happylife

To Take a Picture with a Doll

When we travel we usually have a camera and often take pictures. The more popular digital cameras have become, the more pictures we take because we don't take care of their film cost any more. We are happy enough to take any pictures we like, however, our pictures are mostly dull. They are almost same -- when we visit a tourist spot, we take pictures of the specialty over there from the same camera spot with the same angle. Most of such pictures are not better than the advertising picture which was taken by a professional cameraman. We sometimes take pictures of our family or friends at the tourist spot, but they are dull, too. Who can enjoy the pictures of ordinary people with the same say-cheese smile and V-shaped fingers? When I was traveling around the Sulfur Mountain the other day, I found this woman taking a picture of something odd. It was a stuffed cat. She may write a travel photo blog with the doll. I think it's a good idea because the picture will become more unique and get to have a story in itself. It's also good from the point of photo framing because the cat will make the photo more three-dimensional. It's a good idea, but I won't do the same thing because I don't like myself looked like Mr.Bean.

From South To North

This picture depicts my GPS tracking in the last couple of weeks. After watching the total eclipse of the sun on the Tokara Islands -- actually and unfortunately all I could see was the sun not hidden by the moon but covered with thick clouds -- I traveled up through the islands of Japan from Tokara via Tokyo to Kushiro. The temperature has come down more than ten degrees and it is way more comfortable here for me. I'm in really cool and calm conditions both in weather and mental. I can't believe that the hot and hard cruising days seeking for the special astronomical show were less than two weeks ago. I remember that someone once mentioned about a law in which the further we travel, the longer time elapsed we feel even if the actual time is not so long. I'm thinking about staying here for months and not moving around so much. If the law is true, the long days might feel shorter.