I could spend a great day at the Wagner Nandor Art Gallery located in Mashiko town, Tochigi-pref., Japan. Because, I could have a chance to talk with Nandor's wife and I could appreciate many pieces of Nandor's work. Nandore Wagner was born in 1922 in Hungary. He had become world's famous sculptor by his stainless steel sculpture made in Sweden while as a refugee from Hungary. After he got married a Japanese woman, he moved from Sweden to Japan with his wife. Finally, he found the permanent home in Japan. As for more detail about him, I recommend you to refer Nándor Wagner.
10/21/2011
Autumn on a bench
At the time of the sun moved west, I found the sign of autumn on the bench in the sunlight down through the trees.
10/18/2011
Thanksgiving cactus to you, thank you for viewing.
The potted cactus has just started to bloom in the soft sunlight coming through window curtains. It is commonly known as the Holiday cactus. Normally, it will be started to bloom between middle of November to end of December. Therefore, it is also called either Thanksgiving cactus or Christmas cactus.
10/17/2011
Symboles of The Six Realms in the Buddhism Doctrine
In Japan, the six stone statues in the Buddhism temple can be seen in most cases.
These six statues symbolize the Six Realms in the Buddhism doctrine.
These are the God Realm, The Jealous God Realm, the Human Realm, the Animal Realm, the Hungry Ghost Realm and the Hell Realm. Further, the doctrine says that all lives continue to be born and reborn in the Six Realms that is called the Cycle of Rebirth or reincarnation.
These six statues symbolize the Six Realms in the Buddhism doctrine.
These are the God Realm, The Jealous God Realm, the Human Realm, the Animal Realm, the Hungry Ghost Realm and the Hell Realm. Further, the doctrine says that all lives continue to be born and reborn in the Six Realms that is called the Cycle of Rebirth or reincarnation.
10/16/2011
burner on, flying up and up into blue sky・・・・・
A pilot fires up the burner of his hot air balloon to climb up after dropped his marker to the marker-point (a target) on ground. It is one of scenes of the hot air balloon game that who can drop his marker from gondola to nearest point of the target on ground.
10/14/2011
An impression of Autumn,
How about the wonderful jazz music in a long night of Autumn?
My favorite jazz pianist Keith Jarret is playing Autumn leaves.
Wishing you all a wonderful Friday!!
My favorite jazz pianist Keith Jarret is playing Autumn leaves.
Wishing you all a wonderful Friday!!
9/30/2011
Japanese Beautyberry
The plant shown in above is a kind of shrub trees which is native to Japan. It is called "Murasaki-Shikibu" in Japanese.
The name of "Murasaki-Skikibu" comes from the name of a famous Japanese female novelist who wrote the "Tale of Genji" in the early 11th Century. It is said that this story is the world's first novel or first modern novel.
By the way, the Muraski means purple color.
Have a Happy Friday.
The image was taken by EOS7D with EF-S 60mm F2.8 Macro USM, 1/500 f2.8 ISO400 Aperture Priority AE
The name of "Murasaki-Skikibu" comes from the name of a famous Japanese female novelist who wrote the "Tale of Genji" in the early 11th Century. It is said that this story is the world's first novel or first modern novel.
By the way, the Muraski means purple color.
Have a Happy Friday.
The image was taken by EOS7D with EF-S 60mm F2.8 Macro USM, 1/500 f2.8 ISO400 Aperture Priority AE
9/29/2011
Wish you all a wonderful day!
According to the WIKIPEDIA, the flowering plant shown in above has few English names like Autumn Crocus, Meadow Saffron or Naked Lady.
The above photo was taken in my yard yesterday. But, it was a little out of focus because i used maximum aperture to make smooth bokeh on backdrop. Thus i failed to capture fine and clear texture on petals. That's why I tried to take same photo again this morning.
The photo was taken by Olympus Pen E-P3 with Voigtlander Nokton 25mm f0.95, 1/4000 f/0.95 -0.3 of Exposure Bias ISO200 Aperture-Priority AE
The above photo was taken in my yard yesterday. But, it was a little out of focus because i used maximum aperture to make smooth bokeh on backdrop. Thus i failed to capture fine and clear texture on petals. That's why I tried to take same photo again this morning.
The photo was taken by Olympus Pen E-P3 with Voigtlander Nokton 25mm f0.95, 1/4000 f/0.95 -0.3 of Exposure Bias ISO200 Aperture-Priority AE
9/28/2011
just only a weed, but.......
It is just only a weed and very common plant we can find it wherever weeds grow thickly, but it has so lovely flowers as you can see. Try to observe carefully, these are very small but so beautiful and lovely flowers.
Wishing you all a wonderful day.
Wishing you all a wonderful day.
9/27/2011
A BLURRED & OUT OF FOCUS
Suddenly, a moth came into my sight when i aimed to shoot other subject by macro lens.
I shot this pic in a rush without any thought about focusing, exposure and aperture setting so that the pic was a little blurred and out of focus. But, I decided to upload the pic to my photostream because of lovely bokeh.
9/26/2011
Apples, starting to take on red color
Despite strong wind and heavy rain of tropical storm hit the island last week, most apples are still remaining and just started to take on red color. The harvest is scheduled to be carried out by children either end of Oct. or beginning of Nov. Most children are looking forward to the harvest festival, but, some of parents worry about radioactive contamination on apples. Because the place here is located only 150km away from the melt downed nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
The image was taken by EOS7D with Canon EF-S 17-85mm f4-5.6 IS USM, 1/60 f/14.0 ISO400 +1/3EV of Exposure Bias9/25/2011
For your Happy Sunday evening
A dried chinese lantern, still red fruit can be seen.
