Perhaps, I could say something about the first picture. The sail boat is not flying in the sky but it is a kind of kite and not common in Japan.
In response to the weekly photo challenge, Motion by The Daily Post.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion
Tag: locomotive
Wordless Wednesday : locomotive (again)
in Japan
A Part of Wordless Wednesday
Bonne journée(30): A steam locomotive
In the present age, steam locomotives are mostly working only for a pleasure train. One of the reasons is, of course, an environmental issue. However, I think the main reason would be a difficulty of maintenance rather than CO2 emission. Operators are always checking here there and everywhere at each stations.
今日では蒸気機関車は、ほとんどの場合、観光列車として動いている。ひとつの理由は、もちろん環境問題だ。だが、思うに、主要な理由は二酸化炭素の排出というよりメンテナンスの難しさだろう。運転している人は、どの駅でもそこかしこを確認している。
For a long while, I have forgotten what was happened when a steam locomotive worked. Grey smoke and gusty steam with a full blast sound. Then heavy ashes falling.
Have fun with an ancient technology once in a while.
ここしばらく、蒸気機関車が動く時に何が起こるかをすっかり忘れていた。灰色の煙と激しい蒸気とつんざくような音。そして大量の灰。
たまには、いにしえの技術で楽しもう。
I will post another picture of the locomotive again as a part of Wordless Wednesday.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art
An industrial design is a kind of art, sometimes for me. Especially, a mechanical architecture has both complexity and systematic faces inside of it in nature. Today, it is difficult to see the fundamentals when we glance it.
In spite of difficulties of knowing fundamentals, we sometimes find a sophisticated architecture in it. Perhaps, it is because we always learn from nature.
This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by Daily Post.
Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Move
It is said that a steam locomotive changed the way of industrials and our lives. Maybe it’s true. We can move quickly and sometimes we think the old transportation system was so slow that we couldn’t have a better life. Indeed, now we have a faster train.
But also it is true that we sometimes think our lives would be better if we move slow. Probably still we are on the move toward new civilization.
Even when we miss our way,I believe, we have to keep on going.
BTW, I don’t recommend you go the sea around Mont Saint-Michel without any professional guide. Sea water moves very fast.
This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by Daily Post.
l'atelier tanu | tagnoue 