Took pictures of these two signs relatively close together while wandering around Kyoto one day a while ago before I started geo-encoding everything, so all I am left with is the geographically context-less images themselves and an unfortunate predilection for run-on sentences.
Genbo asked me how to read this sign when he saw me preparing this post. He is now very enthusiastic about reading, and he can read most hiragana and katakana in Japanese. All that leaves him with are two-thousand odd kanji. Anyway, when I answered that I couldn’t read it (no one this century can!), he looked up at me sweetly and said “Daddy, can’t you read Japanese?”
It says, “You’re lucky I don’t wring your scrawny neck!”
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Last weekend I went on my first model shoot ever. I’ve mentioned here before that I belong to a photographer’s group here in Kyoto. Every odd month they meet to critique each other’s work, and every even month to go shoot something. I usually don’t go on the even months because I don’t like sacrificing Sundays with my family, but I just couldn’t resist this one time because it was an outdoor nude model shoot. They have a few different models who do this sort of thing for the group (and the sensei in particular, who is very well known), and it was the first time I was able to tag along.
The model was both very nice and very skilled. Skilled as in, being able to stand on a rock in a freezing cold river in various stages of undress for long periods of time and not complain nor lose concentration. She didn’t look cold, even though she had to be, especially when the sensei went and doused her with river water.
I have a lot more photos from this day I want to share (even that are suitable for a family blog), but the sensei asked me not to post more than this for now. A few people from the group are going to be using these photos for competitions, and he didn’t want me to “give away” the model and location before that. I was going to stress that this blog isn’t exactly frequented by the Japanese photography elite, but it wasn’t worth belaboring the point.
(Update: Upon looking at this post again, these photos also illustrate what a great firetrucking lens the 70-200 is. Couldn’t have gotten these shots with anything else.)
