The Park By My Apartment
Since I have started taking LOTS more photos, I have reached a dilemma regarding displaying them on my site. For a few days there, amidst the euphoria of having a new camera, I was interested in getting cool looking shots, and then displaying the coolest of the cool on my site.
Today however, I spent the day walking through a park nearby my apartment.
When I got home, I went through the photos and left out all the ones that didn't look "cool". There would be none left to put on the site. I started to realize then that was getting carried away. My site is not supposed to be a photography site, so I don't have to have good photos. What I noticed when I started leaving photos out, was that the story was missing big parts. Even if the photo is kind of blurry, I took it for a reason, because I thought it was interesting... and each photo I took lead to me taking the next photo. They are all connected in a timeline of my walk through the park, and they all follow a certain thread. If I leave too many out, the story of my day had huge gaps. There are so many poor quality photos that I still want to add because I was excited about the subject, or found it interesting (obviously or I wouldn't have taken the photo)
So then maybe I should just put them all up... but that's like if I write about the fact that my shoelace broke today. Too much crap will dilute the non-crap. (then there's the problem of uploading 100 MB / day to the site)
I haven't figured it out yet, and I am not uploading every photo I took today, but I may be uploading too many. For me the story is incomplete, for the viewer (especially on a 24k modem like my mom) the story may be too detailed. Hopefully I'll figure it out soon.
In the mean time, please enjoy the photos from today. If your sharp you may notice the same old themes... birds, and people painting. This time I have a little more time so I have added some commentary.
Once again, click on "more".
I know I know, there are enough cherry blossom photos on Japan blogs... but I am just amazed at how blue the sky looksi n this shot. Yes, I'm very simple minded.
The door fetish rears it's head again. This time I'm a little more pleased with the results.
All these photos are from a huge park a couple minutes from my apartment. I hardly ever go there though, and I sure never noticed this great looking canteen. Next sunny weekend I'm packing up my painting gear and going there to down a few beers, hang out with the oji-sans (old men) and paint.
The Yaki-imo man drives his beat-up old truck around town selling sweet potatoes cooked in his fire pit. It all looks very low tech, so I always assumed he is an old man living in an old house with no electricity... until we started talking about digital cameras and found out that he knows more than I ever will...
As you know by now, I have a fascination with people painting outdoors. With any luch though, tomorrow will be clear and sunny, and it will be me painting with some friends in Fujino. Anyone is welcome... we leave at 9:30.
