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Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective

3/9, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

A viola as a kind of garden plants has various colours and is easy to use for gardening. This weekend, I tried to shoot the flowers for putting them to WPC then I understood that taking a picture considering better perspective was completely different from cropping a picture. It was very difficult to shoot pictures supposed to be cropped.

Honestly saying, the left picture is NOT the original of the first one.

Several years ago, I had a chance to hear some hints of perspective from a professional photographer who was good at capturing high speed cars. He said that he sometimes shot it with margin because it might be the last and only one chance.

Let me add one picture which could be used for a background image. Actually, this is a cropped one.

This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned (2)

3/3, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

These strange and organic objects are abandoned pottery clay. Usually I don’t like abrasive expression but I did that time. There must be many abandoned clay portions behind a piece of beautiful pottery. This was the reason of my unusual shot.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned

3/1, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

I know, I know. I don’t need to say I abandoned the game. It must be hard to do something here because here it is the Tunnel of the Circuit de Monaco where, as you know, the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix is held every year. A white man riding a bike seemed slower than Sir Jackie Stewart.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes

2/22, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

Hina-matsuri, known as Girls’ Day on March 3, is a special day in Japan, celebrating growing up. I don’t intend to explain it in detail here but, if you are not familiar with the custom, I recommend you check it out on Wikipedia which tells you better than me.

Usually you would see many dolls in a photo of hina-matsuri but, in recent years, simpler one has the preference.

One of the reasons might be simple and easy, that is, it is very expensive and space-consuming for present-day life. Before all, such a traditional custom is gradually missing and children are sometimes not interested in it.

Hina-matsuri is not a national holiday today. It is said that it was a kind of holiday until 150 years ago. Anyway, nobody pays attention, whether it is holiday or not, because it is a Japanese custom.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure

2/15, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

“Buddenbrooks” by Thomas Mann is well known also in Japan. A brown paperback in the picture is a Japanese translation published by Iwanami 25 years ago, originally 50 years ago. Thomas Mann was born in Lubeck, a city of northern Germany and said Queen of the Hanse, and it was my first overseas destination. A white hardcover book is a kind of illustration book which I bought there. I treasured a book “Der Bajazzo” (The Clown), also by Thomas Mann, which was my first book to read in German but now I miss it.

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