit to Kyoto's Tenjyuan Garden

Jan 29 Revisiting Flower Arrangements at the Shoren'in Temple

Jan 26 Portraiture Practice: Ray (and Jill)

Jan 26 In Kyoto and Want to Get Rid Of Stuff? Call This Guy.

Jan 26 More Thin Depth Of Field: Retrospective on My First Months with a 300mm f/2

Jan 23 Thin on the Depth of Field, Thick on the Cuteness

Jan 22 Suntory Yamazaki Distillery Photogenic "Whisky Museum"

Jan 20 Kyoto's Souren-ji Temple at f/1.2

Jan 20 Cherry Blossoms in a Sticky Situation

Jan 19 Revisiting December's Arashiyama Outing: Dynamic Vistas and the Suzumushidera Temple

Jan 17 That Massive Column in Nara's Todaiji Temple Is Nothing To Sneeze At

Jan 15 Super-Impromptu Portrait: Aeron in Nara

Jan 15 Japanese Candles, Followup

Jan 14 Elementary-School Shoe Rack

Jan 13 Massive Support Column at Nara's Todai-ji Temple

Jan 11 Cornucopia of Tasty Läkerol Licorice

Jan 10 Japanese Candles

Jan 8 The Mysteries of Jetlag

Jan 4 Snow Play

Posts In 2012

Dec 31 Today's Rant: United Airlines Thinks Flights Arrive Before They Leave, and Other Ways United Shows Disregard For Their Customers

Dec 31 Photos Appearing in 2012

Dec 30 Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo Forest Lightup, Part Three

Dec 26 Seriously Unimpressed with GoPro's Pathetic User Experience

Dec 25 Thank You Anonymous Hero at Chicago O'Hare's Gate E2a

Dec 21 Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo Forest Lightup, Part Two

Dec 19 One Last Portraiture-Practice Post for the Year

Dec 18 Something Peaceful After a Long Day

Dec 12 A Few From Kyoto's Shisendo Temple Last Month

Dec 11 More Portraiture Practice: I Shoot Paul Barr

Dec 11 Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo Forest Lightup

Dec 10 A Curved-Wire "What am I?" Quiz

Dec 7 A Few Non-Fall-Foliage Pretty Pictures For a Change

Dec 6 Portraiture Practice: Paul Barr Shoots Me

Dec 5 Creamy At f/0.95

Dec 5 Pretty and Colorful Public Path in Arashiyama

Dec 4 A Few More Shots of That Amazing Kyoto Rainbow on Saturday

Dec 4 A Long But Photogenic November in Kyoto

Dec 1 Intense Rainbow Over Arashiyama

Nov 30 A Post For Damien Douxchamps' Parents in Belgium

Nov 30 A Wigglegram from the Well-Named "Fallen Leaf Shrine" in Northern Kyoto

Nov 28 Tea and Sweets Among the Fall Colors at Kyoto's Daihyouin Temple

Nov 27 A Quick f/1.2 + f/5.6 Pair from the Sourenji Temple

Nov 26 A Few Pretty Pictures from Kyoto's Middle-of-Nowhere Sourenji Temple

Nov 26 Kyoto's Road to Somewhere

Nov 25 That Amazing Entrance Path of Kyoto Koutouin Temple

Nov 23 Another Pair of Lovely Ladies in Kimono, Another Wigglegram

Nov 21 Elegance in Kyoto's Tenjyuan Garden

Nov 21 My Camera is Exhausted

Nov 21 Beyond Shouzan's Main Garden (Including a Wigglegram)

Nov 20 Solution To Time-Machine Failures After Having Replaced a Symbolic Link with an Actual Directory

Nov 19 A Few More Initial Wigglegram Attempts

Nov 17 A "Wigglegram" From The Garden at Kyoto's Shouzan Resort

Nov 17 A Somewhat Lackluster Day of Photography at Kyoto's Shouzan Resort

Nov 16 Portrait Practice Among the Fall Colors, with Paul Barr

Nov 15 Annoying or Interesting? "Special" Photos From the Iwato Ochiba Shrine

Nov 14 A Slightly Early Visit to Kyoto's "Fallen Leaf" Ochiba Shrine

Nov 13 Last Day on Naoshima

Nov 12 Uncountable Sorrows: Path of Statues Dedicated to Children who Passed Before Their Parents

Nov 12 A Few More General Shots from the Kongorinji Temple

Nov 9 Very Tiny Flowers Among the Moss at the Kongorinji Temple

Nov 8 Vertigo-Inducing Views in Google Maps (Sort Of)

Nov 7 Another Exhausting Day of Photography: Shiga Prefecture's Kongorinji Temple

Nov 5 Temple-Hopping with Damien Douxchamps: a Few Desktop Backgrounds from North-East Kyoto

Nov 3 A Bunch Of Over-Processed Desktop-Background Photos from Kyoto's Myouhouin Temple

Nov 2 Kyoto Fall Foliage 2012 Preview: A Few From Last Year

Nov 1 Kyoto Dinner Buffet Recommendation: Kyoto Royal Hotel

Oct 31 Kyoto's Jidai Matsuri 2012, #2

Oct 29 Melting Willpower with the Melty Goodness of Matherz' Truffles

Oct 28 A Few Shots From Day Two at Benesse House

Oct 26 First Look at the Ultra Modern (as in "Modern Art") Benesse House Museum Hotel

Oct 26 Failing a New Portraiture Challenge: Reflective Pottery

Oct 23 My Approach to Shooting With Two Camera Bodies

Oct 22 Catching the Fringe of Two Famous Kyoto Festivals

Oct 19 More Pleasantness From The Shoren'in Temple Ikebana Event

Oct 19 New Lightroom Plugin "Data Explorer": Like the Grid Filter on Steroids

Oct 14 Cute and Colorful Scene at the Shoren'in Temple

Oct 10 Viewing Anthony's New Shoes with My New X-Rite ColorChecker Passport

Oct 10 New Lightroom Plugin: Export to Tumblr

Oct 10 Jeffrey's "Export to Tumblr" Lightroom Plugin

Oct 9 Serene Photos to Calm the Nerves

Oct 8 Quick One From Today: Busy Hallway at Kyoto's Shoren'in Temple

Oct 6 How Shooting Raw Saves Me (In This Case From a Fritzing Lens)

Oct 6 Putting Up With Amazon Japan's Delivery-Schedule Problems

Oct 6 Rich Rainbow Leaf

Oct 4 Low-Quality Photographic Lighting Has Me Seen Green

Oct 3 Picturesque Bridges Leading to the Nagaoka Tenmangu Shrine

Sep 30 Revisiting Last Year's Nara Mountain Drive

Sep 28 More Portraiture Post Processing: Stéphane Barbery's Interpretations of That One Shot of Me

Sep 26 Portraiture Post-Processing in Lightroom: How Many Faces Can One Portrait Have?

Sep 25 New Lightroom Plugin #30-something-or-other: Creative Commons

Sep 25 Jeffrey's "Creative Commons" Lightroom Plugin

Sep 24 Pleasant Sunset in Kyoto This Evening

Sep 23 Cute Little Melodrama in Five Photos

Sep 22 Flowers for a Job Well Done

Sep 21 Razor Wire in Nagoya: Revisiting my Funky Lightroom Tone-Curve Presets for Lr4

Sep 20 Optical Illusion Above Nagoya Station

Sep 18 Portrature Practice Round Two, First Results

Sep 16 Really Annoying: Laptop Keyboard With a Few Bad Keys

Sep 12 A Few Fall-Foliage Desktops To Get In The Autumnal Mood

Sep 11 My "Mastering Regular Expressions" Book Makes a Cameo In a Very Strange Music Video

Sep 9 My Kyoto Summer: Another Rain Cloud, Another Beer/BBQ Feast

Sep 7 Angry Cloud over Kyoto

Sep 7 New Old Plugin: my Preview-Extraction Plugin Now Works in Lr4

Sep 6 Diary of Gluttonous Excess: Last Night's Visit to the Kyoto Avanshell BBQ Beer Garden

Sep 5 New Lightroom Plugin for Personal Workflow Tracking: Folder Status

Sep 2 Last Chance For the All-You-Can-Feast Beer/BBQ at the Hotel Avanshell Kyoto

Aug 29 Tooting My Own Horn: eBook Version of "Mastering Regular Expressions" Half Off This Week

Aug 28 Pregnant Cloud Over Kyoto

Aug 22 My Idea of a Nice Evening: Pleasant Sunset and Delicious Chicken

Aug 20 Special Celebrations: My Mother-in-Law's 'Kanreki'

Aug 20 Another Look at a Dusky Orange Osaka Skyline from Kyoto

Aug 19 Daimonji Fire Festival Up Close and Personal: Yaron Silberberg's Photos from Last Year

Aug 17 Calling It Like I See It (But Do I See It Correctly?): Stippleit.com

Aug 16 Daimonji: Kyoto's Least-Photogenic Festival

Aug 15 Adding an Extra Half-Terabyte SSD to my MacBook Pro

Aug 14 On The Way Into Kyoto's Northern-Mountain Joshoko-ji Temple

Aug 13 Cooling Down at the Kuuya-taki Waterfall

Aug 11 Uniqlo Dry Color T: My New Summer Wardrobe

Aug 10 Brick of Cash

Aug 7 Anatomy of a Nice Kyoto Sunset

Aug 6 Norman Rockwell-esque Scene in Kyoto: Watching Curiosity Land on Mars

Aug 6 This Evening's Sunset in Kyoto

Aug 4 A Bendy-Line "What am I?" Quiz

Aug 3 McDonald's LEGO Scene

Aug 2 Water Lilies and other Botanical Highlights at the Kajuji Temple

Aug 1 Kyoto's Kajuji Temple In Summer: Alive

Jul 31 A Few More from the Kajuji Temple in Winter

Jul 30 Kyoto's Kajuji Temple at its Most Bleak (is Still Very Nice)

Jul 29 Why Can't Nikon Do Software? A Rant About Nikon's Moronic Implementation of Focal-Length-Aware Auto ISO

Jul 27 Took My New Nikon D4 Out For A Spin At Night (Before Reading The Manual)

Jul 26 Going Max Cliché While Learning About Off-Camera Flash

Jul 24 Revisiting the Fall Foliage Behind Kyoto's Jingoji Temple

Jul 23 On The Way From The Kuuya-taki Waterfall

Jul 22 Beyond The Staircase Ruins at the Kuuya-taki Waterfall

Jul 21 A Few Snapshots From This Year's Gion Matsuri in Downtown Kyoto

Jul 19 Kyoto's Quasi-Annual Flash Flood

Jul 13 Impromptu Portraiture Practice: Bill in Kyoto

Jul 10 More From the Gioji Temple: Lotsa Moss and Bamboo

Jul 8 Finally Reaching the Kuuya-taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto

Jul 6 Interesting Bark Near the Kuuya-taki Waterfall

Jul 5 Nicolas Joannin and His Bugs

Jul 5 A Bit Of Blog Drama with PetaPixel and The Jerks at Gizmodo

Jul 4 Discovery On The Way to The Waterfall

Jul 2 A Few Desktop Backgrounds from the Shouseien Temple

Jul 1 Taking It Easy With Some Flowers From Kyoto's Gioji Temple

Jun 29 Gioji Temple Photoshoot Continues: Little Orange Mushrooms and Depth-of-Field Comparisons

Jun 28 Pastel Fall Foliage, Courtesy of Lightroom and my Plugin Testing

Jun 27 First Peek at the Shouseien Temple in Downtown Kyoto

Jun 26 Prucia Plum Wine from France, and Some Dramatic Lighting, and Rolling-Stones Beer

Jun 25 Trying a Little Formal Portraiture, Round 1: Stéphane Barbery Shoots Me

Jun 24 Returning From the Mt. Hiei Hike: Taking The Easy Way Out

Jun 24 Polarizer Examples With the Moss and Ferns of Kyoto's Gioji Temple

Jun 22 Gioji Temple Photo Shoot: Nicolas's White Little Mushrooms

Jun 21 A Typhoon Makes for a Good Sunset (But It's Me That Makes It Great :-)

Jun 20 A Snapshot From Today's Hike: Kuuya-taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto

Jun 19 Tag Along With Me on a Photo Shoot at Kyoto's Gioji Temple

Jun 18 Rich Colors: A Good Start to an Amazing Day in Kyoto

Jun 18 More Low-Hanging Photographic Fruit: Passion-Fruit Flower in Downtown Kyoto

Jun 17 Father/Son Photo Shoot: Tetsuo and Issei

Jun 15 Happy Ordination Anniversary (54!) to Kyoto Institution Fr. Graham McDonnell

Jun 15 A Visit to Suntory's Kyoto Beer Brewery

Jun 14 A Visit To Kyoto University's Kwasan Observatory

Jun 13 Today's Cardiologist Was Not as Cute as Last Year's

Jun 12 Bland Sunset Over Kyoto: They Can't All Be Amazing

Jun 11 Another Informal Location-Logger Test, Including Google Latitude

Jun 9 A Dual Photo Ying-and-Yang-ish "What am I?" Quiz

Jun 8 Some Desktop Backgrounds from Kyoto's Koumyou-in Temple

Jun 6 Amazing Solar Video from NASA

Jun 6 An Oh-So-Obvious "What am I?" Quiz

Jun 6 Transit of Venus: Not Too Exciting

Jun 3 A Slightly Hazy Photographic Mystery from Kyoto's Mt. Hiei

Jun 2 Yesterday's Hike: The Agony Where Bravado Yields, In Spectacular Fashion, To Painful Reality

Jun 1 Giving Up, Sadly, on Adding A CPU Chip To My Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 Lens

May 30 Hidden Gems in Lightroom 4.1; Hidden Gems in Lightroom Plugin Development

May 30 The Conundrum of Cleaning Lenses

May 29 This Japan Guidebook Should Prove Useful (assuming nothing has changed in the last 111½ years)

May 28 Asking Your Opinion on The Size of Photos on My Blog

May 27 Fumie's New Pointe Shoes

May 25 Lifehack: Keep Cut Flowers Fresh With a Splash of Bleach

May 22 Insidious Extortion: Ongoing Pitfalls of My Lightroom Plugin Development

May 21 A Few More Eclipse Photos from Kyoto

May 21 The Eclipse from Kyoto

May 17 Another Kyoto Stroll: Seeing (or Not Seeing, as the Case May Be) Reds

May 15 A Few Over-Process Under-Thought Photos From Lunch

May 13 Unconventional Camera Bag: Repurposing a Think Tank Photo Retrospective Lens Changer

May 9 A Bunch Of Blurry Pictures of Folks Pouring Wine

May 6 Returning From Lunch: New Discoveries Close To Home in Eastern Kyoto

May 2 Anthony's LEGO Battle at an Abandoned Castle, Made Possible by Warehouse19.se

