Before getting to the main part of this one, a picture of a man practicing the trumpet.
And now for something which in no way resembles that which came before it.
The first Sunday of the month is usually when Nagoya's parkour crew bust out their moves, and yesterday was no different. It was, however, incredibly hot, and the traceurs (to give them their correct name; I presume that female parkour athletes would be traceuses, but I don't really know) were saving their energy in between moves. Don't blame them at all.
Nevertheless, moves were busted and photos were taken. Again, the Merrill is in no way a sports camera, but that just makes the challenge that much more fun.
Then the light got really good
Of course, light of that quality doesn't hang around. A few shots and it was gone.
That was the last of the parkour shots for the day, but I noticed that up in the sky were some quite awesome clouds. I've never made a conscious decision to shoot clouds, but after regularly reading Ming Thein's excellent photo blog, I figured that it was time to start. He has a thing about clouds, and he's a very good photographer. Check out his blog.
Anyway. Clouds.
The dynamic range on this one was too much for even the combined power of the Merrill and Photoshop, so it became a b/w. Even then I needed a pretty major curves adjustment to get some detail in the foreground trees.
If I take a certain route home, I pass by Nagoya's city hall. It's not the most impressive building in the world, but it's nice enough. What is impressive, though, is when The Light makes a curtain call and you have Photomatix on your computer.
Lastly, the sky on fire
Thanks for looking. Hoping to make the next post a collection of shots taken of sumo wrestling, shot with Ilford Delta 3200 on a 40 year old film camera with a non-working meter. Apparently, Delta 3200 isn't really ISO 3200 but it has an unusually high latitude for exposure. I shot it at 1600 (which is as high as my camera's ASA meter will go), metered with my iPod, and hoped for the best. Going to take the film in to get developed soon, and I have no idea whatsoever how it's going to turn out!
