Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Matt and I were having an MSN chat the other day while I was still in Kumamoto, and one part of it went like this: Matt: “It is a shame you won’t get to see Nagasaki, though.” Me: “Yeah. But
The flight to Kumamoto City on the 12 December was packed with Japanese high-school girls. From what my Japanese counterpart remarked when I was at their college, at about this time of the year, as many as 20,000 of their
And the last stack of HDR compositions: of Kyu-Hosokawa Gyobutei. These were the hardest HDR exposures I’ve done so far: they’re all handheld shots taken indoors. Well, that’s a wrap for all the pictures taken of my stay in Kumamoto,
Another stack of HDR compositions taken in Kumamoto City, and this time of Suizenji Gardens Several of these I stabilized with the Gorilla Pod, with the composition itself was created from 9 exposures.
Time to work on the HDR compositions! Here’s Part 2.:) I finally managed to get some much nicer bracketed exposures of Kumamoto Castle on Saturday morning – the day before departure. Like the picture taken from my blog post “Meals
Though I decided to bring along the Sigma 18-250mm lens at the last minute while packing for the trip 9 days ago, funnily I never got round to using the lens. It sat in my luggage bag during my entire
The last place I took a quick look at was Hosokawa Mansion, which was a short 10 minute walk from the hotel. This is a 300 year old samurai mansion that was the former residence of the Lord of the
Suizenji Gardens (水前寺公園) was one of the two sites in Kumamoto I really wanted to take a look, and I was fortunate to manage some free time today to pay a visit. The park is considered one of the four
Friday evening was the last day in which dinner was complimentary from my hotel. Dinner last night was exquisite as always though the restaurant wait staff were terrifically busy as there was a small wedding reception hosted in the restaurant
I’ve remarked on this blog here that Restaurant Matsuri at my hotel enjoys a magnificent view of the castle both by day and night. I haven’t been able to show pictures of this from within the restaurant itself so far,
Wrote this post last Sunday, but posting it now.:) One thing I haven’t done much of when traveling is to take high dynamic range photographs. So, I was determined this time to take as much as I could. The Kumamoto
There were ten of us at the dinner event hosted by the staff of the college; five Japanese, and five Singaporeans, four of us who are guest lecturing in various subjects and disciplines at the college this week, with several
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