Apr 30 Delicious Yuba Lunch at Junsei, Near Kyoto's Kiyomizu Temple

Apr 29 Happy To Have Discovered the Galileo Offline Maps iOS App

Apr 28 Pretty As a Peach Blossom

Apr 26 On The Way To Lunch: Eastern-Kyoto Stroll

Apr 25 Second-Annual Disaster-Relief Charity Sale in Kyoto, May 5 and 6

Apr 25 Cleaning Out iDevice Cruft From My Mac

Apr 24 Huge Towering Burger at Kyoto Cafe "Hagi"

Apr 22 A Bit of Wine Tasting at Kyoto Station

Apr 20 Some Kyoto Domesticated Flora

Apr 19 More Early Shots From the Ishiyama-dera Temple

Apr 18 At the Entrance to Otsu's Ishiyama-dera Temple

Apr 16 Photographer's Low-Hanging Fruit: a Pretty Flower

Apr 14 Cherry-Blossom Season Winding Down in Kyoto

Apr 11 Lots of Stairs in Eastern Kyoto

Apr 9 A Few Blossoms From Kyoto's Chishaku-in Temple

Apr 8 Japan's First Whisky: Suntory's "Yamazaki" Distillery

Apr 6 A Feeble but Fun "What am I?" Quiz

Apr 2 Cliché Incarnate: Lame Formulaic Pictures of Plum Blossoms and Those Enjoying Them

Apr 1 Your April-Fool's Joke is Not Good Enough if I Don't Regret Having Trusted You

Mar 31 Cherry Starting To Bud in Kyoto

Mar 30 Adding a CPU Chip to a Nikon-Mount Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 Lens

Mar 28 A Golden Bumpy "What am I?" Quiz

Mar 27 So Much For That Glorious iPad Screen: iOS and its Apps are Not Even Color Managed

Mar 24 Small But Tasty Party at Uroko

Mar 20 Apple's Dividend: a Windfall for Non-Shareholders

Mar 18 Funky Kyoto Marathoners: More Lightroom Processing Fun (and a mini challenge)

Mar 16 Some Random Japan Desktop Backgrounds From the Past Year

Mar 15 Kyoto Marathon: First Runners

Mar 14 Kyoto Butsugen College of Massage

Mar 12 Kyoto Marathon: In Search of a Photogenic Spot

Mar 11 Today's Kyoto Marathon

Mar 10 A Somewhat Parallel "What am I?" Quiz

Mar 10 Life Can Be Tough: Bath, iPad, Spitballs, and Quality Time

Mar 7 Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine: Intense Burn Continues

Mar 6 Lightroom 4.0 is Out!

Mar 1 A Few Colorful Kyoto Desktop Backgrounds from November

Feb 22 Traditional Japanese Archery: the Instructors' Turn

Feb 17 Getting Photos from Lightroom to iPad: a Much Smoother Workflow

Feb 17 My Lightroom-to-iPad Workflow: Now a Lot More Refined

Feb 16 Intense Burn: A Few More Looks at the Bubbling Cauldron of Boiling Air

Feb 14 Looking for a Good Photo-Viewing iPad App

Feb 14 Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine: Intense Burn Begins

Feb 13 Two New Lightroom Plugins: Folder Publisher and Collection Publisher

Feb 10 Setsubun at the Heian Shrine: Beans of Good Fortune

Feb 5 Setsubun at the Heian Shrine: Attack (and Repulsion) of the Evil Spirits

Feb 3 A Few Shots From Today's Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine

Jan 31 Traditional Japanese Archery: More Ladies, Part 2

Jan 27 Traditional Japanese Archery: More Ladies, Part 1

Jan 23 Badass Japanese Archery: Now It's The Ladies' Turn

Jan 23 Colorful Ladies' Wardrobe at the Japanese Archery Event

Jan 21 More Badass Japanese Archery

Jan 18 Milling About Ouside the Japanese-Archery Event

Jan 17 Flip Side of the Japanese Archery Rite-of-Passage Event: Way, Way Too Crowded to Enjoy

Jan 17 Lightroom Plugin Development: Adding a URL Handler to a Lightroom Plugin

Jan 16 Total Discipline: Anatomy of a Japanese Archer's Shot

Jan 15 Traditional Archery Like a Boss

Jan 15 Informal GPS Logger Test: iPhone 4s GPS is Shockingly Good

Jan 11 Great (and in Some Ways Important) "Fotoshop by Adobé" Spoof by Jesse Rosten

Jan 10 Rediscovering Kyoto's Mt. Yoshida with Friends

Jan 10 Adobe Has Released a Public Beta for Lightroom 4

Jan 8 Charcoal Preparation: Monochromatic Work of a Japanese Swordsmith

Jan 8 In-Camera Geoencoding and the Nikon D4: Case Study In Product-Development Costs, Ignorance, and Naïveté

Jan 6 Nikon Marketing's Amazing Feat: Overshadowing The Launch of the D4

Jan 5 Simple Temple Sliding Wall

Jan 4 Inspired Artistic Temple Shot By Paul Barr

Posts In 2011

Dec 31 Kyoto Dynamic Weather, Rainbow, and Panorama

Dec 31 Photos Appearing in 2011

Dec 30 Safety Last: Shockingly Unsafe Preparations For the New Year Holiday

Dec 29 Big, Moody Space of the Kosan Temple in Northwest Kyoto

Dec 27 That Particularly Amazing Tree at the Imakumano Kannonji Temple

Dec 26 From What I Can Tell, The Japanese Economy Is Heating Up

Dec 23 Skipping Rocks with Kenny

Dec 18 Blessing in Disguise: Rained out at the Fushimi Castle

Dec 14 Context for the Bamboo-and-Leaf Photo, and Some Crazy Post-Processing

Dec 14 Trey Ratcliff's Print-Ad Experiment Is Revealing (But I Won't Be Trying It)

Dec 13 Lightroom 3.6 Released

Dec 12 A Cold, Wet, Photogenic Visit To The Ryoanji Temple

Dec 10 On The Path To (and From) Northwest Kyoto's Jingoji Temple

Dec 7 Another Short Stroll in Kyoto, Another Set of Pictures

Dec 6 Update for Nikon D3/D700/D300 Shooters Who Use Lightroom or Photoshop

Dec 6 Rainbow and Helicopter over North-East Kyoto

Dec 3 What Knots Should I Teach My Son?

Dec 2 My Turn: A Few of My Shots From Yesterday's Trip to the Eikando Temple with Anthony

Dec 2 Well, That's Surprising, It Seems that I Have Written a Plugin for 500px

Dec 1 Anthony Shows Some Photographic Brilliance at the Always-Brilliant Eikando Temple

Nov 30 Spectacular Colors at Kyoto's Shinnyodo Temple

Nov 28 Another Day of Amazing Fall Colors in Kyoto

Nov 28 More Fall Foliage From the Yoshiminedera Temple

Nov 25 Entering Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Temple

Nov 25 Finally Over a Cold, Some Rustic Temple/Shrine Visits in Western Kyoto

Nov 17 Unusually Dynamic Views of Kyoto from Shogunzuka

Nov 15 Bride at Sunset

Nov 12 Not a Petroleum Refinery, Silly, it's an Aquarium

Nov 9 My Day Walking Aimlessly in Kyoto

Nov 7 A Few Okay Shots From Last Year's Visit To Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Temple

Nov 7 Heading Out To Photograph The Fall Foliage? Don't Forget The Polarizer Filter

Nov 5 A Dark, Moonless "What am I?" Quiz

Nov 4 Getting Photos from Lightroom to an iPad is a Lot Harder (to Do Well) Than You Think; Here's How

Oct 31 A Few Stylized Shots from Bunny Island

Oct 30 Japan's Bunny Island

Oct 28 Leaving Rabbit Island

Oct 24 One More From Last Year's Eikando Temple Fall Colors

Oct 22 23,692-Pixel-Wide Panorma of Kyoto, in Five Minutes

Oct 20 Kyoto's Eikando Temple Continues To Amaze

Oct 19 Kyoto Fall-Color Preview With Impact: Impressionism in Lightroom

Oct 12 A Few More From the Ikebana Show, 2011

Oct 11 Haphazard and Defocused: Elusive Lesson in Photographic Composition

Oct 10 Low-Hanging Fruit: Flower Detail from Kid Ikebana

Oct 7 After the Rice Harvest

Oct 7 On Why the iPhone 4s is a Disappointment, and on Steve Jobs' Greatest Failure

Oct 5 More From the Rice Harvest

Oct 2 Calendar Template PSDs for 2012

Sep 29 Stages of the Rice Harvest

Sep 28 Highlight of Yesterday's Mountain Ride: Friendly Farmer Lady

Sep 27 Perfect Flower in the Mountains of Nara

Sep 20 Mike Bennett's Last Day in Kyoto: Arashiyama Bike Ride

Sep 20 Saga of Frustration: Developing (and Abandoning) a Lightroom Plugin for 500px

Sep 18 Visiting the Stonecarvers' Gardens with Mike Bennett

Sep 13 Wrapping Up Last Week's Fushimi-Inari Shrine Posts

Sep 11 Visiting the Fushimi-Inari Shrine with Mike Bennett and Friends

Sep 9 Kyoto's Dazzling Fushimi-Inari Shrine is Now Even More Dazzling

Sep 8 Typhoon Was Mostly a Non-Event in Kyoto

Aug 27 More Wandering Around The Fringes of the Sennyuji Temple

Aug 27 In Other Hurricane News: Two Typhoons (and Us) Bear Down on Japan

Aug 23 Update to my Data-Plot Lightroom Plugin Adds More Kinds of Plots

Aug 19 A Couple of New Lightroom Export Plugins: to Twitter, and to ExposureManager

Aug 16 A Few Pink Blossoms at the Sennyuji Temple

Aug 15 Picturesque Side Entrance to the Sennyuji Temple

Aug 13 Roofs and Rock Gardens at Kyoto's Sennyuji Temple

Aug 12 Did Some Big Server Maintenance

Aug 11 Visiting Cousin Felicity

Aug 5 Mild River Rafting in West Virginia

Aug 2 Gion Matsuri: More From Day Three

Aug 1 Fun Stops for an 8-Year-Old Boy Along Route 77 Between Cleveland and Charlotte?

Jul 29 Slightly Mysterious Stairs Into Mountain Overgrowth

Jul 24 A Few Shots of Me at Gion Matsuri

Jul 19 Gion Matsuri's Shinkousai Event

Jul 19 The Kind Of Shot That Ultra Thin Depth Of Field Was Made For

Jul 18 One Quick Photo from the Gion Festival's Shinkousai Event

Jul 17 A Few Shots from Gion Matsuri Festival, Day 3

Jul 16 Gion Festival Street Shots: More From Day 2

Jul 15 Gion Matsuri Festival: Ruining Every Photo Before It's Taken

Jul 14 A Thin Slice of Big Crowds at Kyoto's Gion Matsuri Festival

Jul 13 The Innocent Honesty of a Child

Jul 9 Anthony Welcomes His Cousin Nao

Jul 7 Uji-City Rural Mountain Drive #2: Ice-Cream Girl, Fruit Pizza, and More

Jul 5 Anthony Lego Battle: Clones vs. Droids

Jul 4 Pleasant Little Village in Uji, Part 2

Jul 4 Fireworks Photos Like You've Never Seen, from Mark Sirota

Jul 3 Mountain Ravine in Northern Kyoto, Part 2

Jul 2 Mountain Ravine in Northern Kyoto, Part 1

Jul 1 The Very Red Zaobashi Suspension Bridge in Wakayama Prefecture

Jun 29 Final Wrapup From My Earlier Remote-Mountain Trip in Uji City

Jun 28 Searching for Mountain Vegetables

Jun 26 Itami Sky Park, Next to Osaka Airport

Jun 25 A Keto Harvester Head in Action is an Impressive Sight

Jun 23 Revisiting April's Eastern-Kyoto Temple Stroll

Jun 22 Scenes From Mountain Roads in Northern Kyoto

Jun 21 What's the Point of This "What am I?" Quiz?

Jun 20 Trying Some Hard-Edged Black and White

Jun 19 A Photographic Challenge of Monumental Scale

Jun 18 Kyoto's Shimyouin Temple: Exceedingly Remote, Bashful, and Serene

Jun 16 Deep In The Mountains Above Kyoto's Kumogahata Village

Jun 16 A Few More From Our First Rural Uji Trip

Jun 15 Rainy Tranquility at the Sanzen-in Temple

Jun 13 Pleasant Little Village in Uji

Jun 10 What It Looks Like When Tiered Rice Paddies Go to Seed

Jun 7 Rural Uji's Kiyotakigyuu Shrine

Jun 7 Scenes From Rural Japan: Mountain Village in Uji City

Jun 6 A Good Day, Courtesy of Suntory and a Cute Cardiologist

Jun 4 Not Meant to Be: Trying My Hand At Metalsmithing

Jun 3 A Bumpy-on-the-Bottom "What am I?" Quiz

Jun 3 Exquisite Beauty Growing Like a Weed by the Side of the Road

Jun 1 While Crossing the Great Seto Bridge

May 28 LEGO/Train Play with Gen

May 28 Views Near the Top of Wakayama's Mt. Oishigamine

May 27 The Aragishima Terraced Rice Paddies of Wakayama

May 26 One Last Towel-Museum "What am I?" Quiz

May 25 Exploring a Glass of Dainty Flowers With the Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5

May 25 The Challenge of Comment Moderation in a Spiteful World

May 24 The Unexpected Culinary Delights of Roppongi's Le Grand Soir

May 23 Descending Into a Volcanic Crater (sort of)

May 22 Terrace Dining Over Kyoto's Kamo River, at Yakiniku Hiro

May 21 A New Twist on Playing Catch

May 20 The Kongourinji Temple: Main Garden, and Beyond...

