One Fine Day
Absence makes the heart miss fresh wallpapers, isn’t that right? So what have I been up to lately? I have been focusing my precious personal time recently into mixing down and ordering things for an album of original music which I hope to release at the end of the month. Its a passion project, just like this one, and something that I have been putting together for a few months now. More on that soon enough.
I am still without a day to day digital camera in my life. A situation I find depressing when I let myself dwell on it too long. After my X-Pro died and my precious 5D went missing, possibly stolen actually, I have been really down about photography lately. Down but not out.
I have been doing research on what it will cost to buy a new digital camera so I don’t have to keep borrowing one of YoungDoo’s so often. If your curious, at the moment I am considering at a Sony A7II, a body I’m not too crazy about but a sensor that I think will suit me well, paired with a manual Voigtlander M-Mount lens on an adaptor. Then when Im able, I will pick up an old Leica body as well so I can swap from digital to film with the same familiar lens. A least thats the idea. May not end up the direction I go but it’s what Im leaning toward.
I have also gotten my enlarger out, ordered some fresh chemicals and photo paper and made darkroom prints for Aprils Print Club which I am excited about. Thats about it for the 50ft update.
The photo here is another from my Koyoto trip. I loved the endless charm found down so many streets and took quite a few one-point perspective shots like this along the way that I will probably continue to share because I love them so much. Links below, thanks for stopping by, and I will see you again soon!
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No camera? I think I would be terribly sad, even though I hardly seem to have time for daily photography nowadays.
Makes me do a thought exercise as to what I would do if my main camera bodies and lenses were unavailable. I’d use my backup backup camera, a 9-year-old Nikon D300 – and I think I’d be perfectly fine.
If I didn’t have even that? I don’t really know. Maybe find a cheap, gently-used Nikon DSLR somewhere.
Any idea what the reed structures that line up along the base of so many of the walls are for?
Thats a good question and I wondered of their significance myself. I’m not sure if its purely decorative or if they have a practical function, I’m inclined to think that they must serve some function!
I posted the questions to my friend ArchAtlas:
http://archatlas.net/post/160789523663
In the notes, someone replies with:
The curved bamboo shields are called inu-yarai, which literally means “dog fence.” They’re meant to keep dogs (and other entities and natural forces) from fouling the walls with less, uh, savory fluids.
Oh wow, thats pretty interesting. Thanks for the update!