49 posts tagged “photo quest”

Many Japanese enjoy Halloween recently, however, most of them just enjoy costume play on the day.  There is no religious meaning for most of Japanese.

Halloween at a bar on Oct. 31, 2009

My friend putting on costume of an alien: photo retouching with iPhoto '09

Display for Halloween by my partner:  photo retouching with iPhoto '09

I've had sore muscles because I enjoyed badminton in the afternoon of last Sunday.  I belong to a badminton team which members consist of PTA.  Every Sunday we practice and play some game but I had stopped playing badminton because I hurt my elbow.  Now my elbow seems to be OK...
In the morning of last Sunday, I went to Expo'70 Memorial Park in order to take some photos for the photo quest.  I know it's the best season for COSMOS.
Anyway, I took photos of cosmos in the morning, played badminton in the afternoon and had two drinking parties at night of the Sunday.  I had a very sleepy day on Monday :D

OK...my entry for "Out of Focus" is as follows:

All bokeh:  PENTAX K200D + TAMRON A16 (Aperture priority / f/2.8, 1/640, ISO200)

Fall in Japan is a season for athletic festivals.  I selected my photos taken on Oct. 11 because it's a little earlier for autumn leaves.  We may have it in November this year.  Anyway, taking dynamic photos of people's activities becomes good lesson :)

PENTAX K200D + smc PENTAX DA 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED (Aperture priority / f/8, 1/640, ISO200)

I almost forgot to entry my try to this week's photo quest.  Actually it isn't my life but all the photos were taken on September 27, 2009 when I visited my parents' house in Nara pref. with my family.  You can see some flowers in my photo that my mom grew in her garden.

My mom is a master of the Japanese tea ceremony and my daughter is her student.  My mom taught my daughter how to serve Matcha in simple process to guests as a host this time.  I will ask my daughter to serve me good Matcha this weekend :)

It was five days continuous holiday for most of Japanese this year.  I went to my partner's parents' house with my family and we got back home two hours ago.  It was eleven hours drive for return trip of today.  Anyway, I've just got three B&W photos generated with iPhoto'09.

Umeda Subway Station (original): Ricoh GRD2 (Manual / f/3.2, 1/125, ISO80 / -0.3EV)

Generated with iPhoto'09 (B&W, strengthen color +1)

I asked my partner to drive our car as I wanted to take photos for the photo quest.  All the photos were taken with my Ricoh GR Digital2 and are original ones.  We went to mountain side of our city to look for things of fall.  I'll post some autumn shots later, though it's a little early for real autumn.

I have the following lenses for my PENTAX K200D:

smc PENTAX DA18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL2

smc PENTAX DA 50-2000mm F4-5.6 ED

smc PENTAX FA 50mm F1.4

smc PENTAX-M 1:1.4 50mm

          It's the lens that my deceased grandfather used with ASAHI PENTAX ME.
TAMRON SP AF90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO 1:1 (Model 272E)

Namely, I have four telephoto lenses out of five because focal length in 35mm format becomes 1.5 times for K200D.  I selected kids photos for photo quest of this week with my favorite lens of TAMRON 272E.

I selected "Tower of the Sun" for this week's photo quest :)  Some of you may remember Expo'70 held in Osaka in 1970.  The Tower of the Sun is the symbol of the Expo created by Taro Okamoto.

PENTAX K200D (Manual exposure / f/8, 1/250, ISO100)

Rain season, we call it Tsuyu 梅雨 in Japanese, is going to over here in Osaka.  We have some rainy, cloudy and sunny days recently.  Right after rain season we will have long sunny, hot and sweaty summer.  I really miss blue and clear sky with cumulonimbi.  Anyway, let's go for Osaka and Kobe weather this week.

@Suma beach in Kobe at 14:15 on July 19, 2009: Ricoh GRD2 (Program AE / f/8.0, 1/1000, ISO80 / -0.3EV)
They are all my friends.  We set DJ booth at the beach and enjoyed good music, alcohol and sea bathing :)

@Suma beach in Kobe at 14:35 on July 19, 2009: Ricoh GRD2 (Program AE / f/8.0, 1/1000, ISO80 / -0.3EV)

As you know, it's one of my practices for me to write posts in English.  I highly appreciated it if you correct my wrong English :)  Anyway, I didn't know what scavenger means by.  After checking it with my English-Japanese dictionary, I know its meaning and what "scavenger hunt" is.  OK, my photos for the scavenger hunt are as follows:

1. Something that is old and means something to you:

ASAHI PENTAX ME, it's the last film camera that has "ASAHI" engraved.  Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. changed its company name to PENTAX CORP. in 2002 and the company was absorbed by HOYA in 2008.  I keep the camera as a memento of my grandfather.  Unfortunately, I don't remember what pictures my grandfather took.  I will check them when I visit my parents' home next time.  I can release its shutter and it may work well now.  Anyway, I can still use the lens with my digital camera, K200D, though it must be manual focus.

2. Something that no one knows I have:

I heartily hope my partner doesn't read my post.  Where my coins are...it's one of my top secrets.

3. Something I like to eat:

Why don't you try these when you drink :)

4. Something hot:

We enjoyed a live show inside IZAKAYA, Japanese-style pub on last Sunday.  It's a hot space, isn't it?

5. Something wet:

He is my son who just finished taking a bath.