May 19 Revisiting Imabari's Colorful Towel Museum

May 18 Old and Odd Tools at the Smithy

May 17 Pierre Nadeau, Japanese Swordsmith

May 16 Swordsmith Workshop "What am I?" Quiz

May 13 Big Lens at the River: Focusing on Disappointment

May 11 Me and My Little Lens

May 10 A Little Cold-Forging Metal Work

May 10 Disaster-Relief Charity Sale in Kyoto, May 28th

May 9 Kyoto Station Evening at 300mm f/2

May 8 More Street Photography at 300mm f/2

May 7 This "What am I?" Quiz Will Stump You

May 7 Street Photography (Sort of) In Roppongi Hills

May 4 A Bit of Summer Volcano Skiing

May 4 Scott Kelby Responds, Dazzling With His Marketing Magic

May 4 Misty Evening in Rural Japan

May 2 Red, Green, and Black "What am I?" Quiz

Apr 30 Imabari Day 2: Dougo Onsen Hot Springs

Apr 28 Class Trip to Enjoy the Views at Shogunzuka

Apr 26 Exploring the Sharper Side of the Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5

Apr 25 My New Lightroom Plugin: as Close to "Layers in Lightroom" as You're Going To Get

Apr 23 The Amazing Marketing Power of Scott Kelby

Apr 22 Imabari Trip Day 2: Bridge Bicycle Ride Part 2

Apr 21 Imabari Trip Day 2: Bridge Bicycle Ride Part 1

Apr 19 New Pet, New Ordeals

Apr 18 Revisiting the Road to Imabari: The View from Mt. Takanawa

Apr 17 Another Cherry-Blossom Stroll on a Lazy Kyoto Sunday

Apr 16 Important Note for Nikon D3/D700/D300 Shooters Who Use Lightroom or Photoshop

Apr 15 Revisiting the Road to Imabari: Stops #1 and #2

Apr 14 Cherry Blossoms Fall and the Kids Play

Apr 12 The Towel Museum in Imabari Japan, Part 2

Apr 11 Exploring the Edge of Creamy Macro Bokeh with Lily of the Nile

Apr 11 The Towel Museum in Imabari Japan, Part 1

Apr 10 Lunch Under the Cherry Blossoms

Apr 9 An Amazing Day of Photography at Some Eastern-Kyoto Temples

Apr 8 Mountain Play with Monet and Friends

Apr 7 Cherry Blossoms Welcome Us Back to Kyoto

Apr 6 More Challenging Imabari "What am I?" Quiz

Apr 5 Simple Imabari "What am I?" Quiz

Apr 5 On The Road to Imabari

Apr 2 More Blossoms in Kyoto, More Quakes out East

Mar 29 It Has Begun: Cherry Blossoms Appear in Kyoto

Mar 27 Anthony Finishes Second Grade

Mar 27 Anthony's Sleeping Giraffe

Mar 26 Camo Duck in Black and White

Mar 25 Kyoto Cherry Blossoms on the Verge

Mar 24 Anthony Lego World #27

Mar 21 Our Little Fish

Mar 18 Tough Week in Japan: Earthquake Timelapse March 11-17

Mar 17 Scaremongering in the Western Press

Mar 15 Another Quake in Japan, This Time Near Mt. Fuji

Mar 15 Inspiration in the Midst of Indescribable Heartbreak

Mar 14 Simple Beauty in the Japanese Countryside

Mar 13 The Hope of Cherry Blossoms in Japan

Mar 12 Google-Earth Locations For Some of the Japan Quake Photos

Mar 11 Today's Quakes in Japan

Mar 10 Finally: My Faux-Mat Photoshop Script is Out

Mar 4 Surprising Early Cherry-Blossom Preview Hits Kyoto

Mar 3 Dual-Orientation "Wall of Relaxation" Desktop Background

Mar 2 Orbitz is Pure Evil

Feb 26 Simple Wood Carving on a Rural Shrine's Gate

Feb 25 Stark Tree

Feb 23 Signs of Spring Start to Bud in Kyoto

Feb 22 Exploring Kyoto's Northern Mountains with Vaughn Hart

Feb 21 Still a Bit Of Snow In Kyoto (Sort Of)

Feb 18 Lookin' Stylish for an Eight Year Old...

Feb 16 Dabbling in Some Fine-Art Printing for My Office

Feb 14 Without Fate: Dumping Ground of Monumental Proportions

Feb 8 A Bridge, and a Couple of Non-Bridges, in the Snow

Feb 5 The Unassuming "Ice Room" Himuro Shrine

Feb 4 Is There Some (Blending-Mode?) Magic to This Photoshop Problem?

Feb 3 Pretty Flowers as Filler

Jan 29 Wrapping Up Shoudoshima Island and 2010

Jan 26 Rainy Day on Shoudoshima Island

Jan 21 Moonrise & Sunrise over Shoudoshima

Jan 19 Overstuffed Leafy Snow Tacos

Jan 18 The Great Kamo River Battle for the Bread

Jan 17 Feeding Frenzy on the Kamo River

Jan 13 Hotel Aqua, on Shoudoshima Island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea

Jan 11 Balmer's "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance." Quote

Jan 10 On The Way To The Kongourinji Temple's Main Garden

Jan 7 A Belated Christmas Post

Jan 4 When You Tempt Fate, Sometimes You Lose

Jan 2 An Aquatic "What am I?" Quiz

Jan 1 Our 2011 New Year's Card

Posts In 2010

Dec 31 One Week as a Microcosm for the Year

Dec 31 Photos Appearing in 2010

Dec 24 Shogo and Namiko's Wedding Wrapup

Dec 21 Sort of New Lightroom Plugin: Major Update to my Picasa Face-Recognition-Data Import Plugin

Dec 19 Shorn

Dec 17 Deep Sorrow at the Kongourinji Temple's Path of Jizou

Dec 16 Only in Japan? It Boggles The Mind To Wonder What Laws Allow This To Happen

Dec 13 Shockingly Wasteful Packaging from Amazon

Dec 12 New Lightroom Plugin: JPEG Export Quality Tester

Dec 12 Visiting "Yama no Ie Hasegawa" with the Family

Dec 8 Kyoto Mountain Restaurant "Yama no Ie Hasegawa"

Dec 6 Carpet of Yellow at the Iwato Ochiba Shrine, Deep in the Mountains of North-West Kyoto

Dec 3 Fun With Mirrors at the Kyoto Science Museum

Nov 30 Zipping a Lock on Cheap, Simple Waterproof Protection For Your iPad/iPhone

Nov 29 Photo Shoot Among the Fall Colors at Shouzan in Kyoto

Nov 28 Going Vertical: Portrait-Mode Desktop Backgrounds

Nov 26 Colorful Carpet of Leaves at the Koutou-in Temple

Nov 26 Nishimura Stone Carvers, Autumn 2010 Edition

Nov 23 Short Family Visit to the Middle-of-Nowhere Sokushouji Temple

Nov 21 Beating the Crowds at the Middle-of-Nowhere Sokushouji Temple

Nov 20 Another Look at the Bazillion Offering Statuettes at Kyoto's Sanzen-in Temple

Nov 18 Another Amazing Trip To Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Temple

Nov 16 Visiting The Eikando Temple's Evening Foliage Lightup with Sergey Kolychev

Nov 15 Creating Photo Books with Lightroom, InDesign, and Blurb

Nov 14 New Photoshop Templates for 2011 Calendars

Nov 12 Autumn Colors Desktop Background, and a "What am I?" Quiz

Nov 11 A First Visit To Kyoto's Koutou-in Temple

Nov 10 Today's Most-Excellent Adventures: Temple Hopping in the Mountains of South-Western Kyoto

Nov 9 First Taste of Fall Colors at Shiga's Amazing Kongourinji Temple

Nov 8 Bridges Across a Small Valley in Konan

Nov 7 Namiko Candid Bride Portrait

Nov 7 Yodobashi Camera Opens in Kyoto

Nov 2 KidZania Visit #3, Part 2

Nov 1 KidZania Visit #3, Part 1

Oct 31 Kyoto's Slightly Odd Tanukitanisan Fudouin Temple

Oct 31 Federal Express is Useless in Japan

Oct 29 Around the Kyoto's Daitokuji Temple Complex

Oct 28 Couple'a New Lightroom Plugins: Bulk Develop, and Order Prints Locally

Oct 28 Jeffrey's "Bulk Develop Settings" Lightroom Plugin

Oct 27 Well, Well, Well, a Small Self Portrait

Oct 27 A Bit of Tai Chi at the Heian Shrine

Oct 25 Flower Arranging Exhibition, Revisited (Part 2)

Oct 24 Anthony's Eighth Birthday, Sponsored by LEGO™ Toys

Oct 15 Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part V (Entertainment)

Oct 14 Lunch Along the Kamo River, Try #2

Oct 13 Lunch Along the Kamo River

Oct 12 Kids Flower Arranging Exhibition, Revisited

Oct 11 Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part IV (Mingling)

Oct 10 Happy Anniversary to Fumie's Folks: When 10-10-10 is 36

Oct 9 Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part III (Interlude)

Oct 7 Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part II (Cutting of the Cake)

Oct 6 Reading with the iPad: iBooks, Kindle, and Nook, oh my!

Oct 5 Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part I

Oct 4 Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Hors d'Oeuvre Reception

Oct 3 Fumie's Brother Shogo Weds Namiko

Sep 29 Anthony and His Tree, 2010

Sep 27 Bonking the Biggest Mokugyou In the World

Sep 25 Straight Lines of Crunchy Round Herring

Sep 25 Crossing the Komaki Dam

Sep 23 Still More From Our Visit to Sunainosato in Shiga

Sep 22 Highly Recommended: GGS Glass Screen Protector, and GreenLife Style eBay Store

Sep 20 Bowling with Gen

Sep 20 Underwhelmed With Northern Kyoto's Jakkoin Temple

Sep 18 Breakdown: When Good Intentions Don't Scale

Sep 11 A Couple of Striking Photos

Sep 4 No Posts for a While

Aug 31 Clearing Vines

Aug 29 Back In Kyoto 2010: Big Clouds (and a Big Bird Poop)

Aug 26 Rocky "What am I?" Quiz

Aug 25 40 Years of Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 Lenses

Aug 23 Rock Climbing at Katie Patterson's Birthday Party

Aug 22 The Surprise of Queen Anne's Lace

Aug 21 Swimming-Pool Play With Friends

Aug 18 Little Flowers, Little Context

Aug 16 Goldfinches on a Feeder

Aug 15 A Bit of iPad Air Hockey

Aug 14 Aren't There Any iPad Apps to Help Japanese Kids Study Kanji?

Aug 13 "Uzu" iPad App Reviewed By 23-Month-Old Jena Kreta

Aug 12 More Josh-and-Anthony Water Play

Aug 11 Jogging with Grandpa, 2010 Edition

Aug 11 Squirt Gun Water Fight

Aug 10 Random Summer Fun

Aug 10 Jeffrey's "Order Prints Locally" Lightroom Plugin

Aug 9 Anthony By an Old Tree

Aug 7 Monster Marshmallow

Aug 7 Torture Spelled “ S · i · s · t · e · r ”

Aug 6 Impromptu Chickadee Portraiture: Better Luck Next Time

Aug 5 Late-Night Tower Destruction Play

Aug 5 Fallen-Tree Removal, Day Two

Aug 4 Cousin Jena at the Lake

Aug 3 Anthony's Home Run Derby

Aug 3 Monster Play

Aug 3 The Search

Aug 2 Doing a Puzzle

Aug 1 Anthony's Cousins Josh and Jena

Aug 1 Cousins Josh and Jena Arrive

Aug 1 Just Released Some Simple JSON Encode/Decode Routines in Pure Lua

Aug 1 Simple JSON Encode/Decode in Pure Lua

Jul 30 KidZania Visit #2 Wrapup: Construction and Health-Care Aid

Jul 30 New Lightroom Plugin in Beta: Tree Publisher

Jul 30 Jeffrey's "Tree Publisher" Lightroom Plugin

Jul 28 My Morning: Birds, Flowers, Coffee, and my Camera

Jul 27 Clearing Away the Fallen Tree, Part 1

Jul 26 Oh Deer, What Happened Here?

Jul 26 Medium Tree, Big Mess

Jul 25 Rich Colors at Dusk

Jul 25 Uncle Alan's Birthday Cake

Jul 25 Feeding The Birds (at Their Behest)

Jul 25 A Visit From Cousin Felicity

Jul 23 The Location May Be Different, But....

Jul 22 A Few Japanese Swords of Note

Jul 20 Just-Arrived-After-a-Long-Flight "What am I?" Quiz

Jul 17 Golden "What am I?" Quiz

Jul 16 Kyoto Kamo River Flooding: Sanjo

Jul 14 Kyoto's Kamo River Goes a Bit Wild

Jul 13 Cosina Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 125mm F2.5 SL

Jul 12 New Writeup: Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality

Jul 9 Note to Papa

Jul 4 Night Shift at the Bakery

Jul 2 Fighting Fires, KidZania Style

Jul 1 Snowy New Year Trip Day Three: Dam Snow

Jun 28 Appliance Repair at KidZania

Jun 26 More From Sunainosato in Shiga

Jun 26 Disorienting "What am I?" Quiz

Jun 25 Geometric Awaji

Jun 25 Back in the Saddle With a Wonderful Sunset

Jun 23 This is Getting Silly: New "Metadata Viewer" Lightroom Plugin

Jun 23 A Bit of Color and Thunder

Jun 20 New Lightroom Plugin, "PhotoSafe", Guards Selected Photos Against Accidental Deletion

Jun 8 Lightroom 3 Released; Update on my Plugins

Jun 4 Brad Kremer's “Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan”

May 30 Driving a Train at KidZania

May 28 Anthony's Radio Show

May 28 First Shots with a Cosina Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5

May 24 Cafe at Sunainosato in Southern Shiga, Japan

May 24 Doggy Funeral

May 21 A "What am I?" Quiz at 1000mm

May 19 Late Afternoon on Awaji Island's Matsubara Beach

May 17 Anniversary Lunch, at Kyoto's Quarirengué Cafe

May 15 Got My Lens Back From Sigma

May 14 Awaji "Hyakudanen": 100 Terraced Garden Squares

May 12 Haircut: Second-Grader is Easier than a Two-Year-Old

May 11 The Westin on Awaji Island

May 9 Pretty Flowers to Brighten the Day

May 9 Shaver Recommendation: Gillette Fusion Power

May 8 Egg-Slicer "What am I?" Quiz

May 7 Lies, Damn Lies, and Photographs

May 7 An Unfortunate Sigma "Bigma" Enigma

May 5 Children's Day Cake

May 5 Akashi Straights Bridge: Longest Parking Lot in the World

May 4 Yabusame Mounted Archer, Revisited

May 4 "Yabusame" Mounted Archery Rite at the Shimogamo Shrine

May 3 Jeffrey's "Export to KODAK Gallery" Lightroom Plugin

May 1 Beware of Wild Boar

May 1 Morning Rush Hour on Osaka Bay

Apr 30 Sunset from Awaji Island

Apr 28 Daimonji Hike 2010, Part 1

Apr 28 Automatic Lens Correction Coming to Lightroom 3!

Apr 26 Sigma Bigma's New Optical Stabilization

Apr 25 A Bit of Drama on Mt. Daimonji

Apr 25 Freaky Wavy Lines Quiz Answer

Apr 23 Heron at the Canal

Apr 21 Walkabout with the Sigma Bigma: Versatility Galore

Apr 21 I Laugh at Your Puny 500mm Lens: Sigma Bigma at 1,000mm

Apr 19 Keeping Sextuplets in Line is Like Herding Cats

Apr 18 Amorphous Wavy Lines Quiz

Apr 17 My New Sigma "Bigma", Day 2

Apr 17 So, Just How Bigma is the Sigma?

