The Blossom is Coming: Ebara Shrine, Shinbanba, Tokyo

My youngest son's nursery school is about 5mins walk from this shrine, which sits right next to the Meguro River in Shinbanba, on the Old Tokkaido Road.
I'd been at a meeting in Shinagawa earlier in the morning, with a lady from NHK. It was such a nice day that it seemed criminal to take the train. It's just 3kms from Shinagawa to home so it makes for a nice walk.
The mo-mo [peach blossom] is coming out nicely at Ebara Shrine and a few other places in our area. Was nice to get this view; just a little bit of the shrine roof, the trees and some green in the background. Read more: blog.alfiegoodrich.com.

 

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Title: The Blossom is Coming: Ebara Shrine, Shinbanba, Tokyo
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The Blossom is Coming: Ebara Shrine, Shinbanba, Tokyo

Mount Fuji, December 2007

I had an anxious hour yesterday, thinking I had lost all the shots from when we migrated to Japan in October 2007 until the end of that year.
However, after searching all the hard-drives and a load of DVD backups, I had a brain-wave and opened the case of my PC tower. Lo and behold, there was the offending article: a hard-drive that used to be external [when the power supply died I put it inside the PC] with its power cable unplugged.
Plugged it back in and all of 2007's shots were back...
It's good to re-visit old RAW files. When I shot this, on December 4th 2007, I'd had my first DSLR for a month. I'd just bought the 80-200mm f/2.8 ED IF lens and this was pretty much the first trip with it: a bus trip up to Fuji's Fifth Station and the lakes around Hakone, with my good friend the composer Joseph Curial.
This particular shot was taken from the cable-car coming back down from Mount Komag take.
Great to see these shots again. Processing it now over what I knew how to get out of a Nikon RAW file five and half years ago was a nice benchmark for how far I've come.
Gear? Nikon D300 Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 ED IF . . . Read more: blog.alfiegoodrich.com.

 

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Good luck! ? Charlie on the sidelines cheering on his brother

This morning we were all down at our local community centre as my eldest son was in a team with some his classmates, playing 'onigokko': Japanese 'tag'.
Check out what onigokko is here: http://onigokko.or.jp/.

Little Charlie was on the sidelines with a poster, cheering on Joe and his team: がんばれ！[good luck].
Gear? Nikon D700 Nikon 50mm f/1.8 AiS High-contrast monochrome setting . .. . . Read more.

 

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Good luck! ? Charlie on the sidelines cheering on his brother