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Lens-Artists Challenge #333: Complementary Colors


(日本語は下に)
I haven’t have any opportunity to take out my camera to take pictures this week. Above picture is from my stock.

In fact, I took this picture for my memorandum to learn foreign languages at first. As you may know, my mother language is Japanese and the second language is English. Interestingly, around for 20 years, I was working with French colleague and the common language was English, not in French. However, obviously, I have had a lot of opportunities to communicate in French.
On above picture, it says ‘Attention Bulbes, Collection’ and it confused me. Those words seem to have no big differences from English but clearly to be written in French. ‘Bulbes’ includes ‘e’. Perhaps it can start with ‘Caution’. It interested me.

After thinking about languages, I found that another interesting point. A notice board had a green pillar probably to blend in with the surroundings. On the other hand, the protected area was surrounded by red tape, complementary color. It looked inconsistent.
Eventually, I decided to keep a picture for my future blogging.

This week, strictly speaking, my post is not a part of ‘Photo’ challenge but hopefully you could be interested in.

Lens-Artists Challenge #333: Complementary Colors

この写真はチャレンジのために撮ったものではなく、過去写真です。
写真には花壇にある球根への注意の立て札がありますが、英語のように見えて、実はフランス語です(球根を意味するBulbeは英語では最後のeが不要です)。言語が似ていると読めてしまう面白い例かなと思います。
もうひとつ面白いのは、立て札が景観を壊さないように緑の柱で綺麗に作られているのに、なぜか保護エリアは赤いテープで区切られています。この中途半端な感じが面白くて写真に収めました。

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the last leaf


そろそろ冬も終わって春の気配がし始める頃、最後の1枚となった赤い葉が小枝の先にしがみついていた。小刻みに震える小枝には微かな光があたり、間も無く春の葉を広げる準備も整いつつあるというのに、真っ赤な残り葉は落ちようとはしない。光はその深紅の1枚に影を作り、春を伝える。

Just as winter was about to end and signs of spring were beginning to appear, the last red leaf was clinging to the end of a twig. A faint light shone on the trembling twig, and it was soon getting ready to unfurl its spring leaves, but the remaining bright red leaf refused to fall. The light cast a shadow on that scarlet leaf, heralding the arrival of spring.

Bonne journée, photo challenge

Lens-Artists Challenge #331: Resilience


Everything I loved has been lost: the chestnut farm, the small woods, the birds singing. Instead, a big building for the elderly is going to be built. Obviously, it is understandable that such infrastructure needs to be prepared for an ageing society. The open question is whether a place can really withstand an ageing society when it has lost its natural environment. Nobody knows the answer.

The city where I was born and raised is about four hours away from the city where I live now. In a sense, it is on the very outer edge of Tokyo’s residential area, and is also a part that has been urbanized without exception. Since leaving the city when I was 18, I have visited there many times, and the city has really changed in the last 20 years. Interestingly, I get lost several times in the city I should know.

Even though, I’m not pessimistic. Still nature I know is here and there. I miss a lot of thing and it would be necessary process to change. Our society and nature is resilient, I believe.

Lens-Artists Challenge #331: Resilience