Apr 16 Sigma's new "Bigma" 50-500mm Super-tele Zoom, Part II

Apr 14 Sigma's new "Bigma" 50-500mm Super-tele Zoom (now with OS)

Apr 13 New Camera! Now I Can Finally Dump Nikon

Apr 12 Bridge Over Icy Water

Apr 6 Fistfuls of Blossoms in Urban Kyoto

Apr 5 Anthony Growing Up: the Tipping Point

Apr 5 Just One More and We'll Call it a Wrap

Apr 3 Finally, a Sunny Day in Kyoto for the Blossoms, Tourists, and Cameras to Come Out

Mar 30 Night River Cherry Blossoms, and a Movie Shoot

Mar 29 Cherry Blossoms in the Driving Snow

Mar 29 Gettin' Freaky With Lightroom Tone-Curve Presets

Mar 27 Stupid Tone-Curve Tricks: A Half Dozen Develop Presets for Lightroom

Mar 26 Kyoto Cherry Blossoms Off to a Cold, Wet Start

Mar 25 The Limestone Caves of Ishigaki Island

Mar 23 Lightroom 3 Beta 2 and My Plugins

Mar 21 Anthony Finishes First Grade

Mar 19 Fumie's Birthday Cake

Mar 16 A Visit to the Yaeyama Palm Reserve on Ishigaki Island

Mar 14 Snowy New-Year Trip: Start of Day Three

Mar 10 Zachary Braverman Shakuhachi Concert

Mar 9 Most Evil Snack: Boukun Habanero

Mar 5 Snowy Goodbye to Shirakawago Village

Mar 3 Clearing Roof Snow in Shirakawago

Mar 2 First Look at Snowy Shirakawago Village

Feb 28 Snowy Quiz of Questionable Appeal

Feb 27 Speed Trap, Japanese Style

Feb 26 Short Hike in the Mossy Forest of North-East Kyoto

Feb 24 “Wild Boar”, Free Audio Book by Anthony Friedl

Feb 23 Groggy

Feb 21 Snowy Farewell to Gokayama Village

Feb 20 Rich Colors Amid the Dull of Winter: Earnest Barr's February Cherry Blossoms

Feb 19 Batting Practice on the Slopes

Feb 18 A Bit More Sledding

Feb 13 Bed of Moss and Ferns, Revisited

Feb 12 More Sledding at Makino Ski Area

Feb 11 Self Portrait at a Distance

Feb 10 Road to Now: My Long Path To Lightroom Plugin Development

Feb 10 Woo-Hoo, Apple Releases Aperture 3!

Feb 8 A Visit to the Makino Ski Area, Part 2

Feb 7 A Visit to the Makino Ski Area, Part 1

Feb 6 Today's First Photo...

Feb 5 "How's the Economy?", Japanese Style

Feb 5 Stone Sphere

Feb 3 Deceptively Clear: Snow-Covered Mountains in Exquisite Detail

Feb 1 Steep Steps in Gokayama Village

Jan 31 Anthony Makes His First Communion

Jan 31 Hot Noodles in Gokayama

Jan 29 Snowy Gokayama Village, Part II

Jan 29 Disappointed with the iPad's Unveiling

Jan 27 Snowy Mountains

Jan 27 On the Permanence of One's Online (and Offline) Presence

Jan 25 Shutter Speed's Effect on Falling Snow

Jan 24 Rosy Cheeks

Jan 23 Japan's Deep-Rooted Ethos of Fire Prevention

Jan 22 Introduction to a Snowy Gokayama Village

Jan 21 Some Kind of Snow & Face Picture

Jan 20 Anthony's "Idea Award"

Jan 18 Some Things Are The Same The World Over

Jan 17 Driving Snow

Jan 15 Anthony Art Project: A Fish That Can Suck In Anything!!!

Jan 12 First Taste of Snow on Our New Year's Trip

Jan 9 Anthony's Sports-Day Drawing

Jan 8 Theme For Our New Year's Trip

Jan 7 Back Home After a Short Trip

Jan 3 Breakfast in Okinawa

Jan 3 Four Generations for New Year's Dinner

Jan 2 Saw Avatar This Evening

Jan 1 Our 2010 New Year's Card

Posts In 2009

Dec 31 Cherry Blossoms Amid the Fall Foliage

Dec 31 Photos Appearing in 2009

Dec 30 Smoothly Curved Water Basins: To Moss or Not, That Is The Question

Dec 29 Anthony Gets Crabby at the Shore

Dec 28 Taketomi Island Roundup

Dec 27 Zany Roof Guardians on Taketomi Island, in the Far South of Japan

Dec 25 A Calm and Pleasant Christmas

Dec 24 All Ready for Santa

Dec 24 Stone Carvings: Curves, Crowns, an Ouchie, and More...

Dec 22 Another Stone "What am I?" Quiz: Star Destroyer!

Dec 21 On Darwin and the March Toward Winter

Dec 20 Answer to the Stone-Puzzle "What am I?" Quiz

Dec 19 Thatched Roofs and Colored Canopies at the Himukai Shrine, Kyoto Japan

Dec 17 Changing Seasons, Changing Lenses

Dec 16 Layers, Strata, and More: Thanks for the Captions

Dec 16 Visiting the Back-Mountain Hiyoshi Shrine with Jon Van Dalen

Dec 15 Released the Picasa Face-Recognition Plugin for Lightroom, FWIW

Dec 15 Sleeping with Curious George: A Short Timeline

Dec 13 Photo in Need of a Caption

Dec 12 Crafty Clay Play with Mommy

Dec 10 A Superficial Overview of the Gardens Behind the Nishimura Stone-Carving Workshop

Dec 9 Stone Puzzle "What am I?" Quiz

Dec 9 How to Make an Entire Day Evaporate

Dec 7 Stonecarver Daizo Nishimura at Work

Dec 7 Giving Up on Picasa Face Recognition

Dec 5 The Boundless Potential of Nishimura Stone Lanterns' Back Garden

Dec 4 Paul Barr + Stonecarver's Garden + Lightroom

Dec 3 Nishimura Stone Lanterns: Garden Preview

Dec 2 A Few Outtakes from the Nitenji Temple

Dec 2 Nishimura Stone Lanterns: the Workshop

Dec 1 Fairly Dirty "What am I?" Quiz

Nov 30 Mysterious Cut Stones in the Mountains of Kyoto

Nov 29 Fall Colors in Nature, as Nature Intended

Nov 28 Gate of Disrepair: Kanda Inari Shrine (at the Himukai Shrine, Kyoto)

Nov 27 NASA Meets Kyoto: Zoom with a View

Nov 27 Badminton in the Park: Bikeride to the Kyoto Imperial Palace

Nov 26 Anthony's New Plush-Toy Friend: Welcome Buta-chan!

Nov 26 And so 6½ Becomes 7: Welcome Claire Ann Friedl

Nov 25 Apple Time Capsule: Be Sure To Use Good Cabling

Nov 25 Teeming Throngs Enjoying the Colors at Kyoto's Eikando Temple

Nov 24 One More Lightroom Plugin: Focal-length Sort

Nov 24 More From Yesterday's Trip to the Eikando Temple

Nov 23 Holy Cow, the Gardens at Kyoto's Eikando Temple are Gorgeous!

Nov 21 Family Bike Outing on a Brisk, Blustery Kyoto Afternoon

Nov 21 In Search of Yoshida Shrine

Nov 19 Anthony-Designed Three-Seater StarWars™ Figher Ship

Nov 17 Serendipity: Pleasant Sunday Morning at Kyoto's Yoshida Shrine

Nov 17 New WordPress Plugin: "Time Since"

Nov 16 Box of Birthday Presents From Aunt Natalie and Uncle Alan!

Nov 15 A Couple of “Cozy” Houses in the Neighborhood

Nov 15 Purple Glowing Flower

Nov 14 A Few "Autumn in Kyoto" Mood Shots

Nov 14 A Fall-Foliage Visit to the Hakuryuuen Gardens (sort of)

Nov 13 Anthony's Birthday Presents

Nov 12 FYI: 2010 Calendar Photoshop Files

Nov 11 Tokyo Disneyland: Riding the Roller Coaster By Himself (sort of)

Nov 10 Windows Woes on my Mac

Nov 9 Anthony Is Starting To Read English

Nov 9 Visit to Tokyo Disneyland: the Second Day

Nov 8 Visit to Tokyo Disneyland: the First Night

Nov 7 Off on a Short Trip (a week ago)

Nov 6 Web-Browsing Sluggishes on Mac: Disable DNS IPv6 in Firefox

Nov 3 My New Mac: Behold the Awesomeness!

Nov 1 Interactive Map of My Blog Photos

Oct 28 Starting to See Splashes of Fall Colors in Kyoto

Oct 28 Ditching the Ball and Chain and Escaping From the Windows™

Oct 26 Kyoto Jidai Matsuri Photos by Stéphane Barbery

Oct 25 Anthony Turns 7: Birthday Cake

Oct 22 Plate Full of Autumn

Oct 22 Adobe Lightroom 3: Beta Plugin Info

Oct 21 Anthony Turns 7 (a couple of days early)

Oct 19 Anthony's Shichi-go-san Event: Family Portrait

Oct 18 Laundry Day

Oct 17 Anthony's Shichi-go-san Event: First Steps

Oct 17 Yet Another New Lightroom Plugin: Extended Search

Oct 16 New Lightroom Plugin: Focal-length Plot

Oct 15 Getting Ready For Anthony's Shichi-go-san Event

Oct 13 Anthony Gesture in B&W at the Heian Shrine

Oct 12 Anthony's Shichi-Go-San Hakama Portrait

Oct 11 Sukiyaki at Kyoto's Moritaya Restaurant

Oct 10 Busy Photo Day: Stairs, Duds, Sabers, and Cheers!

Oct 9 Anthony Coming Home From the Bus Stop

Oct 7 Anthony Rowing the Boat... Sort Of

Oct 5 Anthony's First Grade-School Sports Festival

Sep 28 Two Sides of the Same Photo

Sep 28 More Discoveries with Nils: Mountain Roads and Spooky Forests

Sep 24 Anthony's Diary: Praise for Teacher

Sep 23 Nils Ferry, and Japanese Wedding Ceremonies

Sep 22 Delighting in a Chasm Between Artistic Senses

Sep 21 Eclectic Photo Geeks at the Eclectic Music Concert

Sep 20 An Evening of Eclectic Music Fusion

Sep 17 A Bit of Paragliding in Kyoto's Northern Mountains

Sep 16 The Hakuryuuen Gardens (Sort of)

Sep 15 Well, That Wasn't Fun

Sep 11 A Visit to Rengeji Temple with Nils Ferry

Sep 10 Final Images from the Toganojaya Restaurant

Sep 9 Toganojaya Restaurant, Part 2

Sep 8 Toganojaya Restaurant, Kyoto Japan

Sep 7 Table with a View

Sep 5 Three Blades of Grass, and Friends

Sep 2 Quicky Passport-Photo Photo Session

Sep 1 Back in Kyoto, 2009 Edition

Aug 29 Anthony and His Tree, 2009

Aug 29 Jogging with Grandpa, 2009 Edition

Aug 28 Disappointed with Bill Bryson

Aug 28 Santa-Clause Wishes, and Photography Practice

Aug 27 Grace and Luke's Turn in the Boat

Aug 27 Boat Ride for Anthony and Josh

Aug 26 Hosing Down a Dirty Boat

Aug 25 Final Approach into Tokyo Narita

Aug 24 Katie's Birthday Party: Curls 'n Bowling

Aug 23 Geese in Final Approach

Aug 22 Painting T-Shirts with Aunt Natalie

Aug 21 Letter to Mommy

Aug 16 Four Siblings Easier than Six Cousins

Aug 15 Six Cousins: Thoughts on Kid Group Photos

Aug 12 Wide-Angle Summer Fun

Aug 11 Rockets Away: Two Model-Rocket Launches

Aug 11 Cousins Driving Each Other (Crazy)

Aug 10 Aunt Chickee and the 61⁄2th Cousin

Aug 9 Can't Get Any Work Done With Birds on my Laptop

Aug 9 Big-Boy Anthony: Sans One Tooth

Aug 8 Luke's Eyes

Aug 8 Pretty (and Mysterious?) Water "Shadows"

Aug 8 Kiddy Pool

Aug 8 Life without the Internet: Living in the Stone Age

Aug 6 Basics of Life: A Bit of Real Appreciation

Aug 6 Loose Tooth

Aug 5 Other World Computing On-The-Go Pro External Disk Housing

Aug 3 Tractor Ride

Aug 2 Throwin' Rocks

Aug 1 Joe Cool Anthony and a Toad House

Aug 1 More Cousins 'n Such, #2

Jul 31 Conflagration of Cousins

Jul 31 Visiting with Cousin Felicity

Jul 29 Baseball With Uncle Alan

Jul 29 Keeping the Geese in Line

Jul 28 A Bit of Water-Hose Play

Jul 28 In Ohio for the Summer

Jul 28 More Corrupt Memory-Card Woes

Jul 24 Ishigaki Day 3: Coral Beds Near Taketomi Island

Jul 23 KidZania Wrapup: Graphic Design and a Pizza Dinner

Jul 22 Today's Total Solar Eclipse, and a Rant about Japanese Culture

Jul 21 New Lightroom Plugin: Export-to-Photobucket

Jul 21 Kidzania Flight School

Jul 20 River Play and Kana-chan's First Bike Ride

Jul 18 Ishigaki Day 3: A Coral Wall's Plants

Jul 17 New Lightroom Plugin: Export to Expono

Jul 15 Ishigaki Day 3: Floral Quiz on Taketomi Island

Jul 12 Ishigaki Day 2: Through Anthony's Eyes

Jul 11 Investigative Reporting, KidZania Style

Jul 11 Curious George's New Passport

Jul 10 Serenity: a New Old Desktop Background

Jul 8 Driver's License for a Six-Year Old

Jul 6 Playing in the Rain

Jul 3 Anthony's KidZania Job #2: Construction Work

Jul 1 Getting a Little Banking Done at KidZania

Jul 1 Anthony's First "Job" at KidZania

Jun 29 They Grow Up So Quickly (but are still a bit green)

Jun 28 The Wonder of "KidZania"

Jun 26 Anthony's Sunflowers

Jun 25 Small Glimpse into Japanese Elementary School

Jun 24 Ishigaki Day 2: A Lively Dinner

Jun 22 New Lightroom Plugin: Video-Asset Management

Jun 19 Ishigaki Day 2: Winding Down with a Sunset Swim

Jun 18 Ishigaki Day 2: Mild Sunset

Jun 16 Ishigaki Day 2: Dynamic Weather at the Hirakubo Lighthouse

Jun 16 Anthony's First Test

Jun 15 Saturday Play in the Park with Monet and Gen

Jun 14 The Fruits of Saving: Spending Your Allowance

Jun 13 Tree With Really Thick, Crackly Bark

Jun 10 Anthony At "Bunny Island" With His Grandparents

Jun 7 A Bazillion Offering Statuettes at the Sanzen-in Temple

Jun 5 Secluded Beach on Ishigaki Island, Part II

Jun 4 Milk Drops

Jun 3 More Geekdome: Twitter OAuth Authentication Routines for Lightroom Plugins

Jun 2 A Better Center-Crosshair Target for Google Earth

Jun 2 Programming in the Stone Age: SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA1 in Pure Lua

Jun 1 Serenity at the Sanzen-in Temple

May 31 Pleasant Sunday: Family Bike Ride in Kyoto

May 29 Shocking! IE8 Is Just a Rebranded Version of Firefox

May 28 Insights from a 6yr old: Youth is Wasted on the Young

May 27 A Visit to Kyoto's Sanzen-in Temple, Part II

May 25 Desktop Backgrounds from Kyoto's Sanzen-in Temple

May 25 A Visit to Kyoto's Sanzen-in Temple

May 22 A Wii Bit of Trouble as the Swine Flu Engulfs Kyoto

May 21 Secluded Beach on Ishigaki Island, Part I

May 18 Ishigaki Day 2, Morning: Pineapples and the Tamatorisaki Lookout

May 17 Life is Tenacious: Tiny Ocean Flowers

May 16 Pitch-Black Photography: Moon over the East China Sea

May 15 First Dinner on Ishigaki: Ishigaki Steak Over Hot Coals

May 12 Rough Teas Ahead: Answer to the Linguistic Quiz

May 11 Big Ferns on Ishigaki Island

May 10 Ishigaki: Sunset from the Oganzaki Lighthouse

May 8 Linguistic Quiz: Japanese-to-English Translation Gone Bad

May 7 On The Road to Ishigakijima

May 4 Anthony's "Adventures of Craneman", #1

May 4 Back from Ishigaki

Apr 29 Heading South for a Few Days...

