Today, I headed to Japan Fest, an annual festival of all things Japanese in Atlanta (food, music, art, dancing, flower arrangments, origami, and anime). AsI took my first mono shot of a beautiful little girl in kimono, I got this message from my live screen: "No Card In Camera." Just shoot me (especially since I went through some pre-festival checklists--one of which was "camera card"--dang my ADD).
I returned home. I decided to make some chicken kabobs on the grill, and I headed out with a glass of wine and my camera. Of all my world's possessions, my grill is my favorite. So I started taking photos of the silver handle on the grill. I noticed some bokeh, but the distance between bokeh and handle was pretty great. Hey wait, I thought, I can get lower my POV and bring the bokeh closer to the handle--ohhhhh, what's that? THE SUN is setting! Sun Flare too--waiiiit, double flare (see on the handle?)---score! Yes, I love my grill. And I love this shot. My other shot was the bokeh in my wine glass (see: http://365project.org/darylo/album3/2013-09-22).
Cheers everyone. Great weekend. Sorry, no comments this weekend. Was out and about the entire time, and Saturday, my oldest went to "Music Midtown" and saw bands and bands and bands with her dad IN THE POURING RAIN. What a thrill!
@rvwalker I agree, the conversation is so engaging and very helpful for me as I construct a shot. I have intentionally tried to force an abstract quality to most of my shots this week just to see if I can manipulate it as such.
Just loving your mono series, the pics are fab, especially this one. I'm such a colour junky that I'm not sure I have it in me to do this, but perhaps I'll give it a try, anything is better than more bird shots!!
Way to work the scene! You made magic out of a scene that most would consider pretty ordinary. Wonderful result. Love the bokeh and the flares. This works brilliantly in B&W.
@vankrey thanks Michael. Oh, you and @jyakota might be interested to know we will be hosting our first Japanese student from Fukushima, Japan in November. My daughter, who is in her third year of Japanese at her middle school is just beside herself with excitement. We are thrilled. :)
I'm sure you'll have a blast. How interesting to have a student from Fukushima. It'll be interesting to see how the student talks, or doesn't talk about all that's gone on there. How long?
@vankrey It will only be for a short time (Nov. 7-10). The Japanese group of students are coming through the Japanese-government sponsored program called "Kakehashi" project, which is an extention of the "Kizuna" project that some older students participated in last year (high school students primarily). From what we have witnessed by the visiting students before, they are prepared for questions about their experiences, but what they are not prepared for is the outpouring of love they receive from sharing those experiences (lots of tears, but in a good way). So excited to just have a lovely student with us and we'll give her the tour of the ATL. Kira will go to Japan this summer with her instructor--killing me that I cannot afford to go too. Our hope is that she can be part of an exchange program on scholarship in high school. We'll see. :)
September 29th, 2013
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