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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mirror

9/3, 2016 tanu

A few moths ago, I was strolling through a backstreet of a big city Tokyo and I found me missing something natural and tranquil. I got bored with daily business and would be tired of doing same things every day. Perhaps I should gone on a weekend excursion to the back country to find nature. However, simultaneously, I understood what I needed was not nature but sophisticated calmness in the city. One of my ways to do was, as usual, to visit a smaller art museum.
The picture was taken at the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, which is at a old resort just next to Yokohama and one hours from Tokyo. I hope you enjoy a mirror image made with the modern architecture, the sea and the sky.

しばらく前に東京の裏通りを歩いていて、何かしら自然で落ち着いたものが足りないような気がしていることに思い当たった。日々の仕事に飽きて、同じことを繰り返すことに嫌気がさしていたのだろう。ひょっとすると自然を求めて田舎でも訪ねればよかったのかもしれない。でも、同時に、欲しているものが都会の洗練された平穏といったものだとも理解していた。そんな時にやることといえば、小さめの美術館に行くことである。この写真は、葉山の神奈川県近代美術館にて撮影された。

In response to the weekly photo challenge, Mirror by The Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame

8/27, 2016 tanu

（日本語は後半に）
Once in a while I should have discussed photography on the blog because I have posted pictures every time. Frame, what a great subject to talk about it.
Honestly saying I don’t like to use a frame for my photos. It narrows down the canvas, limits a camera position and add one element of the picture in advance. In addition, we enjoy pictures on a screen of computer rather than prints. In other words, we see many layered frames like a screen, an application window, a picture window and a picture itself. Perhaps you remember that iPhone was like a panda when its screen factor was changed (iPhone4 to 5). When you ran some application for older iPhone, you might see a white application color inside a black frame inside a white iPhone.
However sometimes I found me taking a picture with a frame. One of my favorites I took was a image of Nuremburg through a old window glass at night. I missed it but still remember.
A typical framing style I like is found in Ukiyoe pictures. If you love photography, you know, “frame” doesn’t mean the rim of a picture. It must be a typical one but even a small branch as a foreground object can be a frame. Indeed Ukiyoe artists loved to use such expressions and Van Gogh would be one of successors.
Today I chose three different pictures which have no typical frame.

写真を毎回アップしているのだから、たまには写真に関することでも書くべきだろう。「フレーム」良い題材である。
正直、写真でいうところのフレームが好きなわけではない。少ない切り取られた領域をさらに狭めて制限するものであるし、コンピュータスクリーンで見るのが当たり前の今、写真はすでにいくつものフレームが重なっている。
それでも時々、フレームのある写真を撮っていることに気づく。今でもお気に入りの一枚はニュルンベルクの古い窓枠から夜の様子を撮ったものである。
典型的なフレームのスタイルは浮世絵に見られる。それは単なる枠ではなく、例えば木の枝に切り取られた風景であったりする。そんなわけで、今日は、典型的とは言えないフレームを選んでみた。

In response to the weekly photo challenge, Frame by The Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare

8/20, 2016 tanu

201608-301 — Saru-hashi bridge at Yamanashi over the rapid

Saru-hashi (猿橋) bridge is lesser‐known but drawn in a Nishikie (錦絵) by Hiroshige (広重). The wooden bridge was built over the rapid where it was difficult to use pillars. Typically, in that case, suspension bridges are common solution but it was built with another classical way named “Hane-bashi”, literally drawbridge.

According to the Wikipedia, it is said that there’s no wooden Hane-bashi left in Japan and Saru-hashi is not the exception, that is, Today’s Saru-hashi was rebuilt with steel frames for safety.

Interestingly, there are four different bridges side by side there:

Saru-hashi, a pedestrian bridge
New Saru-hashi (route 20)
Water bridge for a power station
and
another one

In response to the weekly photo challenge, Rare by The Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun!

8/13, 2016 tanu

201608-2001

Whether you like it or not, Disney is one of the most successful brand of the entertainment business and the Disneyland might be the most vibrant and popular destination for family tourists in the summer vacation season. You could see a lot of smiling, happy voices and romantic scenes there and you could feel happy more or less even if you don’t like any theme parks.
However, perhaps you may think you want to spend quiet hours with your family. Everyday life is always too noisy, isn’t it.

Here’s Tokyo Disney Sea in quiet eyes.

好き嫌いはあるだろうが、ディズニーというブランドがエンタメの世界でもっとも成功したもののひとつであることには違いない。さらにディズニーランドと言えば、夏の家族旅には欠かせない存在であろう。テーマパークなんて嫌いだというむきであっても、行けば多くの笑顔に出会うに違いない。だが、ひょっとすると、家族と静かな時間を過ごしたいと思うこともあるだろう。日々の生活はあまりにやかましいではないか。
ということで東京ディズニーシーの静かな写真をどうぞ。