Apr 27 Discovering Kyoto's Mt. Yoshida

Apr 26 Query Current Location from Google Earth?

Apr 24 School Prep, and Another Bento

Apr 23 Simple Bamboo Fence

Apr 21 Cherry Blossoms in the Rain at the Heian Shrine, Part 2

Apr 19 Cherry Blossoms in the Rain at the Heian Shrine

Apr 18 Geometric "What am I?" Quiz

Apr 18 Very Green Ferris Wheel

Apr 17 "What am I?" Quiz, Monochromatic Edition

Apr 15 Ram Kulkarni at Kyoto's Shogunzuka Overlook

Apr 14 More From the Awaji Flower Review

Apr 14 Growing Up Quickly: Off To First Grade On His Own

Apr 13 I'm Not Really Sure What To Say...

Apr 12 Little Tamaki-chan in a Field of Violets

Apr 12 A Visit to Western Kyoto's Konzou Temple

Apr 10 A Pleasant Cherry-Blossom Morning in Kyoto

Apr 9 Anthony Starts First Grade

Apr 8 Strange Image Effect that I Don't Understand... Any Ideas?

Apr 8 A Few Flowers in Awaji

Apr 7 A Few Blossoms, A Few Friends

Apr 5 Evening Cherry Blossoms, and some White-Balance Gymnastics

Apr 5 Wet and Gloomy Cherry-Blossom Lightup in Kyoto

Apr 4 Fir Cones (Whatever Those Are)

Apr 3 "What am I?" Quiz: Nature Version

Apr 1 Cherry-Blossom "Snow", and Some So-So Desktop Backgrounds

Mar 30 Sneak Peek: New Lightroom Plugin

Mar 29 All Dressed Up in Kinosaki

Mar 27 Baking Birthday Cookies for Mommy

Mar 25 Ice Skating, Shopping, and an Important Bus Ride

Mar 23 Raising Crane in Otsu

Mar 22 Solid Steel "What am I?" Quiz

Mar 20 A Pleasant Day on Yabasekihantou, Part II

Mar 19 A Pleasant Day on Yabasekihantou, Part I

Mar 18 "Looks Like a Bunch of Bars" What-am-I? Quiz

Mar 16 Anthony's Kindergarten Graduation

Mar 15 Bigger than the Biggest Grapefruit You've Ever Seen

Mar 13 Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview, 2009

Mar 10 “Untitled, 2009”

Mar 8 Katz Eye Focus Screen Now Available for the D700!

Mar 7 Happy Birth Day, Felicity Jane Friedl

Mar 4 Kyoto's "I Fall" Tower

Mar 3 What am I? — Industrial Version

Mar 2 Takashima's Shirohige Shrine (sort of)

Feb 28 Overexposure and Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof

Feb 25 Okinawa's Atta Terrace Hotel

Feb 23 Curious George All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go

Feb 22 More Thin-Depth-of-Field Fun

Feb 20 Another Milestone on the Road to Growing Up

Feb 19 Anthony's Mad Soccer Skillz

Feb 15 Lightroom Plugin Development: Now With Added Encouragement

Feb 14 Anthony's First Solo Outing

Feb 14 Scenes from the Slopes

Feb 12 Main Gate of the Shirohige Shrine

Feb 11 It's Coming: Time on a Roll

Feb 10 Answer to the Previous "What am I?" Quiz

Feb 10 Anthony's First Ski Experience

Feb 8 Today's (Second) Quiz: What am I?

Feb 8 Spot-Metering Quiz

Feb 8 Spot On: Camera Metering Basics

Feb 6 Another Shogunzuka Sunset over Kyoto

Feb 4 More Bamboo

Feb 3 Lightroom Plugin Development: What To Do When a Hobby Becomes Work

Feb 2 Western-Kyoto Mountain Drive: Bamboo, Nostalgia, and More

Feb 1 Google's "My Maps" : Hidden Trove of Useful Treasures

Jan 31 Setsubun Mamemaki: Throwing of the Beans

Jan 31 A Visit to Okinawa's Kouri Island

Jan 29 Where Has the Basic Sense of Right and Wrong Gone?

Jan 29 Hello Kitty Restaurateur

Jan 28 Kyoto Plum-Blossom Status Report: Kitano Tenmangu Shrine

Jan 27 Cold, Wet, and Slippery in Kinosaki

Jan 27 Lightroom Plugin: Run-Any-Command Export Filter

Jan 26 Lightroom Plugin: Catalog Preview-Image Extraction Tool

Jan 25 Quiz: What am I?

Jan 24 Wall-E, a Spoon, a Bear, and a Kid

Jan 21 Coming of Age Day : Final Roundup

Jan 19 Lots of Crows at Kyoto's Shogunzuka Overlook

Jan 16 Late-Afternoon Sun from Kouri Island

Jan 15 Pushing Lowlight-Photography Limits: The Atta Terrace Hotel at Night

Jan 13 Coming of Age Day : Portraits

Jan 12 Japan's Coming of Age Day Holiday Spectacle

Jan 11 2009 Kyoto City Fire Department New-Year Parade (sort of)

Jan 10 In the Ballpark of Hope: Okinawan Grave In the Dark

Jan 9 Japanese Attention to Presentation

Jan 8 Thanks, Sony

Jan 8 Lonely Island in Okinawa (Desktop Background Bonus)

Jan 6 Japan's 2009 Cherry-Blossom Season Off to an Early Start

Jan 3 Common Sense: Blinded by Math

Jan 3 Grab-n-Go Meal

Posts In 2008

Dec 31 Kyoto's Haunted Hua Huan Museum

Dec 31 Photos Appearing in 2008

Dec 29 A Few Kyoto Entrances

Dec 28 Life and Death of a Small Wooden Tower

Dec 27 New Year's Tangerines on Cars, and More....

Dec 23 Kyoto Winter Preview, Part II

Dec 21 Snowy Quiz: What am I?

Dec 20 Trace of Fall Colors Still Remains in Kyoto

Dec 18 Kyoto Winter Preview (Sort Of)

Dec 16 LensAlign Focus-Calibration System

Dec 15 The Wonder of Japan's Open-Air Urinals

Dec 13 Japanese Shirts and Nonsensical English

Dec 12 No Motorcycles Allowed..... Sometimes... Sort of

Dec 11 Today's Photogenic Adventures in Kyoto

Dec 11 Autumn Colors Winding Down

Dec 9 Heavy Lifting: Supporting the Longest Suspension Bridge in the World

Dec 9 Today's Quiz: What am I (besides colorful hexagons)?

Dec 7 Burning Relief: The Outside Walls of Kyoto's Murin'an Garden

Dec 6 A Rant about "Free Photography" Rants

Dec 4 More From the Real Shogunzuka

Dec 3 Recovering Photos from a Corrupt Memory Card with PhotoRec

Dec 2 Thoughts on Japan from a First-Time Visitor

Nov 29 A Rocket, Periscope, and other Presents from Grandma and Grandpa

Nov 29 The Real Shougunzuka Kyoto Overlook

Nov 27 Abandoned House Returning To Nature

Nov 27 On The Path To Daimonji: Where the City Ends

Nov 25 Large Wooden Gate Repair

Nov 24 Playing at BørneLund with Gen

Nov 23 Mountain Drive to Hiyoshi Dam (with Desktop-Background Bonuses)

Nov 22 Visiting the Shrine in Kibune with Thomas

Nov 21 The Neighbor's Tree

Nov 19 Eizan Train Line's "Fall-Foliage Tunnel" Lightup

Nov 19 Kyoto's Annual Neutering of the Trees

Nov 18 Not Quite Giving Up on Sunsets..... Yet

Nov 18 Thanks Dmitry, The Post is Visible Now!

Nov 17 Anthony's Birthday Helicopter And Some Creativity

Nov 16 More From the Eikando Temple Foliage Lightup

Nov 15 How I Spent My Saturday in Kyoto

Nov 14 More Kids in Kimono: Still Cute

Nov 13 Amazing Technology of Old: Large Wooden Gear

Nov 13 Jerks At Gizmodo: Way Uncool

Nov 12 Kids in Kimono: Cute Enough to Eat

Nov 12 Today's Sunset in Kyoto: Ho-Hum & Yawn

Nov 11 Still Waiting for Fall Colors in Kyoto

Nov 11 Anthony's Interesting Style Choice

Nov 11 Today's Sunset: the Deepest, Truest Orange I Have Ever Seen

Nov 11 Soft-Focus Flower Arrangement

Nov 9 Ordination of Sister Yukari Saikawa

Nov 8 Visiting Kibune with Thomas

Nov 7 Thomas Hertel in Kyoto: Taste of Fall at Dusk

Nov 3 Mommy Teaches Anthony to Jump from a Swing

Nov 2 Seeking Fall Colors in the Mountains

Nov 1 Fish That Looks Like an Apple Pie

Oct 29 Finally, Geoencoding in Lightroom! Announcing my GPS-Support Plugin

Oct 27 Anthony's English Homework

Oct 26 Anthony's Birthday Helicopter

Oct 23 Anthony Turns Six

Oct 21 Serendipitous Fun with Adobe Lightroom

Oct 21 PuriPuri-chan: Swallowtail Butterfly From Start to Finish

Oct 21 iFail: iPhone Photo Viewer is Mostly Worthless

Oct 18 Lightroom "GPS Proximity Search" Plugin

Oct 18 Note to Mommy II

Oct 16 Kyoto 2008 Fall Foliage Preview, Part III

Oct 15 Anthony's First All-by-Himself Letter

Oct 14 Anthony's Helicopter Ride

Oct 12 Kid Play: "Tractor Treader" Blow Up Rolly Thing

Oct 11 Perfect Weather for a Snooze on a Park Bench

Oct 10 Kyoto 2008 Fall Foliage Preview, Part II

Oct 9 Pop Dancer

Oct 8 Waterfall Wall

Oct 6 Backing Up My Photos With Lightroom and Zenfolio

Oct 6 New Server Hardware

Oct 4 Random Pictures from Around Japan

Oct 3 Modern Woodworking, Circa 1830

Oct 1 Updates on My PayPal and Apple Woes

Sep 30 Slippery Green Slidy Day of Fun

Sep 28 Magic and Go Carts at Shiga's "Blume-no-Oka"

Sep 27 Car and a Nice Sunset

Sep 26 Apple Customer Care: Making Strides in Automated Cluelessness

Sep 25 Kyoto Fall Foliage Preview

Sep 24 D700 at Dusk: Bike Ride, Etc.

Sep 24 The Image of Cute Kids, Japanese Style

Sep 22 Memory Lane: My First Macro Attempts

Sep 20 Camera Tutorial: How to Ruin Your Shots (Before You Even Take Them!)

Sep 20 Lightroom 2.1 (Release Candidate)

Sep 19 A Few More D700 f/1.2 Night Shots

Sep 18 Visiting Joan in Vancouver

Sep 17 Movie Shoot

Sep 17 "Flash Sync Speed" and Other Mysteries Explained

Sep 16 Power-Ranger Anthony

Sep 15 Impossible Photography: No Light, No Tripod, No Hope. D700 and a 50mm f/1.2

Sep 13 Welcome Baby Jena

Sep 13 I Now Love my iPhone

Sep 12 More Playground Fun

Sep 11 I Got an iPhone, but...

Sep 10 View from the Window Seat

Sep 9 Back in Kyoto (2008 Edition)

Sep 6 One Intersection, Two Starbucks

Sep 5 Congrats! My Sister is Expecting a Baby

Sep 4 Surreal (and exceedingly unpleasant) PayPal Experience

Sep 4 Nikon D3 Shutter Release in Super Slow Motion

Sep 2 A Short, Wet Trip Up Whistler Mountain

Sep 1 The Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver

Aug 31 Old Farm

Aug 29 Cattail and Clouds

Aug 28 Kid Play in Whistler: Bungee Trampoline

Aug 28 The Four Seasons Resort, Whistler

Aug 26 What am I?

Aug 24 "Lost Lake" Bike Ride in Whistler

Aug 23 "Deluxe Executive Suite" at the Four Seasons, Whistler

Aug 21 Vancouver Aquarium

Aug 20 Visiting Vancouver

Aug 18 Jogging with Grandpa, Again

Aug 18 Leaves Stripped Clean

Aug 17 Sharp-Dressed (Five-year-old) Man

Aug 16 Life and Death of a Sand Castle, Part III: Destruction

Aug 15 Life and Death of a Sand Castle, Part II: Expansion

Aug 13 Life and Death of a Sand Castle: Part I

Aug 12 Feeding the Birds

Aug 11 More Dynamic Clouds, and a Small Rainbow

Aug 10 Pretty Clouds, and the Frustration of Trying to Photograph Them

Aug 9 Boston Globe's The Big Picture, and the Photography Olympics

Aug 8 Coloring With Grandma

Aug 7 Jogging with Grandpa

Aug 6 Why Does "Brightness" Wash Colors to White?

