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Peaceful field

January 20, 2010
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Near my apartment there is a large area filled with rice fields. It’s a relatively peaceful and quiet area, so is fairly popular with residents as an area to “get away from the city”, or at least pretend we are getting away. When the rice plants grow up but before the rice starts coming out [...]

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iphone photos

January 5, 2010

Once again, sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been studying Japanese pretty hard-core lately. When I get in these study modes, I try to avoid all English and unfortunately that means this blog too.
Anyways, quick update. I’ve recently been taking a lot more photos with my iphone. I’m attracted to the iphone camera [...]

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leaves at sunset

December 10, 2009

leaves at sunset, originally uploaded by JapanDave.

Yes, more fall leaves. Here in Okazaki we don’t have any huge places for seeing the leaves, but we do have a lot of small ones. I wanted to catch the ginkgo tree here. The ginkgo tree leaves turn this solid wonderfully bright yellow color. Combined with the blazing [...]

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Colorful leaves

December 6, 2009

Colorful leaves

Higashi Park a few weeks ago when the Momiji (Japanese Maples) were just beginning to turn. I intentionally blurred the leaves a bit in photoshop so that you wouldn’t be distracted by the detail of them in this photo and would instead enjoy the color of everything mixed together.
If you want a larger version, [...]

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New photo page

December 5, 2009

Small update. I added a new photo page to the blog. You should see the link on the navigation bar up there (right next to the “JapanDave” title). Right now I simply have my 30 most recent flickr images on it. You can click on each one for a larger pop-up — kind of a [...]

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