This chinese lantern was harvested in my yard. I left it under dead leaves almost couple of months after harvesting.
9/24/2011
SOBA or flowers of buckwheat
The seeds of buckwheat become the ingredients of Soba noodle. The harvesting of buckwheat seeds will be started in middle of October. So, we can enjoy SOBA noodle made from new backwheat flour soon.
The image taken by EOS7D with EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS, 1/500 f5.6 iso800 -2/3 of Exposure Bias9/22/2011
cosmos field and a house
Fortunately, the area, where i live, was not damaged in the tropical storm passed through the island within few hours. However, still thousands of people have been evacuated from flood and landslide.
The image was taken by Olympus Pen E-P3 with M. Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 II R, 1/20 f20 ISO200 Aperture-Priority AE9/21/2011
bloom alone
I failed to visit your photostream in the past few days, because of the HDD failure of my PC which is still new only 1.5 years after purchased. But, all of the data was restored from the back-up drive.
According to the latest weather forecast, the tropical storm hits the Honsyu Island of Japan so that the area, where i live, will be in the storm zone from this evening.
I wish you all a wonderful day.
9/15/2011
cat teaser or dog's tail
This weed is called Enokoro-gusa (狗尾草) or Neko-Jarashi(ネコジャラシ) in Japanese. Enokoro-gusa means dog's tail grass and Neko-Jarashi means cat teaser grass.
If you try to shake this grass right before cat's eyes, you can see a playful cat like this.
It's a most suitable grass for shape up exercise to your cat.
Photo was taken by Olympus E-P3 with M. Zuiko Digital 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R (Black), 1/200 f5.6 ISO200 no exposure bias
9/10/2011
thinking whether stop or not
A honey bee came into sight of the viewer of my EOS7D and hovered above a cosmos a little while. But, bee stopped onto the other cosmos. What is the difference between the two flowers?
Thank you for your viewing and i wish you all a wonderful weekend.
9/09/2011
Up-closed image of hardy begonia （秋海棠）
This plant is called "Syu-kaidoh" in Japanese. Probably, it is not common in Europe and the US, Canada too.
According to the WIKIPEDIA, This plant is native to the area covers from Malay peninsula to Southern part of China, and it brought from China to Japan in the early Edo period (1603 to 1868).
Photo was taken by Olympus E-P3 with Voigtlander Nokton 25mm f0.95, 1/640 f1.4 ISO200 -0.3EV exposure bias
9/03/2011
A Lava Dome
The peak of this lava dome is 6,289 feet (1,915 meters) above sea level and still an active volcano.
It is said that this lava dome was appeared by big eruptions about six hundred years ago.
9/02/2011
Monkshood bloomed on a trail
The image was taken at the two days trekking to the volcanoes called Mount Nasu.
I found some Monkshoods bloomed on a trail route. Summer will soon be gone so that a bee looks so busy.
8/31/2011
Little fairy of the forest, The image is dedicated to Brittany Graviet
Little fairy of the forest, The image is dedicated to Brittany Graviet, originally uploaded by photoholic image.
Shine so bright.
Little Fairy,
Show your light.
Little Fairy,
I’m amazed.
Little Fairy,
You seem to blaze.
Little Fairy,
I love your allure.
Little fairy,
You are so pure.
Little fairy,
In case you flee,
Little fairy,
First shine on me.
from Poems By Poet Brittany Graviet.
8/26/2011
A fairy of the forest wishes you all a great Friday and weekend
A fairy of the forest wishes you all a great Friday and weekend, originally uploaded by photoholic image.
However, it doesn't matter what name of flower is. Some lovely flowers bloomed and scattered among trees.
It seems like fairies in the forest.
taken by Olympus Pen E-P3 with Voigtlander Nokton 25mm F0.95
8/25/2011
impression of E-P3
Olympus Pen E-P3 has already been improved a lot compared with E-P1 and E-P2.
Firstly, AF speed was dramatically improved with increasing of focusing area from 11 to 35.
Secondly, newly introduced the organic electroluminescent (EL) based touch-panel-monitor helps us to quick and intuitive operation.
Thirdly, new E-P3 has various art filter functions that stimulate our creativity.
In addition to the above, new powerful image processor provides noiseless image with fineness resolutions as you can see the image uploaded above.
The E-P3 is now evolved into stress-free camera and it reached highest position among the cameras of Micro Four Thirds category.
Firstly, AF speed was dramatically improved with increasing of focusing area from 11 to 35.
Secondly, newly introduced the organic electroluminescent (EL) based touch-panel-monitor helps us to quick and intuitive operation.
Thirdly, new E-P3 has various art filter functions that stimulate our creativity.
In addition to the above, new powerful image processor provides noiseless image with fineness resolutions as you can see the image uploaded above.
The E-P3 is now evolved into stress-free camera and it reached highest position among the cameras of Micro Four Thirds category.
8/23/2011
taller than any other
This is the tallest one among three millions of sunflowers planted in a rice field lying fallow located in the Mashiko, Tochigi Pref. Japan. The sunflowers festival is held in mid-August every year in Mashiko Town.
just fit for your display???
This is a part of sunflower field where three millions of sunflowers are planted in a paddy field lying fallow in Mashiko, Tochigi-Pref., Japan.
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