Aug 6 "Don't Confuse Me With The Facts": Image Linking and Distribution

Aug 5 Brilliant Flower, Not-so-Brilliant Processing

Aug 4 A Merry-go-Round, Fill Flash, and Too Fast a Shutter

Aug 3 Midlife Chryslers in Concert

Aug 1 Funky Joy With Adobe Lightroom

Jul 31 Not Really Singing in the Rain

Jul 30 More Cousin Play: Big Playground in Stow

Jul 30 Bubble Play with Aunt Natalie

Jul 29 Lots of New Toys with Lightroom 2.0

Jul 28 Darn, Forgot to Bring My Camera

Jul 27 More Play with Cousin Josh

Jul 26 In Ohio for the Summer

Jul 24 Heading to The States...

Jul 23 Making a Difference, One Day at a Time

Jul 23 Tomato Harvest 2008

Jul 22 River Play with Greg

Jul 21 Hot and Lazy Summer Day in Kyoto

Jul 20 Hyperaccessorized Car

Jul 20 Yoko-chan's Singing Event

Jul 19 Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

Jul 19 Pretty Pictures: Announcing My Photostreams

Jul 17 The Mystery of Japanese Road Repair

Jul 16 Camping with Anthony: Final Wrapup

Jul 14 Nine-Dollar Cup of Coffee

Jul 13 Origami Water Lily

Jul 12 The Beauty of a Weathered Shrine Roof

Jul 10 Pretty Flowers, A Fly, and Some Onions

Jul 10 Jeffrey's Lightroom Goodies (Plugins and Tools)

Jul 8 "Temporarily Closed"

Jul 7 Anthony's New Sparkling Gleaming Shoes

Jul 7 Water Play From Bygone Summers

Jul 6 Water Play at Gen's House

Jul 5 Noritake China's "N4" Series

Jul 4 Today's Quiz: What am I?

Jul 3 My Visit to a Japanese High School

Jul 2 Stroll By the Canal

Jul 1 Nikon D700 Announced

Jul 1 Egregious Waste In The Name Of.... well, I'm not quite sure

Jun 30 A Few Polarization-Filter Examples

Jun 28 The Kamo no Shirabe Cafe in Takashima

Jun 28 Kyoto, From Shogunzuka, at Night

Jun 26 Zippy Fast Bamboo

Jun 26 Little Snail Friends at the Giouji Temple

Jun 25 Watching a Helicopter Take Off

Jun 23 Fire vs. Building: Fire Wins

Jun 22 Kids Are Much Smarter Than You Think

Jun 22 Life Stages of a Dandelion

Jun 21 City of Kusatsu's "Water Forest"

Jun 20 Water Lily

Jun 19 Fushimi Inari Shrine: Generations

Jun 18 "HDR", and Why I Don't Do It

Jun 16 Folding Fans

Jun 15 Higashiyama Hike: Kiyomizu Temple

Jun 13 Geometric Richness in Kanazawa Station

Jun 13 Kanazawa Station: Modern Interpretation of Traditional Japan

Jun 12 Playing with Gen

Jun 11 Hiking Close to Home: Higashiyama

Jun 10 Kotsuiri — "Placing of the Bones"

Jun 9 Today's Quiz: What am I?

Jun 7 Camping with Anthony, Day 6: Amanohashidate

Jun 4 Finally Getting Our Money's Worth Out Of This Kid

Jun 3 More from the Parrington Nuptials

Jun 2 Kevin and Yoko Parrington

May 31 Fushimi Inari Shrine: Foxes, Treasure, and More....

May 30 More from the Fushimi Inari Shrine

May 28 Kyoto's Dazzling Fushimi Inari Shrine

May 26 Camping with Anthony: Day 5 (Sort of)

May 24 Pink Puffy Flower Puffs

May 23 New Captioning for my Lightroom Plugins

May 22 Camping with Anthony, Day 4

May 20 Panning a Timelapse with Lightroom and Perl

May 19 Noh Theater, and Missed Opportunities

May 17 Camping with Anthony, Day 3

May 16 10th-Anniversary Fish Pie (Really)

May 14 Impromptu River Play with Akiko-chan

May 13 Camping with Anthony, Day 2: Sunset with New Friends

May 11 Camping with Anthony, Day 2: Getting Wet

May 10 Camping with Anthony, Day 2: Early-Morning Walk

May 9 Hanging Wisteria at the Sandai Shrine, Kusatsu-City, Japan

May 9 Thank You For Finding My Phone

May 8 Something Fishy About This Bird

May 8 Camping with Anthony: Day 1

May 6 Back From Five Days of Camping

May 1 Going Camping for a Few Days

Apr 30 One Year Ago: Furano (Hokkaido, Japan)

Apr 27 Tasty Keihan

Apr 27 Kine Imai: 1924 - 2008

Apr 24 Intelligence: Your Best Training Way of Defeating Everything

Apr 23 Heavy Wooden Entrance To Kyoto's Nijo Castle

Apr 22 Pleasant Day at the Imperial Palace

Apr 22 Preset Template Tokens in My Lightroom Plugins

Apr 21 A Pleasant Day Along the Kamo River

Apr 20 Toushoumen: a Different Style of Noodle

Apr 18 Fun Spooky-Tree Swing on Amami

Apr 17 Renewing Anthony's Passport

Apr 15 Fluffy Pink, a Big Gray Bird, and Excellent Mexican Food

Apr 11 The Hanami was Nice, But...

Apr 11 Sigh, Lost My Cellphone

Apr 11 Lightroom 1.4.1 Released

Apr 10 Ugly in Pink: Not All Blossoms Are Created Equal

Apr 9 Gorgeous Cherry Blossoms at Kyoto's Old Imperial Palace

Apr 7 Just Like That, Kyoto's Cherry-Blossom Season Ends

Apr 6 Cherry-Blossom Joie de Vivre in Kyoto

Apr 6 Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Lightup, 2008

Apr 5 Cherry-Blossom Full Bloom Hits Kyoto

Apr 5 On the Beach at the Bashayama-mura Resort, Amami Ooshima

Apr 3 Sakura from my Kitchen Window

Apr 3 Venting About My (sort of) Cursed Vacation

Apr 2 Lightroom 2.0 beta Released

Mar 29 Pink Sakura, Green Fuzzies, some Brass, and a Motorcycle Cop

Mar 27 Amami Tour Guide: Hirozou Yasuda

Mar 25 It Has Begun: Cherry Blossoms in Kyoto

Mar 24 Kitano Tenmangu Shrine Part II

Mar 24 Late to the Party: Plum Blossoms at the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine

Mar 23 Spooky Tree on Amami's Kakeroma-jima Island

Mar 22 Playing in the River with Gen

Mar 21 Kyoto Higashiyama "Hanatoro" Lightup Event, Part II

Mar 21 Hinamatsuri Display Made by a Five Year Old

Mar 20 Ropes of Origami Cranes

Mar 18 Kyoto Higashiyama "Hanatoro" Lightup Event

Mar 18 Overwhelmed: an Embarrassment of Riches

Mar 15 Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview: Live From the Imperial Palace

Mar 14 Cherry Blossom Timelapse: Fleeting Floral Fireworks

Mar 14 Lightroom 1.4: Minor Update

Mar 13 Kyoto Station, Part II

Mar 12 Homemade Kinako: Soybeans, a Mortar, Pestle, and a Five Year Old

Mar 10 Out of Season: Kenrokuen Gardens of Kanazawa

Mar 9 Anthony Riding a Horse, Bike, and More....

Mar 8 Newlyweds, Etc. in Kanazawa

Mar 6 Kyoto Plum-Blossom Preview

Mar 4 Desktop Backgrounds: Bamboo, Stones, and Coral

Mar 2 Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview

Mar 1 Selective Focus

Feb 29 Snowy Gardens of the Heian Shrine, Part III

Feb 28 City of Otsu's "Yumekko" Play Land

Feb 27 Snowy Gardens of the Heian Shrine, Part II

Feb 25 Snowy Gardens of the Heian Shrine, Part I

Feb 24 Snowy Round Trip to the Heian Shrine (with Desktop-Background Bonus)

Feb 23 Snowy Bridge in Kyoto

Feb 22 Anthony and George

Feb 20 Second-Tier Photos from June 3, 2007

Feb 19 On Photography and Rights

Feb 18 Amazing Snow at the Heian Shrine

Feb 18 Crow and Snowy Trees: Is This Photo Interesting?

Feb 17 My Tryout For the United States Secret Service

Feb 17 Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 Zoom Now Available

Feb 16 My Photo and Blog-Writing Workflow

Feb 15 Amami's Mangroves

Feb 14 More Snow in Kyoto: Pretty Pictures This Time

Feb 13 More Snow, but Less Drama

Feb 12 A Few More Pics From Yesterday

Feb 12 D200 "Black Frame Syndrome" Solved

Feb 11 Anthony Can Ride a Bike

Feb 10 Heavy Snow in Kyoto

Feb 10 "We Interrupt This Program...."

Feb 7 Some Old Posts From When We Moved to Japan

Feb 6 Intense Burn: Shinto Rite at the Heian Shrine

Feb 5 Artsy-Fartsy in Kyoto, at f/1.2

Feb 4 Old Coral Walls of Amami

Feb 4 Hot Stuff

Feb 3 Setsubun and Mamemaki: Driving out the Demons

Feb 2 Dynamic Skies in Amami

Feb 2 Multiple-Monitor Goodness: My New Eizo Monitor

Jan 31 Pretty Flowers

Jan 30 Inside the Bullet Train

Jan 29 Odd Bridge Loopy Road Thing

Jan 27 Roppongi Hills Dog Boutique, Etc.

Jan 26 Anthony is Thankful

Jan 26 Monet and her Mommy

Jan 24 Speedy MacBook Repair

Jan 24 Perspectives on Ultimate Frisbee

Jan 22 Lightroom Plugin Updates, and a New Piglet

Jan 22 Lightroom 1 "Run Any Command" Piglet

Jan 21 Screwed: My Story of Laptop Self-Repair

Jan 20 Cooking Play

Jan 19 Remote-Island Bed-and-Breakfast: "Horizon Club"

Jan 19 Amazingly Large Drifts of Snow

Jan 17 Snugglies for Trees, and More

Jan 17 Anthony's Recent Bentos

Jan 16 Aburi-Mochi: Grilled Mochi on Skewers

Jan 15 "Piglets", Lightroom Plugin Extensions

Jan 15 Lightroom 1 Export Plugin Plugins: "Piglets"

Jan 15 Extremely Blue Light Display

Jan 13 Another Look at Anthony Serving

Jan 13 Cultural Awareness

Jan 12 Colorful Plants on the Amami Islands

Jan 12 Making Udon Noodles from Scratch

Jan 10 Old Japanese Lock

Jan 9 Ninja

Jan 9 Really, Really Windy Days in Amami

Jan 7 Anthony's PlayRail Train Set

Jan 6 Anthony Serves At Mass

Jan 6 Amami Islands, Southern Japan

Jan 5 Lightroom Plugin "FormatMessageW failed" Error: Possible Solution from Alexander Kiel

Jan 4 New Look for my Blog

Jan 3 Our 2008 New Year's Card

Posts In 2007

Dec 29 Winter in Kyoto: Lotsa Red Berries

Dec 29 Photos Appearing in 2007

Dec 29 Camera Sensor Dust Reference Page

Dec 29 Our Christmas Present to Ourselves

Dec 27 More Presents, More Cheers, and a Helicopter

Dec 26 Anatomy of a Present Unwrapping

Dec 25 Our Christmas Tree; Our Christmas

Dec 24 Christmas Eve, 2007

Dec 22 Efficient Use of Land

Dec 22 Accessing Yahoo! Maps from Adobe Lightroom

Dec 22 Old House of Bamboo and Mud

Dec 20 Anthony Writes His Name

Dec 19 FotoSharp 16" Camera RainCoat

Dec 17 Just Released: Picasa Web Export Plugin for Lightroom

Dec 17 Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Picasa Web

Dec 17 Anthony's Drawings Move to the Next Level

Dec 15 Sunrise in Takamastu, Japan

Dec 14 Mountain of Shells

Dec 12 Orange Sunset in Kyoto

Dec 11 Stupid Macro Tricks: Photography at 35-Times Magnification

Dec 10 The Most Difficult Aspect of Photographic Lighting

Dec 9 The "Elf Yourself" School of Fine Print

Dec 8 The 38-Story "Otsu Mary"

Dec 6 Anthony Playing Among the Fall Colors

Dec 5 Nikon D200 "Black Frame Syndrome" (with a desktop-background bonus)

Dec 3 Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style

Dec 1 Making the Best of Bright Light in Fall-Color Photography

Nov 30 Ram Kulkarni

Nov 28 A Kinki Drive: The No. 2 Keihan Expressway

Nov 27 Hamamoto Bonesetting Clinic

Nov 25 Wall of "Unrolled" Bamboo (with Desktop Backgrounds)

Nov 24 Anthony and Friends Among the Colors

Nov 21 Touch of Color from the Nanzen Temple

Nov 21 SmugMug/Zenfolio/Flickr Export-to-Lightroom Plugins Released

Nov 20 Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Flickr

Nov 20 Lightroom Export Plugin For Flickr (sort of)

Nov 18 Bonanza of Fall-Foliage Desktop Backgrounds

Nov 17 How to Install an Export Plugin in Lightroom 1

Nov 16 Lightroom 1.3 & Export Plugins for SmugMug and Zenfolio

Nov 16 Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for SmugMug

Nov 16 Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Zenfolio

Nov 15 The Most-Excellent Architecture of Kyoto Station

Nov 14 Rare Shinto Shrine-Closing Ceremony

Nov 13 Photo Essay: Why I Hate Living in Kyoto

Nov 12 Fiery Momiji & Kousuke Fukui

Nov 11 Two Japan-Related Desktop Backgrounds

Nov 9 Cameras in the Park

Nov 8 Lots of Rock at Osaka Castle Park

Nov 7 Paper Airplanes in the Park

Nov 7 Today's Quiz: What am I?

Nov 6 Chestnut on a Bed of Moss (with desktop-background bonus)

Nov 5 Impromptu Portraits in the Park

Nov 5 Cinderella on the Train

Nov 4 Another Outing at Dusk

Nov 3 First Taste of Kyoto's Autumn

Nov 1 Itsukushima Shrine at Low Tide

Oct 31 Calendar-Template-Building Script, Version 3

Oct 31 Light — Science and Magic

Oct 29 Hello-Kitty Van

Oct 28 Miyajima at Low Tide

Oct 26 Anthony Turns Five, Part II

Oct 23 Anthony Turns Five

Oct 22 Cute Origami Puppies

Oct 21 Today's Quiz: What am I?

Oct 20 Boxed In: New House and Parking Lot

Oct 17 Five-Storied Pagoda on Miyajima

Oct 16 Macro Photograhpy and Reverse-Lens Basics

Oct 15 Pesky Burrs and Extreme Macro Photography

Oct 14 If It's Not in Frame, It Doesn't Exist

Oct 12 Ikebana, Part II

Oct 11 Miyajima: Approach, Path, and Gates

Oct 11 Kyoto Fall-Color Preview, Part III

Oct 11 Trying My Hand at Product Photography

Oct 9 Preschooler Ikebana (Flower Arranging)

Oct 8 Why I Shoot Raw: Recovering From Disasters

Oct 6 Main Gate of the Itsukushima Shrine, at Night

Oct 5 Preschool Car Repair

Oct 4 Miyajima's Mt. Misen

Oct 3 Bench in Miyajima

Oct 3 Kousuke Atari in Concert, Itsukushima Shrine, Miyajima Japan

Oct 1 Back from Miyajima

Sep 29 Kyoto Fall-Color Preview, Part II

Sep 28 My Visit with a Nikon D3

Sep 26 Calendar-Template-Building Script, Version 3b1

Sep 26 High Performance Web Sites

Sep 26 Discovering Photoshop Internal Font Names

Sep 24 Kids' Colorful Tea Bottles

Sep 23 Another View of the Rice Terraces

Sep 22 D200 "Dead Battery Syndrome" )-:

Sep 21 Tripod Stability Tests, Part III

Sep 20 Tripod Stability Tests: on Shutter Speed

Sep 19 Kyoto Fall-Color Preview

Sep 18 Tripod Stability Tests, Part II

Sep 17 Tripod Stability Tests, Part I

Sep 17 Considerations for Building and Using a Tripod

Sep 16 The Rice Harvest, Old-School

Sep 15 Singing in the Rain

Sep 14 History Written in Brick

Sep 14 Lightroom 1.2 Released

Sep 13 Andrei Zmievski's Photoblog

Sep 12 Perfect Focus, and a Surprise

Sep 12 The Rice Harvest

Sep 11 Colorful Patterns Under the Curtains

Sep 10 The Japanese Beer Market

Sep 8 Tiered Rice Paddies

Sep 7 Playing Among the Rice Paddies

Sep 7 Zak Braverman's Blog

Sep 6 Amazing Rainbow in Kyoto Tonight

Sep 1 "Painting" with Painter Essentials 3, and Photoshop

Aug 31 Present from Maho-kun

Aug 30 Unbridled Excitement with a Pop-up Pirate

Aug 28 Back in Kyoto

Aug 26 Josh and Anthony

Aug 25 Toys Sandblasted by Heavy Rain

Aug 24 My New Monopod

Aug 23 Kids Love Trains

Aug 23 Nikon D300 / D3 Announcements

Aug 22 How To Gross Out Your Sister

Aug 22 Katz Eye Focusing Screen for a Nikon D200

Aug 20 Scenes From a Fallen Tree, Part II

Aug 19 Blanket of Trees

Aug 17 Tripod, by Gitzo and Really Right Stuff

Aug 16 Kid in the Country: Gardening

Aug 14 Ah, Shucks! Anthony's First Fresh Sweet Corn

Aug 13 Anthony's First Model-Rocket Launch

Aug 11 Clearing Away a Tree Blown Down by a Storm

Aug 11 Kids Say the Most Amazing Things

Aug 11 Really Wet And Scruffy Birds on the Veranda

Aug 10 Welcome, Luke Friedl (My New Nephew)

Aug 9 New GPS Unit: Garmin eTrex Legend HCx

Aug 8 Scruffy Birds on the Veranda

Aug 7 Kid in the Country: Binking with Grandpa

Aug 7 Magnesium Citrate

Aug 2 Spending Time With Grandma and Grandpa

Jul 30 "Trust Me"

Jul 29 Anthony Discovers Fireflies

Jul 26 A Different Wall at Kyoto's Giouji Temple

Jul 25 New Toy, Old Sweater

Jul 25 Anthony Says "Hi" to Mommy on a Sit n' Spin™

Jul 24 Kid in the Country: Golf

Jul 23 Kid in the Country: Farm

Jul 23 Hardworking Kid with a Toy Backhoe

Jul 22 Our Flight from Kyoto to Ohio

Jul 20 Blog Table of Contents: List of Posts

Jul 17 Anthony Inspects a Butterfly

Jul 16 Views of Kyoto From Shougun-zuka

Jul 15 A Tasty Melon

Jul 14 Feasting Like Indulgent Royalty on Matsutake Mushrooms

Jul 13 Kyoto's Miyagawa-Cho District

Jul 13 Daimonji Fire Pits, Part 2

Jul 12 Daimonji's Hidoko Fire Pits

Jul 11 Great Wet Heron

Jul 9 Big Burgeoning Mushrooms, Boys, and Bugs

Jul 8 Anthony's Friend's New Sister

Jul 7 A Few Unremarkable Fern Pictures

Jul 6 More From the Giouji Temple

Jul 5 Kyoto's Okazaki Area, From Mt. Daimonji

Jul 3 Silly Mountaintop Lunch With Kana-Chan

Jul 3 New Tricks with the MacBook Mouse

Jul 1 Mt. Daimonji Hike

Jul 1 Cooling Off with Pastel Cherry-Blossom Desktop Backgrounds

Jun 28 Vine and Bamboo, Green Edition (With Desktop Backgrounds)

Jun 28 Freaky "Artsy" Sharpening with Lightroom 1.1

Jun 27 Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder (for Lightroom 1.1+)

Jun 27 Lightroom 1.1 Released

Jun 27 Rivers of Noodles in Kibune

Jun 26 Lunch Over the River in Kibune

Jun 25 Yet More from Picturesque Biei (Hokkaido, Japan)

Jun 23 An Introduction to Kyoto's Hougon'in Temple

Jun 23 Rainy Day in Arashiyama

Jun 21 Lawrence Solum, and Random Pics from Arashiyama

Jun 21 Mosses at the Giouji Temple, Kyoto Japan

Jun 19 Anthony the Valet

Jun 17 Leaf on a Wall: Giouji Temple Desktop Background

Jun 16 Giouji Temple Part 2: Gate and Walls

Jun 16 An Introduction to Kyoto's Giouji Temple

Jun 14 Tiniest Train Station

Jun 14 On the Way to the Nanzen Temple....

Jun 12 More From Nanzenji (with desktop background bonuses)

Jun 11 Medical Science Confirms: I am Full of Hot Air

Jun 10 Family Moments at the Nanzen Temple

Jun 10 Furano Wine House Park

Jun 8 More From the Kiyomizu Temple

Jun 7 Master Kyoto Sweet Maker Ji'ichiro Kunieta

Jun 6 Kibune Shrine (Sort Of)

Jun 5 Aunt Jeannette Still in Kyoto

Jun 4 KFC and Verena in Kyoto

Jun 3 Aunt Jeannette In Kyoto

Jun 2 Old Wood-Veneer Siding (Desktop Background)

Jun 1 More Biei Countryside

May 30 Yoko-chan's Daddy, Unplugged

May 29 Actual Cherries, and Long (Daytime) Exposures

May 29 A Randomly Photographed Stroll in Kyoto

May 28 Twisted English in the News

May 27 Preparing a Paddy for Rice Seedlings

May 26 Purple Irises in the Mountains

May 25 Berries, Tree, Goat, River, and a Road Sign

May 25 Update on Color Spaces: Windows is Color Stupid

May 24 Lightroom is to Photographers what Photoshop is to Photographs

May 24 Pink Flower and Green Canal

May 23 Lunch with a Great Blue Heron

May 22 More Snow in May

May 22 Noisy Frogs in the Rice Field

May 21 Buncha' Flowers in a Pot

May 20 Ouch!, Excellent Multilingual Wordplay

May 19 Still Forsaken: Kyoto University's Kumano Dorm

May 18 Revisiting Kyoto Temples in Autumn

May 18 New Furano Prince Hotel, Furano Hokkaido Japan

May 16 Deeply Rich Colors at the Kyoto Botanical Gardens

May 15 Little Toy Cars and Big Toy Hype

May 15 More "Other Colors of Spring"

May 14 Solid Copper Rain Gutter

May 13 Abandoned Houses in Hokkaido

May 12 A Few More Blossom Pictures From Yodogawa Kasen Park

May 11 Heian Shrine from Afar

May 11 Good Photographers, Bad Writers

May 10 Feast Fit for a Monkey

May 10 Sunset From The Ferry

May 10 Car Ferry to Hokkaido: Our Trip on the Suisen

May 9 The Kyoto Keage Water-Treatment Plant

May 8 Azaleas at the Keage Water-Treatment Plant

May 7 Stinky Feet

May 6 Pretty Fields in Biei, Hokkaido, and the Price of Photography

May 6 Freaky View of London via Google Maps

May 5 Koinobori in Biei, Hokkaido

May 2 Snow in May: Visiting Hokkaido

Apr 27 Kids Love Bubbles

Apr 26 Feasting Assassin Bug

Apr 26 Koinobori Bento

Apr 25 "A Buncha' Stones" Desktop Background

Apr 25 10 Gallons of Blossoms on a 5-Gallon Branch

Apr 24 Renewing my Visa with Bill Bryson

Apr 24 Computer for a Four-Year-Old

Apr 23 Year #2: It's Still About the Bento

Apr 23 Doubling Up on Grammar Checks

Apr 22 Getting Ready for Summer, in Kibune

Apr 21 Heavy Industries on the Kitchen Table

Apr 20 Freaky Raw Processing: From Sunset to Moonrise with Adobe Lightroom

Apr 20 Unavoidable Decisions with Yahoo! Messenger

Apr 18 A Sunset, and Funky Water-Written Patterns in the Sand

Apr 17 Getting Kanji Working in Emacs: Mule-UCS Startup Hook

Apr 16 Brandy & Orange Kit-Kat Candy Bar

Apr 15 "Entrance" means "Not Out", and a freaky plant (sort of)

Apr 14 Anthony Gets a BBQ Set

Apr 13 Chocolate Cake and Milk

Apr 12 Lots of Blossoms, but still Lots of Buds

Apr 12 Enjoying the Cherry Blossoms

Apr 11 Sakura and the Main Gate of the Heian Shrine (With Desktop Background)

Apr 10 Two Anthony Projects: Security Gate & Impromptu Airplane

Apr 9 Amazing Cherry Blossoms in North-East Kyoto

Apr 8 Easter Cherry Blossoms in Kyoto

Apr 6 Other Colors of Spring

Apr 5 Night Long-Exposure Gion Cherry Blossoms

Apr 4 Nighttime Long-Exposure Cherry Blossoms

Apr 3 Renewing my Visa to Remain in Japan

Apr 3 Cherry Blossoms in the Middle of Three Rivers

Mar 31 Pictures of People Taking Cherry-Blossom Pictures

Mar 30 Night Cherry Blossoms in the Gion area of Kyoto

Mar 29 Two-year old using chopsticks

Mar 28 Tasty Squid Pizza, and other Culinary Delights

Mar 28 More Cherry Blossoms from Daigo Temple

Mar 26 Sleepyhead

Mar 25 Kyoto's Road to Nowhere

Mar 24 Getting Started With Cherry-Blossom Pictures (with a Desktop Background Bonus)

Mar 24 Top 10 Worst Major Releases of Microsoft® Windows®

Mar 23 Golden Poo: Feces of Financial Fortune

Mar 23 Funky Icicles and Snowy Mountains

Mar 18 Anthony at the Park with my Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8

Mar 17 Anthony as a Delivery Man

Mar 13 Jeffrey's Lightroom Configuration Manager

Mar 11 Slighly Odd Weather in Kyoto Today

Mar 11 Kyoto City Half Marathon

Mar 9 Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 Zoom

Mar 2 Gymnastics, Preschool Style

Mar 2 More on the Difficulties of Photographing Volleyball

Feb 28 Volleyball Is a Difficult Sport to Photograph

Feb 26 Japan can be so behind the times

Feb 23 Two "Appeals to me for some reason" Shots

Feb 20 Adobe Lightroom: Custom Metadata-Viewer Presets

Feb 19 Lightroom 1.0 is out; is it done enough for you?

Feb 17 More on Digital Color Spaces: a Reply to Chris MacAskill

Feb 14 First Blossoms of 2007

Feb 9 Funky Flowers at the Kyoto Botanical Gardens

Feb 2 Women as "Child-Bearing Machines"

Feb 2 Petting Zoo Comes to School

Jan 29 Adobe Lightroom 1.x Resources

Jan 29 Adobe Lightroom Version 1.0

Jan 29 Anthony's Vending Machine

Jan 28 More Photos by Katsunori Shimada

Jan 27 Anthony Made a Bento for Mommy

Jan 26 Bento Lunches, Served Fresh Daily

Jan 25 Kyoto's New Light Rail System.... Sort Of

Jan 25 Anthony Drawing: Family and Cats

Jan 24 A Map of Anthony's Day

Jan 23 Announcing My Autofocus Test Chart

Jan 23 Jeffrey's Autofocus Test Chart

Jan 22 Unplugged: Anthony's Acoustic Guitar

Jan 20 On the Special Nature of "Blogging"

Jan 19 My Lens Focus Issues Are Fixed, or "I Told You So"

Jan 18 My "Index of Photos" Pages

Jan 16 Wishing for an in-place REPLACE in MySQL

Jan 15 Forsaken: First Look at Kyoto University's Kumano Dorm

Jan 14 Vine and Bamboo Again (With Desktop Backgrounds)

Jan 12 Japanese Lawn Mower

Jan 11 Will the Real "iPhone" Please Stand Up

Jan 11 Thoughts on the iPhone and Phone Usability

Jan 10 Missing You, My Sweet, on Our Anniversary

Jan 9 Random Pics From Our Ise Trip

Jan 8 Wifi Digital Picture Frame

Jan 6 More Anthony Art: Grass is Growing

Jan 3 Funky Spectral Highlights in My Bokeh

Jan 2 American Food in Kyoto

Jan 1 More on Raising a Bilingual Child

Jan 1 Our 2007 New Year's Card

Posts In 2006

Dec 31 Food at a Japanese Seaside Ryokan

Dec 31 Photos Appearing in 2006

Dec 31 Anthony in a Yukata

Dec 28 The Pure Joy of a Child

Dec 27 Flashing Lights in my Rear-View Mirror

Dec 26 My New Computer is Fast

Dec 25 Our Christmas Eve

Dec 22 Some Color To Counter Feeling the Blues

Dec 21 "Elf Yourself" and Contractual Fine Print

Dec 20 A Cold, and Keeping One's Word

Dec 16 Anthony The Star of His School Play

Dec 15 Calendar-Template-Building Script, Version 2

Dec 11 My Day: Poop and a Trip to Osaka

Dec 10 Yahoo! Photos Really Sucks

Dec 9 More Messy Faces, and a Crying Boy

Dec 9 Anthony and Tall Grass

Dec 8 NEF, Color Space Settings, and Embedded JPGs

Dec 7 More Anthony Art

Dec 6 Colorful Leaves and Colorful Kimono

Dec 5 Ordered a New Computer

Dec 5 Photoshop CS2 Calendar-Template-Building Script

Dec 3 Anthony's Attention to Biological Detail

Dec 3 The Most Ironic News Headline

Dec 2 Photoshop's "Darken" Blend Mode (and more fall-foliage desktops)

Dec 1 Kid + Chocolate Cake = Messy Face

Nov 30 The Color of Kyoto — Desktop Background

Nov 29 Fostering a Dislike of Sweets

Nov 25 Relaxing Amid the Fall Colors

Nov 25 Fence and Vine

Nov 24 This Coffee Makes Me Sad

Nov 23 Outside the Konpukuji Temple

Nov 22 Kyoto Fall Foliage Desktops

Nov 22 Internet Explorer's Selective Understanding of CSS

Nov 21 Fall 2006 at Enkouji Temple

Nov 19 Digital Image Color Spaces

Nov 17 Kyoto Autumn Foliage (Sort Of)

Nov 16 Pictures from the Summer: Ohio

Nov 13 Anthony a "Ring Boy" at Fumie's Friend's Wedding

Nov 11 Weddings and the Heian Shrine

Nov 8 Focus Charts and Retesting my Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VR

Nov 6 Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VR Lens

Oct 31 Sigma 30mm f/1.4 Prime Lens

Oct 29 Still *More* Presents for Anthony

Oct 24 More Birthday Presents for Anthony

Oct 23 Anthony Turns Four

Oct 21 A Dying Breed: Funny English on Japanese Signs

Oct 12 My Short Trip to America

Oct 10 Another Photo-Tech Writeup: NEF Compression

Oct 10 A Qualitative Analysis of NEF Compression

Oct 5 Maximum Aperture of the Nikon 18-200mm Throughout its Zoom Range

Oct 3 Creative Street-Sweeper Design

Oct 3 Digital-Image Color Spaces, Table of Contents

Oct 3 Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 1: Introduction

Oct 3 Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 2: Test Images

Oct 3 Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 3: History of Color Mis-Management

Oct 3 Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 4: Color Management

Oct 3 Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 5: Chromaticity Diagrams

Oct 3 Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 6: Design Tradeoffs

Oct 3 Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 7: Recommendations and Links

Sep 29 How to Sell A House Quickly, and At a Profit

Sep 15 Back to the Future: On the Terms "NFA," "DFA," and "Regular Expression"

Sep 15 Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote

Sep 14 MRE3 Reviewed on Slashdot

Sep 13 Better Search-Engine Indexing of My Blog

Sep 13 “Found” Photos From Ages Past

Sep 11 First Bento of the New Semester

Sep 11 A 3.25 Billion-Dollar “Typo” (Luckly, not mine!)

Sep 9 Adding Borders to Photos

Sep 7 Looking Forward to Autumn in Kyoto

Sep 6 Shedding Light on Misleading Product Packaging

Sep 5 More Cherry-Blossom Desktops (with Widescreen Versions, too)

Sep 3 Why I'm Not Attending Doshisha University's Center for Japanese Language

Sep 1 Back in Kyoto

Aug 28 A Perfect Ultimate-Frisbee Goal

Aug 27 A short writing about not having time to write

Aug 21 More Pics From Our Portland Trip

Aug 20 An 18mm Lens Makes Anthony Into a Giant

Aug 16 Andy Oram, Parker Ranney, Wade Lagrone, and Hill Ferguson

Aug 15 My Book Is Out; Visiting LinuxWorld Tomorrow

Aug 15 Fumie on Lost Lake; Mt. Hood in the Background

Aug 12 Advice on Changing a MacBook Hard Disk

Aug 10 Playing in the Sprinklers

Aug 10 Adding a 0.5TB Drive and Default DMA Settings

Aug 6 My Visit To Fry's

Aug 3 Anthony Seems To Be Allergic To Cats

Jul 31 Review of the Sheraton Suites Hotel, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Jul 30 Fixed version of Yahoo::Search pushed

Jul 29 Accessing Lightroom's SQLite DB Directly

Jul 27 Upgrading my MacBook Disk Drive

Jul 23 hot Hot HOT!

Jul 21 Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition

Jul 20 Frustration with TracFone Prepaid Wireless

Jul 20 Yuck!

Jul 20 Looking for a Good Preschool Near Cupertino

Jul 18 House Cleaner Recommendation / Update On Travel

Jul 17 Another Day of Travel

Jul 15 Alan and Natalie Say “I Do”

Jul 13 The Mystery of Jet Lag

Jul 4 Bought a New MacBook

Jun 28 Digital Camera "White Balance"

Jun 27 Anthony Riding a Motorcycle

Jun 25 Good Videos for a 3-Year Old?

Jun 23 Can You Tell What This Ad Is About?

Jun 20 Anthony got a Haircut

Jun 19 Volleyball and Sushi

Jun 15 Got Anthony A Helmet(!)

Jun 12 Anthony's First Bicycle

Jun 7 I was wrong, and other voting irregularities

Jun 5 California's “Proposition 82” and how to best raise taxes

May 31 It's All About the Bento

May 30 Cool Method to Photograph Flying Insects

May 27 Anthony's First Field Trip

May 18 Kyoto's “Aoi Matsuri” Festival

May 18 Big Hubub About Photographing and Fingerprinting Foreigners

May 10 Followup -- He Was Right, Comments Were Broken

May 10 The Best Email I've Ever Gotten

May 9 The Sunrise is Too Early; Off to School for Anthony

May 7 A Cemetery, Cherry Blossoms, and a big Ramen Noodles Sign

May 6 You can not possibly imagine how bad I smell today

May 1 More iPod Gripes

Apr 25 Cherry-Tree Desktop Background Photo

Apr 23 Life Stages of the Cherry Blosssom

Apr 21 A Child's Play is Always Rooted in Reality

Apr 20 Cherry Blossom Finale

Apr 18 Can YOU guess which hand the ball is in?

Apr 18 Long Night Exposures and Cherry Blossoms

Apr 16 Garmin Barometric Altimeter is, Indeed, Worthless

Apr 13 Having Started Preschool, Anthony is Now a "Big Boy"

Apr 11 Rain Puddle. Kid. Take a guess...

Apr 9 Heian Shrine in the Snow

Apr 8 Daigo Temple Cherry Blossoms (with a desktop-background bouns)

Apr 5 Still Waiting for Blosssoms, so Looking Back to Autumn

Apr 3 Sunrise, Malaysian Style

Apr 3 I Know San Francisco is Wonky, but this seems Implausable

Mar 31 Anthony the Supermodel

Mar 30 Mother Nature can be a Fickle Mistress

Mar 30 Welcome, finally, to Baby Joshua!

Mar 29 Revisiting the Scandal of Executive Compensation

Mar 29 Server Logs and the Strange Way People Find My Pages

Mar 26 Plum Blossoms and Photographers

Mar 25 Thoughts on my Garmin GPSmap 60CS (GPS unit)

Mar 22 For the sake of irreplaceable persons

Mar 21 Motherhood Knows no Vacation

Mar 21 The Best Way to Lose Weight

Mar 18 Comments on Malaysia Airlines

Mar 16 Back from Malaysia

Mar 14 More Thoughts on Malaysia

Mar 7 First Thoughts of Malaysia

Mar 5 Off to Malaysia for Ten Days

Mar 4 You do not want to catch this bug

Feb 24 It will be a traffic nightmare..... but I can't wait!!

Feb 21 Online Exif (Image Data) Viewer

Feb 20 Online Exif (Image Data) Viewer

Feb 18 Lanterns at the Heian Shrine

Feb 13 Working Out and Feeling Great

Feb 13 “Press 1 for incompetence....”

Feb 13 Shame on Volvo for egregious lack of safety

Feb 10 More hardware problems; Shame on Dell

Feb 8 Update on Transcend 4GB 120x compact-flash card

Feb 6 Sick again... third time this year!

Feb 4 Day of Fun with Camera Toys

Feb 2 The main gate of the Heian Shrine, from a different angle

Jan 31 “What a wasted day” or “My third trip to the Kyoto DMV”

Jan 30 For disposing of that nagging spouse?

Jan 27 Giving Candy to a Baby, and other Faux Pas

Jan 24 Timing another Transcend card, a 120x card this time

Jan 20 Fire Department Parade, and my new D200 Camera

Jan 19 I'm *sick* of being sick

Jan 15 Shame on Audi for not having LATCH points

Jan 14 Timing a Transcend 80x 4GB Compact Flash card with a Nikon D200

Jan 13 Popular Cameras in Japan; Trip to Yodobashi Camera

Jan 10 Got my D200!

Jan 7 Lots of snow in Niigata, some snow in Kyoto

Jan 6 No one likes an "I told you so!"

Jan 5 My trip to see the Nikon D200

Jan 4 Why, Why, oh, will someone please tell me WHY?!!

Jan 4 I've Decided on a Camera

Jan 3 My Camera's Fit of Jealous Rage; Looking for a D-SLR

Jan 1 Our Christmas and New-Year Cards

Posts In 2005

Dec 30 How to tell when you're Stinky

Dec 30 Photos Appearing in 2005

Dec 27 The Quintessential Anthony

Dec 25 Our Christmas Eve Tradition

Dec 25 The True Meaning of Christmas, Japanese Style

Dec 24 Two views (snowy and sunny) of the main gate of the Heian Shrine

Dec 23 Unix Ware is Made out of Cheap Plastic

Dec 22 Yet More Snow in Kyoto

Dec 21 More Snow in Kyoto

Dec 20 Rohm's Holiday "Illumination" in Kyoto

Dec 18 Anthony can play very well by himself

Dec 17 Yesterday's trip to the Japanese Post Office

Dec 16 Working on our Nengajou (Japanese New-Year Cards) and Christmas Cards

Dec 9 Photoshop and Japanese New-Year's Cards

Dec 6 First Snow in Kyoto

Dec 5 The Photography of Katsunori Shimada

Dec 2 Autumn Visit to the Ryouanji Temple

Nov 30 Fall Colors at Ryouanji Temple

Nov 29 More Fall Foliage: Kyoto Incline, Mountains, Temples, and Nanzenji

Nov 26 Photoshop Filters

Nov 23 A Pleasant Sunday Outing with Anthony

Nov 18 Pretty Nature Photos

Nov 16 Presidential Visit means REALLY BIG hubbub

Nov 14 Presidential Visit means Big Hubbub

Nov 11 The International Symbol For.... Tasty Fish?

Nov 9 A Visit to Nanzen Temple (Kyoto, Japan)

Nov 9 If you need to be told, I don't think this sign will help.

Nov 8 It's Too Early for Christmas Music!

Nov 6 Nice Picture from Anthony's Birthday

Oct 30 Version 1.03 of my File-Based Posts WordPress plugin

Oct 29 Update to my File-Based-Posts WordPress plugin

Oct 25 Two Coffee-at-Home-in-Japan Recommendations

Oct 22 How To Raise a Bilingual Child

Oct 15 The Inequities of North-American Baseball

Oct 14 The day had started off so well....

Oct 8 A Five-Dollar Tomato?

Oct 6 Family Portrait

Oct 6 Water Water Everywhere, My Kingdom for a Horse

Sep 23 My Son is Now a Man

Sep 23 How to Waste a Lot of Time in Two Weeks (or More)

Sep 20 USB Mouse Hangup During Windows Install

Sep 16 Vacuum Recommendation: Mitsubishi Cordless Tascal

Sep 16 WordPress Plugin Allowing File-based Posts

Sep 15 WordPress “File-based Posts” Plugin (v1.04)

Sep 11 I Forgot the Date

Sep 10 New words, like "salivary gland" and "sparrow"

Sep 9 Late-Afternoon Storm, and the Mowing of Lawns

Sep 9 A Wasted Day Futzing With Networking

Sep 5 They're Popping Out Like Popcorn

Sep 2 The Price of Growing Up (and of Conformity)

Aug 31 "Take control of the personal moments of your daily life."

Aug 25 The Price of Gas

Aug 19 Seth Godin

Aug 19 A Complete Analysis of the Situation

Aug 16 The Move

Aug 14 First look at the new place

Aug 11 "Carry You, Please"

Aug 2 A Visit to Ryouan Temple (Kyoto)

Aug 1 A Visit to Ryouan Temple (Kyoto, Japan)

Aug 1 Fixing troubles after upgrading to Firefox 1.0.6

Jul 31 I know electrons travel at the speed of light, but still....

Jul 31 From the mouths of babes....

Jul 30 Finally got to look at the new condo!

Jul 27 Rising in the land of the rising sun

Jul 26 We're back in Japan

Jul 20 Memory Lane -- looking at code I wrote almost 20 years ago

Jul 11 So simple even a... er... grandpa can use it?

Jul 8 Masters of Trivia

Jun 30 The iPod is nice, but...

Jun 25 My dad can kick your butt!

Jun 22 The (Coding) Commands According to Dr. Bergeron

Jun 16 I know what flipping the bird means, but....

Jun 10 I didn't kill myself!

Jun 7 What's the problem with Starbucks?

Jun 3 Fumie is a threat to homeland security???

Jun 2 Is my son Canadian?

May 29 Anthony now has a cousin!

May 28 Getting your duckies all in a row

May 27 National Weather Service to be gagged?

May 26 Babies can certainly be surprising... to the uninitiated.

May 2 Late-April Snow in Ohio

May 2 Japan can be amusing sometimes

Apr 23 Shame on you, Netgear

Apr 23 I Survived The Trip

Apr 19 I Really Don't Care to Fly

Apr 18 I've Moved My Blog

Apr 17 More Cherry-Blossom Pics

Apr 12 Poetry for the Season

Apr 11 Mango and Poison Ivy

Apr 8 Indeed, the blooms have bloomed in Kyoto.

Apr 8 The Ugliness of Japanese Cherry-Blossom Viewing

Apr 8 Full Bloom (Finally) Hits Kyoto

Apr 7 It's Tough Being a Cherry Blossom This Year

Apr 7 It's Not as Painful as it Looks

Apr 4 I Love my New Camera

Apr 1 The Fun of a Japanese Driver's License Test

Apr 1 Essentials for a First-Time Parent

Apr 1 Choosing a car to buy in Japan

Posts In 2004

Apr 26 Getting Settled in Japan: A Day Off with Daycare

Apr 25 Getting Settled in Japan: Temples and Pink-Eye

Apr 24 Getting Settled in Japan: More Furniture Shopping

Apr 23 Getting Settled in Japan: Bike Ride and Furniture Shopping

Apr 20 Getting Settled in Japan: Nanzenji

Apr 19 Getting Settled in Japan: Air-Conditioner Install

Apr 18 Getting Settled in Japan: Lazy Day

Apr 17 Getting Settled in Japan: Random Errands

Apr 16 Getting Settled in Japan: Alien Registration, Bicycles, etc.

Apr 15 Getting Settled in Japan: Moving Day

Apr 14 Getting Settled in Japan: Washer/Dryer and Microwave Oven

Apr 13 Getting Settled in Japan: Cell Phones and Air Conditioners

Apr 12 Getting Settled in Japan: Buying a Fridge, etc.

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